Full Circle
Autodidact Beer

Pours a hazy orange gold with two fingers of soft white head. Aroma leans citrus with a bready backbone. Taste follows with balanced hop brightness, mild bitterness, and a subtle malt sweetness. Mouthfeel is smooth, medium-bodied, with a clean, slightly dry finish.

 

Poured a hazy harvest straw color from a pint can, picked up at their tap room, into a Dogfish Head nonic pint glass with a finger high eggshell white head that settled to a cap and left a descent amount of fine lacing. Floral aromas along with tropical & stone fruit and soft grassy tones in the background. Bitterness prevails along with a slight tartness that is present in the finish. Medium bodied with a higher gravity feel than is advertised (8%). Autodidact is becoming my now go to local brewery with the many great offerings they provide.

 

Pint pour on draught at the brewery. Served in a snulip glass. It is a beautiful pour: a dense, turbid, pastel yellow with a full finger cap of fluffy, bright white foam and lots of thick, soapy lacing. The smell includes lemon, grapefruit, stone fruit, and soft floral hops. Its flavors are a well-balanced blend of tart, somewhat bitter, citrus, including lemon, lime, and grapefruit, and sweeter fruits including tangerine and red berry. The grist also plays a big role with oaty sweetness that becomes more evident as the ale warms and some dry wheat cracker. There is significant bitterness throughout and touch of hop burn at the finish which should settle out in short order. It is surprisingly boozy for the 8.4% ABV. The mouth feel is soft and creamy. Overall, Full Circle is a big, punchy version of the tried and true hop bill of Citra + Mosaic. It is a tasty big brother of Auto's Daylily APA but doesn't have quite the wow factor of Garden Eyes.