Full Sail Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in Hood River,
Oregon,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 1987
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.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
A clear amber beer with a small off-white head. The aroma is sweet and very hoppy, but also with some off-notes like detergent. The flavor is sweet hoppy with notes of prunes and loads of hay, leading to a dry hoppy end.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle Pours a clear light amber. Massive white foamy creamy head. Modest piney sweet hops aroma. Expected a more robust punch in this dept. Flavor has more of that bite i was loking for. Sweet light maltiness and fairly soft carbonation. Lots a sharp bittter aftertaste. Like that white stuff under the grapefruit skin.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle Pours a clear dark copper color. Very small tan head and thin lacing. Plenty of rich malty woody flavors balanced fairly well by moderate citrusy hops. Fairly acidic bitter notes as well. Feel is fairly heavy and rich. Lingering woody aftertaste and some hops bitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle Pours a deep dark mahogany with a dense light tan head. Rich heavy dark pitted fruit aromas Cherry, plum, apples. Complex. Flavors are dark, woody notes of raisons and a fairly strong alchol taste. Bitterness at the end is more of a tannin sharpness than typical hops. A hefty brew with a full smooth feel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle Pours a clear light amber with a full off white head. Aromas of sweet, light grain, honey and malt. Not much hops. Flavor is mild, light malts and a well balanced hop profile. Feel is quite smooth and rich and goes down easy. Leaves a fairly bitter taste after and the carbonation is moderate. Tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle Pours a bright clear orange/amber with a thick creamy off white head. Lots of clinging lacing. Aroma is an up-front hops but tamed or subdued a bit with a wody malty sweetness. Flavors are a fairly strong but ballanced hops and malt medley. Tasty and refreshing. It works for me
Lubiere (24390) reviewed Amber Ale from Full Sail Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Orange amber with a thick light moka head. Sweet caramel in aroma,with yeasty notes. A tad oxidized. Sweet malt with woody nutty notes, but definitely oxidized. Light hops and buttescotch coming in finish. Medium bodied. Bought in Summer 2004, SF.
Oakes (33097) reviewed Slipknot from Full Sail Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Golden-amber colour. Minimal aroma, but a little pineyness. The flavour is woody, the body chewy. For the style, it’s a on the lighter side, which I prefer, but flavour development suffers as well.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Thanks to Bück Dich for this trade. This started with the disappearance of a small head of fizzy white. Hazy amber color with an orange tint. Pleasant light caramel aroma that repeated in the flavor and followed through to the finish. Nothing really great of bad here, an average amber. Needs more hops to be called an Pale Ale.
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Wassail from Full Sail Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On draught January 2005 at Redbones. Dark, near black pour, with some large bubbles and fizzy off-white head that disipates rapidly. Looks like a glass of coke. Aroma of dry toffee and caramel, licorice and light English hops. Begins flavorful and hoppy, but not in an extreme, American, bitter way. Notes of licorice root, caramel and light roast. Medium body, moderate carbonation. Good balance here, not too sweet or too bitter and the spiciness is not overdone. Some wateriness on the finish detracts a bit. I’m a big fan of Full sail after only having two of their beers thus far. Tough to categorize these Winter Warmers. Some are ales, some are old ales and some are English Strong Ales. I like ’em all though. I’d like to mull this one.
Brewery Stats
| Score | 6.65 |
| Beers | 160 |
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