Full Sail Vesuvius

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

It pours a slightly hazy golden with a thick and fizzy white head - not much lacing. An aroma of light caramel malts, faint hops, orange and citrus notes, tart and bitterness, apples, grapes, and light spice. The mouthfeel is smooth and fairly rich. Flavors of caramel malts, hops, alcohol, citrus, apple, some grapes, and spiciness. It's good - I just don't care for the alcohol. It almost makes it a high-class malt liguor.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Bottle from Topps in Tempe. Poured a crystal golden color, mediocre sized white head, no haze or any bit of cloudiness (where's my yeast?). The aroma was metallic, astringent bananas, bubble soap. The flavor was much the same, a touch of pilsy type malts detectable?, completely uninspiring, hardly even tingly on the mouth, very light bodied for a BSA. Snore.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Enjoyed on tap at City Beer in SF and out of the bottle. Aroma was definitely sweet, with green apples playing a large part. There was also a sweetness that I did not associate with the fruitiness, but perhaps candi sugar. Appearance was a light orange, almost golden orange in color. Mouthfeel was a little syrupy but nothing horrible. Flavor is really sweet with sugar and apples, not much in terms of hop prescence and little else. Nothing horrible, but definite room for improvement.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

This Belgian Golden Ale pours a medium orange gold color from a 22oz bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head. Aroma is apples, bananas, alcohol and sugar. A medium bodied Belgian Ale. Malts are fruity and sweet. Lots of banana and apple flavors as well as some unrefined sugar. Kind of overly sweet and a little bland. Strangely it reminds me a little bit of a malt liquor, I mean it in no way tastes like one, but it has that high gravity kind of feel to it. Perhaps a bit of aging will mellow this one, as it’s a little harsh and one sided right now. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is smooth. Aftertaste is sweet.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

I poured this into a large brandy glass , as my chalice broke. Still its a nice enough looking ale .Clear golden orange in colour with loads of carbonation visible and a small pure white head. I really didnt "get" the aroma. It seemed a little one dimensional for a Belgian ale, mostlymalty with the faintest hints of pepper. In the taste I do get some hints of clove/spices/yeast but its still mainllymalts carrying this beer, unfortunatlly i found the alcohol taste VERY noticable at the end of the mouthfeel, almost like a malt liquor. Mouthfeel is average, nothing bad nothing good..I am afraid, for me this beer was a letdown, it seemed to be striving to be a Belgian yet came across as a high end malt liquor..thoughafter about 30 minutes warming it did seem to improve and lose some of the pure alcohol taste