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 - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
’03 Bottle Pours a hazy golden/redish amber with a medium off-white head that leaves coarse spotty lacing. Aroma is of cirtus, apricot, mild malts, old oak, and a little alcohol. Flavor is hopy and fruity. Orange and pineapple. The 10% is not so noticable at first and the relatively high carbonation is lively but not overpowering. Feel is very smooth and finish is pretty easy with a little hopy bite. An easy to drint "big beer" that I’m sure will sneak up on me.
Silphium (4310) reviewed Amber Ale from Full Sail Brewing Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On tap at Koji Osakaya (Lloyd Center), Portland. Sampled 5 August 2004. Relatively clear orange-brown body with a thin off-white head. Grassy, medium hops aroma with notes of caramel. Rich caramel, fruit, toast, and brown sugar dominate the body which finishes with grassy hops fading to bitterness. This is what a good Amber Ale should be.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle Pours a medium reddish brown with only a small frothy head quickly dispersing and leaving very little lacing. Dark roasted, malty aroma. Flavor is again a dark roated, nutty, with a good Cascade hops zing. Aftertaset is a bit heavy on the bitters, but fades fast leaving a clean fresh palate. A fair Amber.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
2003 bottling. A hazy, orange-red barleywine with a heavy emphasis on sweet malts, this beer has a candy-like mouthfeel with brown sugar and caramel interplaying with candied fruits, balanced by grapefruity hops (which remain nicely subtle), a piney finish, and alcohol presence. The rather light aroma offers the same attributes. Not too thick-bodied but still sticky, this would be the perfect accompaniment, in a snifter, to a nice after-dinner cigar. What does Old Boardhead compare to? It reminds me a bit of two Dogfish Head beers- Immort Ale and 120 Minute IPA, without the peat of the former and the very strong hopping/alcohol of the latter. Nice beer.
Silphium (4310) reviewed Hopocity from Full Sail Brewing Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
2004 bottling. There isn’t too much to write home about here- this is very standard fare. Has a clear golden body, topped by a thin off-white head. Aroma of piney hops. Flavor is standard pine and citrus hops mingling with toasty, lightly caramely malt. Nothing unique. The body is oily and very thin. Why bother when there are so many other better examples of the style?
Clarkvv (16327) reviewed Hopocity from Full Sail Brewing Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
2004 bottle. The color jumped out at me right away as being quite warm and rosy for an APA. Not the typical straw-yellow, but a nice reddish-orange, burnished copper, lightly hazy, with small little sediment pieces suspended well throughout the beer. Good white head sticks around. Aroma of hops, floral and dry, lightly bready and papery, some hints of orange. Flavor is much the same, very hoppy, bitter, juicy. I will agree with TannerTavernboys that the flavors didnt quite match the aroma. My biggest complaint was the relative lack of complexity. Even after letting it warm fully, it just seemed like another highly hopped beer. Not a tremendous amount of malt, light caramel at most. Medium body, some wateriness. Not bad, per se, but just kind of boring. Dosent stand out to make me want to buy it again.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Most reviews of this seem to be right on the money - moderate acidity, some phenolic qualities, both of which destroy whatever malt balance it attempts - a touch of apricot - looks, smells and tastes like a watered-down combination of Celebration Ale and Hop Devil - inspires more of a ho-hum than a ho-ho-ho.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Re rate Dec 05: This gets worse every year.Hazy amber,small lasting beige head.Cat pissy hop nose and taste,absolutely no balance. Thin, and fades to a wateriness at the end
Oakes (33097) reviewed Wassail from Full Sail Brewing Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
2007: Hazy dark brown. Piney, spicy herbal, chocolatey...nice complex nose. Creamy body with a herbal/minty signature and a nice chocolate note. Malty, but sessionable.
2003: Dark burgundy colour with a rich, frothy, light brown head. Aroma and palate of chocolate, spruce, cinnamon, mint. Creamy body. Well-balanced. Like a spiced old ale. Thanks TTB! 7 4 7 4 14 = 3.6
JK (8140) reviewed Wassail from Full Sail Brewing Company 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Aromas of hops, malt, and alcohol. Dark brown with some red. no head. appears thin. Flavor of medium bodied hops with a sweet malt finish. Has a very "full sail" taste.
Brewery Stats
| Score | 6.65 |
| Beers | 160 |
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