Special Pale Ale
Wellington Brewery in Guelph, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Pale Ale - Classic English Regular|
Score
5.97
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First brewed over 30 years ago, Special Pale Ale is one of Ontario's original craft beers. Deep copper in colour, this well-balanced English-style pale ale has biscuit and caramel flavours upfront and a subtle citrus hop finish. So go ahead and crack open a can of SPA!
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Tried
from Can
on 17 Sep 2025
at 21:15
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
great nose of fruit hops, and the flavour is much of the same. Just a solid pale ale, nice and refreshing, i stock it as mich as i can for the summer. Very well made, and very solid.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Feb 2025
at 06:12
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Berry, caramel malt and hay aroma. Copper color with moderate off-white head. Moderately sweet caramel malt, and mildly bitter hay flavor. Good body.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Aug 2024
at 16:57
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Poured from 473mL can (w/the brewnosers). Hazy copper with small white head. Caramel and toffee malt. Decent old school style.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Aug 2022
at 19:52
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
A nice mild pale ale. Balanced but still mildly hop forward. Easy drinking light beer. oakville beer store
Tried
on 07 Jun 2019
at 01:01
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From my brother: pours a copper with a small but thick head. Aroma is mostly a sort of ambiguous maltiness, light ambiguous hops. Taste is fine. Lightly sweet. Low bitterness. Simple and a bit cheap tasting but goes down easily with a good enough body.
Tried
on 30 Oct 2018
at 04:54
5.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Caramel brown clear. Once again the thought of head. Soft caramel malts nose. Taste caramel malts, some sweetness but not overbearing, hops doesn’t really show up. Meh.
Tried
on 18 Apr 2015
at 18:00
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
Sample at Atlantic Beer Festival Moncton. Crystal clear golden amber color, tiny white edge head. Aroma of light smoke and black pepper. Taste is bittersweet caramel.
Tried
on 02 Sep 2014
at 08:08
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Draft - Light grains, caramel and earthy hops. Clear copper with a decent beige head. Toffee and earthy hops. Typical and nice English style.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Aug 2014
at 05:31
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Can: Poured a slightly hazy amber color ale with a medium size foamy head with average retention and some light lacing. Aroma consists of somewhat dry English style malt with light floral notes. Taste is also a mix between some floral notes with light dry malt notes. Body is about average with good carbonation. Not complex and easily drinkabale.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Sep 2012
at 11:08