Full Sail Limited Edition Lager (LTD 04)
This Pale Bock is a finely balanced single malt, single hop, lager that is pale-golden in color and brewed with just pale malt and pleasantly hopped with just Willamette hops.
3.1
172 reviews
Hood River, United States
Community reviews
Pale yellow pour with a white soapy head, Aroma of grain, with some bread, and hops. Grain, lemon, and bread flavor. Decent.
Bottle from the Hope Valley Bottle Shop, Durham. Cloudy gold pour, well carbonated, with the light look of a farmhouse to it. Intriguing nose, papery and dry hops blended with quite understated malts (good choices on both counts), giving the whole thing a nicely peppery and surprisingly refreshing quality.
12oz bottle. Pours a pale golden with a white head leaving medium lacing. Not terrible but not terribly exciting either. Not much going on with this one. Still pretty drinkable though.
Light golden with an average off-white head. Aroma is of grain, malt, dough. Taste is malt, pear, grain.
Bottle. The look is very clear, whitish head, golden in color. The smell is sweet, grainy, floral, pleasant but weak. The taste is sweet, grainy, malt, floral, and ok.
This LTD product comes exactly as advertised -pale golden color, pale malt and pleasantly hopped. A refreshing alternative to some of the heavier and sweeter bocks in the marketplace. If this were a year-round product, I’d purchase it on a regular basis. I enjoy Bocks but find their season much too short.
Pours a clear gold with a short, fizzy white head. the nose is sweet malt, honey, fruit notes and grassy. Taste is slightly bitter grassy notes with grains, fruit notes, sweet malt, a touch of honey and biscuit. Body is medium and crisp with a slight fizzy carbonation. Soft dryness as well. Ends with more caramel, honey, sweet malt, grains, grassy hops and soft bitter hops.
Bready, lightly sweet malty aroma. Bread/bread crust flavor, with more sweetness--but balanced with moderate bitterness. Some subtle floral/herbal hops.
Interesting too but not so strong in taste as one may have thought with the name. VEry fine brewed.
Pale yellow Bock, flat pour, thin bodied with some lemon, bready malt flavors. Coming across as a misfire to me. Been a while since Full Sail I hope this LTD beer does not represent where the brewery is going.
12oz bottle. Enjoy by 6/9/13. Underside of cap reads "loco tatt, dawg". Thanks, but I have no tattoos. Clear golden yellow color. Thin white head. Decent lace. Satisfying amount of hop - kind of floral, lightly spicy. Medium to bigger body. Smooth, lighter carbonation, kind of crisp. Bready body, lighty fruity. Kind of sweet, light bitter. Tasty, interesting stuff.
Medium gold, clear, thin white head. Aroma is grainy-sweet and slightly corn-like malt with a very slight floral hop aroma. Flavor is grainy-sweet with a little lemon note in there. Clean lager character, but just kindof a one-note grainy-sweet maltiness.
Clear gold with a decent size head. Not much carbonation in this one. Sweet malt aroma. Medium body with just the right amount of hops for balance. Filling and slightly bitter finish.
Poured a half finger of head on a clear, golden colored body with only a few bubbles coming up.
The aroma is rich caramel and lemon.
The taste is smooth caramel and honey sweet with a mild bitterness. Great balance.
Soft texture with low carbonation.
It has the lighter and better parts of a bock; great if you aren’t keen on the heavy sweetness of a traditional bock.
3 Apr 2013, bottle. yellow, clear, some steady bubbles. nose is nose is slightly sweet, slightly bitter lager hops. thin body and moderately fizzy. lemony hops and straw malt. meh.
From bottle. Light creamy golden in color with a frothy head. Malty aroma. Sweet bread, slightly caramel malts, and a little hop bitterness on the finish.
Nice golden color; Medium slightly creamy body; Aroma of malt, dusty hops/grain, & light citrus; Flavor of sweet malt, caramel, hops, some fruit, and spice; Finish is dry; Not too bad actually.
