This is awful. Here I am at Full Sail and they have done me a bad deed. This is terrible. They are guilty Of destroying my palette for bottled IPA! Now when I next purchase the bottled stuff in Arvada it will remind me of the real thing. This on tap IPA slips down with no excess of carbonation, served in a non-iced glass which has an accurate 16oz mark. Oh draft is always so much better. The hops are balanced to a perfection and the only discord is the noise from a highway a few hundreds feet down the hill. Harriet and I are on the open balcony looking across the Columbia River, watching para sailors leaping, splashing and drowning as they fall into the blue gray white capped river.
Bravely I ordered chicken yakisoba. What the heck is it? The alternatives such as pulled pork, fish and chips – all the usual stuff – been there done that. Try something new. Sorry to say – it wasn’t good – nay bloody marvelous might cover the descriptor. Lunch time and my chop sticks did overtime, they must have been buzzing. Join the clean licked plate club. Only added a 1/4 inch so that’s OK – isn’t it?
This brewery claims to be employer owned so I must ask. Just did and found that full time employees earn shares. Truth in advertising. Splendid food, marvelous beers – OK – I had two IPA’s – but who wouldn’t?
To sum up – not to visit if within fifty miles makes you a world class idiot. One hundred miles – a low motivated fool.
Will I return to Full Sail? You betcha!
Author of the Colorado Brew Guide, Geoff is a great lover of pubs. Though he hails from across the pond, he considers the USA to be the leading brewing nation in the world. He is on a one-man mission to educate the world on good beer. Geoff’s message to the world: disregard quantity - just taste the quality. U.S. domestic beers that flow throughout the world do not represent the real beers of the USA.
Currently writing the Rocky Mountain Brew and Tour Guide, he runs brew tours in Colorado. He also teaches sailing, and runs sail trips in the Caribbean. Geoff is a legend in his own mind.