Full Sail Limited Edition Lager (LTD 05)
For those who love amber ales, here’s a limited edition amber lager is so crazy good you might convert to lagerism.
3.3
187 reviews
Hood River, United States
Community reviews
12oz bottle. Amber in color with a small off-white head. Aroma is of leaves, malt, caramel, and bread dough. Taste is of dried leaves, dirt, caramel, and straw.
The beer pours very well with a nice reddish, brown hue to it. The head is full with a nice white creaminess to it and decent lacing. The smell has a nice scent of malt, mild caramel, a hint of coffee and a great mild smokiness to it. The taste is decent with the roasted malt flavors coming through instantly, which is then followed up with the light caramel flavor and a hint of coffee on the back end. The mouthfeel is nice with a lingering sweetness and mild carbonation that lasts on. Overall, this is a great beer from a brewer that I have never experienced before. If they do this well with most of their beers, then I would gladly pick them up in the future. As for this beer, it is part of their limited lager series and worth getting.
Full Sail LTD Series 05 has a medium, cream-colored head, a clear, deep amber appearance, with some bubble streams and practically no lacing left behind. The aroma is faint, but the taster can detect some bread crust, sweetness, barley malt, and just the slightest caramel. Taste is also low profile, but sweet, mild, brown bread crust, light bitterness, and malt are present. Mouthfeel is light and watery, and Full Sail LTD Series 05 finishes wet, refreshing, easy drinking, and rather dull. Overall, it is good, but unexciting. RJT
Bottle.
Head is initially small, frothy/fizzy, off-white to light brown, mostly diminishing.
Body is dark amber / medium brown.
Aroma is moderately malty (caramel, cookie, toasted bread), lightly to moderately hoppy (apricot, orange, herbs), with a light note of toffee.
Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter.
Finish is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter.
Medium body, watery/syrupy texture, lively/fizzy carbonation.
Solid! The LTD series in general has seen significant improvements over the past couple years, and while I’ve never had this particular one before, it’s probably never been better. Delightful toasty-cookie-toffee-ish malt character with soft citrusy hops. For the modest price, this is a very worthy quaffer.
Pours light brown with red highlights. Aroma is musty grain hay and herbs. Taste follows nose and is pretty sweet.
12 oz bottle dated 6/7/11 served in a pint glass.
Pours a clear red-brown (dark amber) color with a large head of light beige foam. Head dies down to a lasting thin coat and leaves a little lacing.
A - Not much aroma except for a not particularly attractive aroma of mixed grains.
T: near duplicate of Killian’s Red
MF: Light/medium body; good medium carbonation
O - Sacrilegious to say this, perhaps, but this is very similar to, and certainly no better than, Killiians Red.
(from 2011 notes)
Draft at The Full Sail Pilsener Room in Portland, OR on 5 June 2013.
Clear amber colour with a white, dense head. Aroma of bitter hops and cereal malts. Initial hoppy bite with a dry toasty finish. Mouth feel was a little watery.
12 oz bottle- Pours dark rusty orange with a thin off white head that reduces to a collar. Aroma is some caramel, malt and some hops. The taste is very much like you’d expect an amber to taste, caramel and toasted malt character, dry finish. This was okay, but not really my style.
Aroma very slight. Amber color with good head and moderate head retention. Taste of bitter hops. Moderate mouthfeel with good carbonation level. Overall a slightly heavy and bitter version.
A really nice doughy malt character in the mid-palate, modest hop bitterness to round out. Very drinkable. Not a world-beater but certainly a darn tasty thing.
12 oz bottle from a six pack bought at Super 1 in Rathdrum, ID. Pours mostly clear copper with a medium beige head with decent retention. Aroma is doughy, caramelly, citrus powder drink. Taste is sweet with earthy and caramel flavors. Mouthfeel is creamy, body medium to thin. Goes down really easy for this style; I don’t usually care for it.
Poured a half finger of head on a clear, medium straw colored body.
It has a great aroma of grain with a bit of barnyard in the background.
The taste is wonderful. Full of grains with a nice malt background for a lager. Well balanced.
It is crisp with moderate carbonation.
A pretty good lager.
This rating is for the style.
Clear amber and nice maltiness with a subtle kiss of spicy hops. Lager lovers loves this.
Glad to see this on shelves again... I love the LTD beers.
A - Pours a clear amber/brown with a 1.5 finger off-white head the forms a solid ceiling. Leaves behind average lacing.
S - Toasted bread, woody yeast, faint earthy/floral hops, hint of alcohol.
T - Clean grain, sweet/toasty caramel malt, some mild raspberry around the edges. Hops come out toward the end and add a little spicy bitterness and stick on the tongue on the aftertaste.
