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Full Sail
Galway Bay Brewery
- From:
- Galway Bay Brewery
- Ireland
- Style:
- American IPA
Ranked #1,933 - ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- 87
Ranked #15,966 - Avg:
- 3.89 | pDev: 8.48%
- Reviews:
- 11
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 17, 2023
- Added:
- Nov 08, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 20
The simple malt bill gives an ABV of 5.8% which carries the flavour and really allows the hops to shine through. The hops used are of American origin, Colombus, El Dorado and Cascade (45 IBU). With multiple generous additions in the kettle and further dry hopped before it reaches you as fresh as it can be!
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Reviewed by aleigator from Germany
4.08/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.08/5 rDev +4.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Yields a clouded golden color with a huge, stable white head atop.
Aromas on this produce layers of passion fruit, papaya and lime pulp among caramel malts and orange zest.
Got a light and refreshing, well balanced and thirst quenching mouthfeel to it, together with a perfectly fitting, higher carbonation level.
Tastes of ripe oranges, bitter limes, resinous, toffeeish zest and exotic fruit sorbet to establish a pleasant complexity. Turns a little sweeter then with lemon wrapped toffee, lighter caramel and lusciuos passion fruit. Finishes with maintaining, lingering bitter limes, a rustic, grainy and resinous malt backbone, as well as playfully integrated papaya, topped off by a clean, bitter and abrupt finish.
This is great fun, well brewed and got a nice balance to it.
May 13, 2022Aromas on this produce layers of passion fruit, papaya and lime pulp among caramel malts and orange zest.
Got a light and refreshing, well balanced and thirst quenching mouthfeel to it, together with a perfectly fitting, higher carbonation level.
Tastes of ripe oranges, bitter limes, resinous, toffeeish zest and exotic fruit sorbet to establish a pleasant complexity. Turns a little sweeter then with lemon wrapped toffee, lighter caramel and lusciuos passion fruit. Finishes with maintaining, lingering bitter limes, a rustic, grainy and resinous malt backbone, as well as playfully integrated papaya, topped off by a clean, bitter and abrupt finish.
This is great fun, well brewed and got a nice balance to it.
Reviewed by misteil from Ireland
3.81/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.81/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
look: extremely pale, straw yellow, medium bubbly head with good retention.
smell: fruity, mango, papaya, lemon and orange, also getting a lil white chocolate in there, but not too fragrant for an ipa.
taste: well, it’s not an exactly an explosion of flavour, it’s rather mild and subtle with its fruity flavours and hops but there is a hop bitterness on the finish which is also rather metallic tasting. not bad, not exceptional.
feel: medium bodied, medium carbonation, somewhat dry, drinkable.
overall: this is, undoubtably, a beer, and that’s about it.
edit 07/11/2020
was a bit too harsh on this first time round, this is a decent ipa, mustn’t have had a fresh bottle, nice fruit flavours, big wallop of bitterness on the finish, has a nice body to it, very drinkable.
Apr 04, 2020smell: fruity, mango, papaya, lemon and orange, also getting a lil white chocolate in there, but not too fragrant for an ipa.
taste: well, it’s not an exactly an explosion of flavour, it’s rather mild and subtle with its fruity flavours and hops but there is a hop bitterness on the finish which is also rather metallic tasting. not bad, not exceptional.
feel: medium bodied, medium carbonation, somewhat dry, drinkable.
overall: this is, undoubtably, a beer, and that’s about it.
edit 07/11/2020
was a bit too harsh on this first time round, this is a decent ipa, mustn’t have had a fresh bottle, nice fruit flavours, big wallop of bitterness on the finish, has a nice body to it, very drinkable.
Reviewed by JonnyGoldsbrough from England
3.89/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.89/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Full sail IPA 5.8% - American style IPA (bottle)
L4 - good head, but foamy. Classic light IPA
S3.5 - subtle citrus
T4 - Light citrus notes
F4.25 - great fizz, lively, decent body
O4 - not massive flavour profile but very enjoyable
Dec 29, 2018L4 - good head, but foamy. Classic light IPA
S3.5 - subtle citrus
T4 - Light citrus notes
F4.25 - great fizz, lively, decent body
O4 - not massive flavour profile but very enjoyable
Reviewed by Georgiabeer from Georgia
3.99/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A solid, fresh tasting IPA. Grassy, fruity, a tiny bit grainy, and quite fresh tasting from the bottle. Straw colored with a rough head reminiscent of that on a real ale. Enjoyed on a back patio in Dublin on a warm summer evening.
Jul 03, 2018
Full Sail from Galway Bay Brewery
Beer rating:
87 out of
100 with
55 ratings
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