Full Sail Vesuvius

Brewed by Full Sail Brewing Company
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Hood River, Oregon USA

Pours a clear golden orange color with lots of effervescence and a topping of clear white foam. Aroma is yeasty, flavor is lightly sweet and yeasty bitter. Palate is mediumy and rather pleasant.

Belgian yeast esters in the aroma. Piss golden color (in a good way?) Banana, clove, spice and cyrstal malt flavor profile.

22 oz. bottle- Pours golden with a decent head and perfect lacing, aroma is pepper and other spices. The flavor is mild hops and a very nice pepper spiciness to it. Overall a very good Belgian style Trippel.

Bomber. 2009 vintage. Smells of pepper, grain, faint banana esters. Pours golden with minimal head, mediocre lacing. Peppery taste; somewhat sweet. Ful-bodied with a nice tasty long finish. A bit sour in the aftertaste. Tastes like an American take on a Belgian style, but that’s not a bad thing. I enjoyed this beer quite a bit. Addendum: I had to change the score on this from a 4.0 to 3.7. The beer gets a little watery towards the end of the bottle. Still a fine beer, however.

Pretty good for a Belgian. The banana and clove notes are more subdued than other Belgians. Palate is crisp and bubbly. Tastes a little spicy with a strong hop and alcohol presence. Another good showing from the Brewmaster Reserve.

Bottle from Whole Foods Los Altos. Ramon, the beer guy there, recommended this highly. While I don’t necessarily agree that it was that awesome, it is a bit underrated. Pours a crystal clear light golden color with a quickly dissipating one-finger white head. After that, looks not too dissimilar from a white wine. Aroma is sweet pale malt, Belgian yeast, banana, and spices. Flavor is pale malt, table sugar, yeast, banana, coriander, herbal notes, and a little alcohol. A little sweet and underattenuated for the style, and just a tad boozy. Good though overall. Body is medium-light and palate is rather still, but the long, sweet finish is pretty nice.

2009 Vintage 8.2% ABV 24 IBU’s 22 oz. Bottle Thin mild lace white head.Clear bright pretty rich gold color.Floral Belgian yeast fruit ester mild hop front.Soft mild sweet dry Belgian banana fruit ester thin malt body.Odd earthy mild hop spicy Belgian EtOH end.Rich but unbalanced.Belgian Malt Liquor.

Fizzy, clear golden, frothy lace - nose of dusty, dry, biscuity malts, some phenolic character, light tartness - taste is light, biscuity, flinty. crackery, peppery - some underlying sweetness - I usually like most of these characteristics in a beer, but this is beer is too strong for its light and crisp flavors, because a strong, boozy/alcoholic character dominates in the long term, and the other qualities of the beer are too delicate and/or weak to support this - alcoholic finish, lingering dry malts - meh.