Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Pours clear amber with tan head. The aroma is roasted malts, nuttiness and caramel. The taste has nice roasted maltiness moving into nuttiness and then earthiness. It ends with plenty of caramel notes and more nuttiness. Pretty nice tasting brown.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
@CBC–22oz bottle-pours a light tan ring for a head and brown color. Aroma is roasty, sweet dark malt-chocolate/toffee, some earthy. Taste is roasty, sweet dark malt-chocolate/toffee, equal earthy/spice hops which the malt doesn’t quite hold up.
jcwattsrugger (14787) reviewed Full Throttle from Sebago Brewing Company 16 years ago
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.
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.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours deep black into a snifter. Fluffy mocha head pancakes and tophats as it slowly recedes. Chocolate and hop aromas. Sweet and sharp upfront with dark caramel, roasted oatmeal and chocolate. Lasting cocoa finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thanks to decaturstevo for sharing this one. Tall, lasting white head over a clear gold body. Perfumy floral hop aroma. Slightly metallic bitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz bottle-pours a rich off white head and yellow/gold color. Aroma is citrus/pine, medium malt. Taste is citrus/pine-slight bitter/dry, medium malt-caramel. OK/mild carbonation. Thanks Doug & Joy for bringing this one back.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Pours deep brown into a shaker. Nice tan head with good retention slowly recedes to coat surface. Sour flat caramel from front to back.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours amber into a shaker. Head quickly recedes leaving spot lacing. Mild resin aromas. Grapefruit from front to back with a lasting dry resin finish.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Full Throttle from Sebago Brewing Company 18 years ago
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.