Clear golden pour with a white head. Nose is a bit sweeter than expected. Bread, some sugar, and a lot of pear and apple esters. Mild spiciness of hops, some floral notes, and yeast. Very simple and sweet flavor. Plenty of bread and sugar. Some pear, apple, and yeast. A touch of grass, spicy and floral hops, and a cloying finish.
Quite pale yellow, sudsy white head. Yeast, bread and fruit- apricot - waft from the glass. Surprisingly full flavored. Chewy, juicy malt and the fruits follow. Mineral and lightly bitter finish. Not bad.
Bottled. Goldish pour with white head. Some malts but thinnish feel iverall.......OK.
12 oz. bottle, thanks Poisoneddwarf- Pours mostly clear with little particles floating around and a one finger head that is slowly reducing. Aroma is bready, moderately spicy, kind of yeasty and creamy. The taste is different than I was expecting, creamy, moderate dry hoppiness, this is actually pretty good. Medium carbonation with a creamy somewhat full mouth feel. Overall I was impressed, better than I was expecting.
Pours a golden yellow with a sour malt aroma. Taste is malty up front with a saison type of bitterness that comes from underneath. Fairly dry finish. Probably only a one-off.
One of the better Full Sails that I?ve had; I generally find them to be about average. Mild, sweet aroma. Medium bodied, creamy mouth feel. Flavor is mostly standard bock with some sweet breadiness and biscuity flavor. The sweetness becomes a bit much over time. The second time having this I pick up
If you can imagine what a pale Bock tastes like then this tastes exactly like what you would expect. Its rich, blonde, and oaty malts are followed by a satisfying body and palate. This beer is like desert with all its oaty deliciousness. Prosit!
The ingredients say it’s a pale malt/willamette SMaSH with lager yeast, but the taste says it’s a helles bock (although it tastes somewhat similar to my petite saison SMaSH with 3711, lol).
Pours yellow/tan and clear with a white head and decent lacing.
Aroma is yeasty, grainy, grassy, lightly hoppy.
Flavor is again yeasty, grainy, some biscuit, some citrus (lemons), and a balancing hoppiness.
Body is actually fairly full despite the lager yeast. Carbonation is plentiful.
It’s a tasty brew. I would say if you’re a helles bock lover, try this one. It’s a bit of a shock if you’re expecting a pale lager (BMC drinkers probably will be intimidated by the abundant flavor).
A little disappointing for Full Sail. Its nice and clean and refreshing. Its just a little overly simple. I can taste mostly bready semi-sweat malt and bitterness but not much hoppiness or complexity under it. This is basically a golden colored California Common or pale ale, I don’t think its all that bock. I’d drink it again but I’m not dying get it.
On tap. Deep golden with a white head. Scent is bread and musty. Taste is spice, bread and grass.
I think I liked this more than my review shows, but I’m drunk as hell. I’ll get some more soon.
Polished gold body. Creamy halo of froth encircles a broken center. Pleasant nose of candied lemon zest, dried pineapple, wildflower honey, and floral hops. Pointy carbonation. Initially mellow with focused cookie maltiness dabbed with hard lemon candy and juicy floral accents. Malt is pleasingly clean and firmly structured, though lacking in weight and textural detail, and thus struggles to withstand the hop acids which restrict much of its depth. Merely a hint of cracker dough exudes, along with a touch of paperiness. Mouthwatering pineapple- and kumquat-tinged hoppiness gives way to a spicy scratch of bitterness and zesty sharpness toward the simple but well-integrated finish. It’s a surprisingly solid rendition if somewhat generic and undistinguished, which is largely a result of the filtration process. If any style suffers from filtration (they all do, of course), it’s bockbier, as this style absolutely relies on a full maltiness to achieve greatness. As is, this comes off as borderline sterile and soulless, though it does provide the framework for the makings of a really top-notch lager if Full Sail were to feel so inclined to take the old-fashioned approach.
bottle 12 oz. golden amber pour, white head. nose is champagne like, light, malty, and semi-sweet. mouth is malt foward going towards a dry persistent hop bitter from mid to end palate. overall pretty simple, not enough malt backbone to carry through, single hop bitter profile dominates in a bad way.