Full Sail
Galway Bay Brewery

Copenhagen 17/10 2025. 44 cl can from Kihoskh, Sønder Boulevard, Kbh. V. Blue can with golden gills and clouds. Maritime.

Pours unclear, almost opaque, pale yellow with a very big white head. Stable and fluffy. Settles as a 1 cm thick layer of foam obscuring the surface of the beer. Crawling up the sides of the glass..Moderate lacing.

Aroma is fairly intense with a light sweet odor of ripe stone fruits mingling with a stronger citric scent. Sweet peach and apricot. Citrus and lime. Whiff of pine trees.

Light carbonation. Slightly thick, oily, soft, lightly tingling texture.

Flavor is fairly intense with a medium strong sweetness followed by a strong citric bitterness. Aftertaste is bitter. Lingers for a while. Finish is rather dry.

Full sail on the ship loaded with hops.

 

RB transfer

 

 

Pours clear straw. Good head-retention on mine.

The smell is less pronounced than most American IPAs, and so is the taste. A very light IPA, but still bitter and grassy. There’s also a little metallic note.

Great malt/hop balance anyway.

Canned in a little tallboy crafty craft can and purchased from the indie wine shop from the nook
Pours a clear golden body with white head
Aroma is pear and golden syrup and grapefruit

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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.