Full Sail Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in
Hood River,
Oregon,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 1987
Contact
Description
The reason Jamie Emmerson and Irene Firmat started Full Sail in the first place was to build a company that was completely different from the ones where we’d previously worked. It wasn’t about business as usual. It was about finding our calling in life — about truly appreciating our “human resources,” and balancing work, life, family and friends in a way that makes life truly worth living.
Determined to make world-class beer in our own backyard, one of our first, and perhaps best, decisions was to invest in new, state-of-the-art brewing equipment. So we bit the bullet, laid down our borrowed cash, and spent the better part of 1987 installing the new system. Our love for the environment is what drives our sustainable practices, so pure water, local ingredients and responsible processes are poured into each and every tasty pint.
Determined to make world-class beer in our own backyard, one of our first, and perhaps best, decisions was to invest in new, state-of-the-art brewing equipment. So we bit the bullet, laid down our borrowed cash, and spent the better part of 1987 installing the new system. Our love for the environment is what drives our sustainable practices, so pure water, local ingredients and responsible processes are poured into each and every tasty pint.
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 ounce bottle. Pours a clear orange hue with a medium white head. A light toast and malty nose. Sweet, fresh hops, light lemons. Almost a pils malt. Light, easygoing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2019
at 06:44
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
12 ounce bottle from a mixed 12 pack. Pours a clear orange hue with a large white head. A light fruity nose. Soft, perfume, the flavor is quite juicy, soft as hell palate, light resin. This is pretty good. Surprisingly good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2019
at 04:11
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 ounce bottle from Albertsons. Hazy, milky poor with a one finger fluffy head. Aroma is milky with a hint of vanilla. More lacto notes in the taste, Touch of orange peel and a bit more of the vanilla.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2019
at 00:59
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Not bad, more of a normal juicy IPA than a malted milkshake-inspired one, with strong veins of grapefruit, berry, pine, passion fruit, and resin backed up by a nuanced vanilla-tinged sweetness and a fair amount of bitterness on the back end. The subtlety with the vanilla is appreciated; ice cream notes flit around the periphery instead of turning the brew into a sugary, dessert IPA nightmare. Still, it comes across more generic than anything, a good IPA in a market full of amazing ones.
Tried
on 10 Aug 2019
at 23:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pretty impressive for them to develop an ultrasonic infusion method just to make a pretty regular-degular IPA. I like it when overly complicated processes are employed to create standard, if pretty good, fare, so kudos, Atomizer! Nothing amazing here, but also nothing to complain about; deep veins of pine, resin, dank, grapefruit, and lemon zest lead to a clingy bitterness on the back end. Mild notes of honey, caramel, and toast come from the malts. Not a bad IPA by any means, but the highfalutin brewing process does seem silly.
Tried
on 09 Aug 2019
at 22:48
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2019
at 13:20
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tap at OBF 2019. Pours hazy gold with a white head. Aroma of citrus, lactose and mixed fruits. Med body. Flavor is lactose and very mixed fruits. Reasonably dry. Decently bitter. Nice for the style.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Jul 2019
at 21:26
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from the local Grocery Outlet. Pours light bright gold with a foamy white head. Aroma of breadiness, light citrus and possibly rye spice. Med body - not quite. Crisp/clean, but not a lot of hop or bitter, and not a lot of rye. There's rye tho. Reasonably dry. I think the rye saves it.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Jul 2019
at 00:04
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Stubby bottle picked up at the state store. Pours clear light golden with a small off-white head, light lacing. Doughy, straw, honey and grains, sulfer. Ok
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2019
at 02:25
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Jun 2019
at 18:41