Elevation (2011)
Full Sail Brewing Company in Hood River, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.84
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle at John’s house. Pours gold. White head. Nose/taste of citrus, pineapple, apple skin and caramel malt. Muted. Dryish finish. Lighter body for an imperial. More like an IPA and a 1/2.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a bright orange amber with a nice white head. Aroma is kinda weak, but what’s there is nice. It’s mostly pineapple, lemons and pine resin. Some biscuity malt. Taste is mildly sweet with a kinda bland bitter finish. It’s not terrible, but there’s a cheap malty quality to the beer - sort of a musty grain note that you normally see in macro stuff but I’ve noted it before in other FS beers. Mouthfeel is sudsy with some nice hop oiliness, but it gets a bit watery in the middle. Decent but nothing special.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours deep amber into a Sam glass. Off-white head with excellent retention recedes to coat surface leaving spot lacing. Citrus and pine aromas. Sweet dark caramel upfront turning to bitter resin before a lasting grapefruit finish.
TBone (30139) reviewed Elevation (2011) from Full Sail Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Draught@McCormicks&Schmick’s, Portland
Clear amber color, small white head. Tropical fruity aroma (kiwi, pineapple) with some pine needles thrown in. Medium-bodied. Flavor is a bit different than the aroma: sticky, bitter hoppyness, piney and some citrus. OK.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Elevation (2011) from Full Sail Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
On tap at PIB, pours hazy copper with a small off-white head. Aroma is intensely citrusy hoppy; harsh bitterness / very one-sided. Flavour is very one-sided as well on the hops; pretty sharp with no malt balance. Not so well-made to be honest. The hops are almost stale and very hash (not in a good way, this coming from a IIPA lover). Drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
I’m not always a fan of the hoppy beers Full Sail produces, but they did a fair job here - hazy orange pour - soapy lace - malt in the aroma is equal parts sweet and biscuit - the citra hops really pop in the nose, adding a bunch of fresh citrus character - bracingly bitter up front, with the cascade really coming through - sweet crystal malts comes from behind that, but doesn’t hang around to long - dries out pretty well, becoming very Biscuity, which works well with the second punch of hops on the tail end - a lot of citrus and peppery character in the finish - pretty good, especially for the price.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
22oz bottle pours a clear, copper amber with a creamy, white head. Nose is a little mild for a double IPA, grapefruit, a little malt, a little lemon zest. Flavor is orange, grapefruit, a little caramel, light lemon. Full bodied, lightly bitter finish.