Sebago Full Throttle Double IPA

Draught snifter at Bukowski’s Cambridge on 10/18/07
Really nice appearance, about as much as you could ask for. Crystal clear bronze-golden with a two-finger white head that is well-retained and leaves light lacing.
I swear though, sometimes conditioning (or filtration) dosent cut it. As in the Charlevoix Triple IPA, this one looks to be in perfect shape, but still comes up somewhat muted by blandness. I don’t know what it was in the Charlevoix and I dont know what it is here, but despite a good start from the hop aromatics, it ends on a rather bland, kind of doughy note. Fruity and not too overdone with citrus and resin, it nonetheless ends too soon. Lemon-lime hop acids, and honey malts are soft, and the bitterness dosent attack the nose. Alcohol well-concealed, but the more it breathes, the more the hops recede and fall in to a doughy-sweet pale maltiness. Some minerals are heavy (relatively speaking) on the finish, and probably stem from the water (all the beers in Maine have a strong house water character).
Snappy orange and lime open up the flavor, but the malts are a bit soft and too soon is the crispness gone, with doughy-sweet sugars and sagging carbonation in their place. I’m exaggerating the effect of the doughiness/sweetness, and it isn’t a bad beer, with lots of straight up C-hop flavor and bitterness, but I don’t see anything unique or particularly interesting, and it does end watery and loose, and too sweet. No flaws or alcohol, however.

Finally got to try this at the GLB and my god it’s awesome. Smells like cascades tastes like cascades and has a perfect amount of bitterness :) Well built sebago, I never expected something this good! Get this if you can find it if you’re a hophead. It’s not overly complex at all...just a pretty straightforward and delicious brew.

On tap at Great Lost Bear in Portland, Maine--Poured a burnished bronze copper amber. Sprite, clear body. Large white lacing. Significant white lacing. Malty, nutty, grassy, and piny nose and flavor. Aggressively muscular and cloying was this resinous, grapefruity brew.

Draught. At portland brew pub two days ago. got the very last 5 oz taster in the keg. ffine head. citrus notes but the flavor of alcohol come through a bit. i preferred the red ale. the stout was the real winner of the stock order.

(Draught) Sampled at the brewpub in South Portland, ME, on April 15, 2006. Lasting medium, creamy white head with a clear, non-carbonated deep copper body. Nose is of the unforgetable Hi-C hops of the West Coast. Good flavour, mildly creamy with a biting tartness in the finish. As... beer with flavour!