Whale Tail Amber Ale
Salt Spring Island Ales in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Amber / Red Ale Regular|
Score
6.24
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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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5.8/10
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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
6.1/10
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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?
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
6.2/10
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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
6.6/10
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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
5.4/10
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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
6/10
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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.
Amber color. Dry mouthfeel, caramel flavor, strong bitterness, with some hop resins.
Tried
on 03 Jul 2014
at 11:57