Whale Tail Amber Ale

Salt Spring Island Ales in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦

Amber / Red Ale Regular

Score

6.24

ABV: 5.0%

IBU: 45

Ticks: 6

A North American style Amber Ale, brewed with our own fresh, whole-cone, estate-grown Mount Hood, Cascade and Nugget hops. Bold, with a pleasantly 'green' fresh-hop aroma and a nice bitter snap, this beer is balanced by deep flavours of aromatic specialty malts. Notes of caramel, citrus, biscuit, toffee. Originally brewed for Moby's pub on Salt Spring Island, our estate-hopped Whale Tale Amber Ale is as local as local gets

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5.8

Deanf (9781) reviewed Whale Tail Amber Ale from Salt Spring Island Ales 4 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bottle found on Saltspring Island. Pours with huge foam, not too dense though, and a rather stormy semi-murky brown body. The aroma is sweet biscuit, slight hops. Taste is mostly a wet biscuit with brown sugar notes. Finishes wet again. Smooth enough but there's not much going on here.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Jul 2021 at 01:07

6.1

crit200 (5349) reviewed Whale Tail Amber Ale from Salt Spring Island Ales 5 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bright copper, lasting beige head.Nondescript nose. Light sweet palate with a very late burst of hop bitterness
Earlier Rating: 1/28/2010 Total Score: 2.2
All butterscotch in nose and flavor. Why would someone make a beer to taste like it had diacetyl? Even if it didn’t?

Tried on 02 Nov 2020 at 02:12

6.2

Gerbeer (8336) reviewed Whale Tail Amber Ale from Salt Spring Island Ales 7 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

On tap. Pours mahogany with moderate head. Dry caramel, sweet malts and s bitbof cardboard.

Tried from Draft on 18 Nov 2018 at 01:17

6.6

Ferris (26026) reviewed Whale Tail Amber Ale from Salt Spring Island Ales 8 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle - Caramel and a touch of woody twig. Cloudy copper with a rich beige head. Nice caramel with an simple but easy drinking finish. Solid.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Dec 2017 at 23:29

5.4

mcberko (47797) reviewed Whale Tail Amber Ale from Salt Spring Island Ales 8 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

On tap at St. Augustine's, pours a hazy amber with a small beige head. Aroma is very subdued, with doughy malt and very subdued hops. Flavour is similar, with doughy malt and soft woody hops. Soft palate, with low carbonation. Pretty ordinary, but clean at least. Meh.

Tried from Draft on 26 Oct 2017 at 13:35

fiulijn (28383) reviewed Whale Tail Amber Ale from Salt Spring Island Ales 11 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Draught at The Beagle Pub, Victoria
Amber color. Dry mouthfeel, caramel flavor, strong bitterness, with some hop resins.

Tried on 03 Jul 2014 at 11:57