Full Sail Prodigal Sun IPA

Brewed by Full Sail Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Hood River, Oregon USA

Bomber from Bottle Trek. Amber color with a decent beige head. Aromas of sweetish malt and citrus/floral hop. Medium body with creamy carbonation. Flavor is roasted caramel and floral hop. It is wonderfully bitter, but there seems to be malt to balance. IBU 80 is believable, but it’s not harsh. Wonderful product. There are some strange aspects, like wintergreen? But just assume there’s interesting complexity. My tongue is pleased.

Bottle: Pours a true copper color with a large sandy head. Plenty of thick, sticky lacing. Intense aroma of sweet citrus and floral hoppiness. Smells like a hop bomb! Taste is brash with floral hops, ro real citrus, and a very mild malt presence. Some of the florals stand out and the finish becomes a bit dry and well, bitter. I like a bit more citrus and/or malt to bring this IPA up in overall score. Still, I can’t help but like it a bit.

Bottle and served in my GI IPA tulip: Sunset copper hue with a lush creamy head and very good lace. The aroma has notes of grassy and resiny hops, white pepper and wintermint esters, light biscuity malt and grainy, some pineapple esters. The taste is a letdown, watered down hop bitterness and spice over mundane layers of pale and caramel malt. The finish is medicinal and spicy which is actually the strong point of the flavor profile. The mouth feel is lively enough and then once again seems watery and lacks punch, metallic finish. Utterly disappointing brew.

Copper color. Nose is very hoppy, but not bright or citrusy at all. Not my kind of hop aromatics (it’s very medicinal, herbal, weedy.) Some nice hints of fruits from the hops. Tastes like they used brown hops. Poorly balanced with a strange dry, herbaceous hop character. Awful, undrinkable IPA.

This beer really works for me. Rustic, but brilliantly balanced, it shows IPA ll the way, but with a litle twang. Super citrus nose, nice and bitter without being astringent. Clean and clear, pale amber. Malt is secondary, but there. I like it.

Bottle: Pours a nice bronze color with a puffy white head and adequate lacing. The nose is old-school IPA with some solid C notes and a strong bitter background. Restrained dry-hopping proves the bitterness is accented foremost in the flavor with the light dry toasty pale malt playing far in the back row. A dry bitter mouthfeel with a crisp and brassing tail. Solid IPA in the traditional sense; I prefer something a little more aggressive on the nose and milder on the palate, but these fit an occasion now and again.

Bottle, was pleased to see a new IPA on the shelf and am looking forward to this one after a long day of working outside. A nice clear copper color with a modest sized creamy off-white head. Hoppy but soft and subdued. I shouldn’t have read raphaels notes first...crap. Yes, carmel and metallic flavors. fairly high bitterness, but not much fresh west coast hoppiness. A bit grassy and almost a touch of smoke or rotten log. A bit off. carbonation is a little soft as well. The lingering bitterness is putting me off even more. Dissapointing.. I think I have a few more SNPAs in the back of the fridge...oh please....oh please...

Pours amber with with a small but long lasting head. Aromas of green hops, slight pine, slight floral, some orange/grapefruit peel. Body is light and sweet for just a moment before this incredible bitterness sets in. Bitterness lasts and lasts :-)