M - Medium firm body, moderate carbonation.
Pretty flavorful Red Lager. This holds it’s own in the style. Good malt presence. This is a keeper.
Serving type: bottle
05-02-2011
Light bready aroma. Nice malt flavor: Bread crust, toasty, sweet, toffee/brown sugar.
Lovely dark amber color. Smells of tart straw. Tastes first of straight up malt then moves into rich spiced caramel bread with a tail of hops. Light effervescence and medium mouthfeel. Very sessionable and similar to full sail’s session fest. Could hold up to even higher alcohol content. I’m thinking 7% or so.
Bottle at Columbia event. Pours a medium brown/amber color. Not much in the aroma, medium body, very sweet, finish really opens up, again, drinkable. Excellent.
Dark amber pour from twelve oz bouteille. Breast nose with dark Amber Brown appearance. Malty syrupy. bread finish. HeAvy for a v but good
Bottle pours a golden/amber with a thin off white head. Scent is toffee and bread. Taste is caramel with a roasted bitter finish.
May 16th, 2012 - A good amber is an amber that shines in a dull, brown and monotonous crowd. The amber is the safe style and the go-to 6-pack that lets a party hosted appeal just a little bit to all palates, rather than exceeding expectations for just a few drinkers. But Full Sail’s LTD Series Lager Recipe Number 5 is a cut above the mundane ambers that crowd the refrigerated section of my local grocery stores. It’s an experimental recipe - whatever tinkering they conducted yielded a wonderful new take on the traditional amber; it’s a beer that engages the palate, rather than just slaking some vague thirst for beer. Dark chocolate brown in color, the depth and murkiness suggests that this brew might be thick with something - flavor, palate, gravity, it’s as yet unknown. Exploring the aroma, I find brown sugar and a heavy malta aroma, with the scent of fresh grass and sod. A dribble of honey appears in the aroma too, suggesting this is going to be a very sweet beer on the tongue. My suspicious are confirmed on the first sip. Lots of that rich maltiness comes to play on the palate, complemented by a mound of brown sugar, a breakfast oatmeal sweetness, a ribbon of caramel, and some glazed peaches and apricots., I overuse this word, but it fits so well here: toothsome. This is a sweet, delicious deep beer that has considerably improved the reputation and lot of ambers everywhere.
Clear amber with brown overtones and a creamy off white head. Hardly any distinct aroma - perhaps a little graininess. Flavor is nutty with a little marzipan and caramel. Hopped just enough to keep the finish relatively dry. Nice beer but not great.
Bottle. Poured clear dark golden color with an average frothy white head that mostly lasted and produced good to good lacing. Moderate balance aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and lively carbonation. Moderate balanced flavor with medium balanced finish of moderate duration. The beer goes well with spicy soup.
12oz bottle from Gail’s Hops and Grapes in Hickory. Brown-red pour with thin off-white. Aroma is sweet caramel and bread. Tastes are sugary malt, nuts, caramel, bread. Sweet candied sugar dominates. Not horrible, but not so great.
Botella, thanks yespr. Deep dark golden colour. Pleasant fruity herbal sweet aroma. Flavour: fruity hops, caramel, something herbal and malty. Nice... Vienna..?? quite different.
I always find Full Sail to be a good value even if they aren’t the best in their style. I think I’ve probably had three sixers if this already since it’s only $6. Amber in colo of course with a smell like lager, sort of earthy too. Taste is decent, a little bready and easily distinguished as a Full Sail beer, maybe it’s the malt? Overall, an easy sipper and a good value.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 04-21-2011 00:36:08
Bottle at yespr.
Clear orange coloured with a medium sized off-white head.
Sweet and fruity aroma of caramel, hops, grass and tea.
Sweet and fruity flavour of caramel, grass and hops.
Hoppy finish.
clear dark orange, smooth white head.
mild aroma, herbal, spicy. flavor is malty, toffee, very slightly dark fruity.
Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of Pinball. Clear amber with an off-white head. Biscuity sweet malt aroma. Medium body, rather sweet burned caramel aroma with a slight vanilla twist. Asolutely no bitterness. Totally like a well made, clean Amber Ale. 071112
12 fl oz bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small off white head. Aroma is fruity, toffee malty to light breadish. Bitter, toffee malty and light caramelish. Bitter and roasted malty finish.
Pours a dark amber-orange color with a small head that lingers a bit. Malty aroma of bread, caramel, and yeast. Taste is rich caramel malt, thick bread, and light toast. Incredibly thick body and chewy mouthfeel for an amber lager, wow. Best vienna I’ve had. It’s more like bock really. Well made lager.