Full Sail Equinox - Full Sail Brewery & Tasting Room & Pub

edmundfitzoil

Florida

3.2/5  rDev -18.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

I picked up a brown bomber bottle of this at Full Sail's pub at the brewery. I poured mine into my Baldwin-Wallace standard pint glass, and I found clear, copper colored beer produced a large, 1 inch plus of head during a standard, 45 degree to straight pour. A nice ring of thick bubbled, lacing left itself around the top ring of the glass. The beer's nose included a surprising amount of what I would consider skunkiness. Some hop presence lingered, but stayed in the background. The flavor too seemed to have a fair amount of skunkiness to it, but, proved to be fairly well balanced: light hops up front with a faint, soft malt back to it. The beer did have a distinctness to it, but within Oregon we have too many high quality bitters, including two from Rogue and Bachelor ESB from Deschutes, to reach for this rendition from Full Sail. The ESB style has quickly become one of my favorites as I have become increasingly more acquainted with it, but I found this beer's nose, and subsequent initial mouth fulls, to be unsatisfactory.

Notes: I picked this beer up from the brewery itself, and expected to find a bottle that was well taken care of, but I perhaps had receieved a poorly cared for bottle. While this may be the case, I chose to review the beer as though it was intended to be this by choice, for it was purchased from the brewery itself.

Serving type: bottle

03-27-2006 08:19:02 | More by edmundfitzoil

freed

Oregon

3.48/5  rDev -11.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

New and on sale. Pours a clear copper with a slight ruby hue. Foam dances on top and rims the glass, leaving a nice fractal lacing.

Aroma is earthy malt that's aged and funked an authentic amount. Milder hops provide a herbal accessory.

Taste is direct with a rangier yeast fruitiness and sour malt compliment. Hops give it a bitter edge, but are weaker on the flavoring. Thinner body considering the range of flavors, but makes for an easy drink.

I'd love to try this on cask, or even tap. The carbonation gives it just the slightest bit of dryness that detracts from the overall drinkability. Still, nice.

Serving type: bottle

03-24-2006 03:50:06 | More by freed

Reidrover

Oregon

3.95/5  rDev +0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

New Brewmasters Reserve release 2006.
Nice looking beer, clear amber with a great looking frothy /bubbly off white head, that sticks around, afterwards lashings of lace.
Very English style malty aromas backed up with very untypical NW hops ( for the style), but good and fresh none-the-less.
Quite a good job on the taste of this it has very English characteristics in the malting but throws in a bit of American hop enthusiasm, giving a nice bitter twang to the beer, big for an English ESB.
MOuthfeel was odd it started off really nice then sort of lost its way in wateryness..the nice bitter after taste saved it however.
A nice beer sort of a hybrid in my opinion between an ESB and an American Pale..though for me the ESB characteristics edge a win.

Serving type: bottle

03-14-2006 07:23:05 | More by Reidrover

Gusler

Arizona

4.15/5  rDev +5.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Personally Full Sail, is a favorite brewery, whose beers always seem to please, just great everyday drinkable beers that "NO" matter which one you pull off the shelf will most certainly be a pleasure.

A nice deep amber to copper color on the pour, the head impressive in size, frothy, lace adequate enough to conceal the glass. Nose is lightly floral, malt, crisp and lemon-lime fresh. Sweet malt start, the top middling and the finish spicily hopped, stinging in its acidity, dry long lasting after taste.

Serving type: bottle

01-10-2003 18:00:32 | More by Gusler

Jason

Massachusetts

4.1/5  rDev +4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Presentation: 12oz brown with a "enjoy by" date clearly marked.

Appearance: Copper hued amber with a delightful sticky lace.

Smell: Ripe fruit, grain and fresh spicy hop.

Taste: Very smooth with a medium body ... nice full malty mouthfeel. Hops are aggressive with a pungent / semi coarse bitterness. Quick flash of malt with a handful of pale and crystal malt flavour. Oddly enough it does have a faint licorice note within the grainy, hoppy and fruity flavours. Hops linger everlasting into a long drawn-out drying finish along with a grainy taste.

Notes: Great stuff went superb with bbq pulled pork, red beans and dirty rice. Very drinkable ... close to being addictive as an after work beer.

Serving type: bottle

04-10-2002 20:09:50 | More by Jason