Full Throttle
Sebago Brewing Company in Gorham, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.71
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Full Throttle Double IPA is our biggest beer yet with ton’s of hops and malt. Our Double IPA is a beautiful deep amber in color. It has a big lacey head and huge hop aroma. Full Throttle is eye-crossingly hoppy and weighs in at 8% ABV Please be advised that this beer is not for the faint of heart. It is for people who like intense hop flavor balanced with a bold maltiness and warm alcohol. We first wort hop with Chinook and blend Centennial and Cascade in the Aroma addition and finish with Centennial.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
12 oz. bottle. Cloudy amber/ orange color with thin lasting head. Aroma shows pine and resinous hops, mild malt underneath.
The malt is sweet bread and sweet grain upfront with a solid amount of pine and floral hops showing through in the finish. The bitterness is rather long in duration. Average body and dry resin dryness Weak citrus notes, this was bottled a few months ago, that being said, it is a solid Dipa.
The malt is sweet bread and sweet grain upfront with a solid amount of pine and floral hops showing through in the finish. The bitterness is rather long in duration. Average body and dry resin dryness Weak citrus notes, this was bottled a few months ago, that being said, it is a solid Dipa.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Nov 2014
at 10:46
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Reviewed from notes. This was poured into a snifter, a tulip and a chalice several times when I lived in Maine. It always looks, smells and tastes the same.
The appearance was a gentle hazy semi - dark red color with some light orange highlights tinting the sides of the glass. The head was small and quickly dissipated within less than thirty seconds. The lacing was kinda messy.
The smell had some broken or separated aroma of bitter to sweet oranges, tangerines and grapefruits. No matter how many times I’ve ever had this, I could never say \"bittersweet\" as an adjective to directly describe the full content of the entire aroma.
The taste was basically the same.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation seemed to be scaled back than most DIPA’s I’ve had.
Overall, I always have thought that there were better DIPA’s on the market when I first had this and continue to stick with this statement.
The appearance was a gentle hazy semi - dark red color with some light orange highlights tinting the sides of the glass. The head was small and quickly dissipated within less than thirty seconds. The lacing was kinda messy.
The smell had some broken or separated aroma of bitter to sweet oranges, tangerines and grapefruits. No matter how many times I’ve ever had this, I could never say \"bittersweet\" as an adjective to directly describe the full content of the entire aroma.
The taste was basically the same.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation seemed to be scaled back than most DIPA’s I’ve had.
Overall, I always have thought that there were better DIPA’s on the market when I first had this and continue to stick with this statement.
Tried
on 10 Jul 2014
at 23:56
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottle. Muddy light. Rown, white edge head. Aroma of pine cleaner. Tasteis bitter lemon.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2012
at 14:43
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
12oz bottle from AirForceHops
Appearance: Hazy orange/amber with a medium sized white head and some lacing
Aroma: Fruity and sweet caramel
Taste: Fruity, grapefruit and bitted pine resin
A nice DIPA, easy drinking and bitter hops.
Appearance: Hazy orange/amber with a medium sized white head and some lacing
Aroma: Fruity and sweet caramel
Taste: Fruity, grapefruit and bitted pine resin
A nice DIPA, easy drinking and bitter hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2011
at 13:52
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle: Poured a cloudy dirty beige/amber color ale with a large frothy head with good retention and some very good lacing. Aroma of citrus hops is dominating with notes of caramel malt. Taste is a nice mix between some citrus hops with a nice bitter edge and some deep malt with limited sweetness. Body is full like I don’t see very often with limited filtration and good carbonation with no signs of alcohol. Very well brewed and quite enjoyable though doesn’t standout from the myriad of IIPA out there.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2010
at 19:27
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A light amber ale with a thin lacing white head. In aroma, more fragrant hops than the IPA, lightly floral, pleasant but light. In mouth, good caramel malt with pinhey hops, oily mouthfeel, quite nice and herbaceous. On tap at Portland location, April 2 2010.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Apr 2010
at 17:52
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to porterhouse. Picture sent in to be uploaded. Bottled 02.05.09. Pours with a muddy brown body with a creamy bone colored head on top. Great retention and lace, despite the not too beautiful hue. Aroma of citrus, caramel, grass and light rotting fruits. Slight perfume and citrus. Taste is malt first, followed by citrus and sharp bitterness at the back end. Longish duration. Viscous mouthfeel, light bubbles. Something in the malt bill didn’t sit right to me. Yes the hops were a bit faded, but there was a sort of rotting orange flavor that I dislike (and am not use to with C-Hops, plus the Simcoe that my bottle claims).
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2009
at 01:26
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
@CBC-on tap-pours an off white head with bubbles and copper color. Aroma is herbal/pine hops, secondary medium malt. Taste is pine/resin hops with some bite, secondary medium malt with some off setting sweet. OK carbonation. Medium body.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 May 2009
at 09:28
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours deep amber into a snifter. Off-white head with no retention recedes to hug rim leaving no lacing. Sweet pine, resin and grapefruit aromas. Thick with sharp resin and sweet caramel upfront. Lasting grapefruit finish.
Tried
on 09 Mar 2009
at 20:39
6.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
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.
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.
Tried
on 07 Nov 2007
at 20:48