Full Sail IPA

Full Sail is a brewery out of Hood River, Oregon and they offer an India Pale Ale. Considering I'm in New Orleans, and the demand for IPAs here is about as low as the demand to revoke the right to bear arms, I was lucky to find this beer. It's not the most amazing IPA, but it's a hell of a buy for the price.


Full Sail's IPA has a good aroma with hints of orangey citrus and pine. It has the same aromatic dynamic as Pine Sol, without the nasty chemicals (I mean this in a good way). There's also a slight bready or dough flavor to the aroma.


The flavor has great balance. No one element of malt or hop outshines the other. It begins with a sweet fruit flavor of orange peel, then a doughy malt flavor opens up. It ends with a slight bitter finish out of the blue. It is very clean, very dry and barely leaves any residual flavors on the palate.