Fireside Winter Ale
Salt Spring Island Ales in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Amber / Red Ale Regular|
Score
5.47
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Brewed in the Old English tradition, this winter warmer is meant for sipping and savouring near a warm fire on a cold night. This copper-coloured ale has rich fruit and caramel note backed by flavourful malt. Great with cheeses, wild meats, fowl, and caramelized desserts, this seasonal ale is best shared with loved ones and friends. Cheers.
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4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 5
Texture 2
Overall 5
Pours with very modest foam on a deep amber body, relatively clear. Smells strongly of fake vanilla and nothing else, really kind of a foul rotting banana vibe that should not exist at all. Flavour is huge sweet cloying clove and cinnamon and sugar, oozy, mouthfeel is wrong for a beer but maybe okay for a cinnamon bun mid-december. Just overbearing and too hard to drink, maybe if cut with rum it might be nice or used in a sauce for Christmas cake. I'd cook with it, but I wouldn't drink it.
Tried
on 08 Mar 2020
at 05:38
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
650 ml bottle. Pours a clear brown with little head. Aromas of smoky malts, nutmeg and cinnamon, and sugary raisins. Flavors are primarily dry Christmas spice on a biscuity malt base.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2018
at 04:10
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle - Dark woody malts and some earth. Deep amber with a rich beige head. Dark amber malts, woody notes and a caramel/toffee finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2016
at 13:46
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught at St. Augustine’s, Vancouver
Hazy dark amber color, with creamy head. Caramel aroma, mild, with traces of spice. Malt and caramel flavor, with moderate residual sweetness, and a light, pleasant touch of baked goods, cake and cookies, and a hint of spice; correct bitterness.
For once, a good beer from this brewery.
Hazy dark amber color, with creamy head. Caramel aroma, mild, with traces of spice. Malt and caramel flavor, with moderate residual sweetness, and a light, pleasant touch of baked goods, cake and cookies, and a hint of spice; correct bitterness.
For once, a good beer from this brewery.
Tried
on 11 Mar 2012
at 13:06
3.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
On tap at St. Augustine's, pours clear copper. Aroma is quite weak, with vanilla and spices. Flavour is a thin, uncomplex vanilla, popcorn and light spices. Quite watered down and underwhelming.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jan 2011
at 00:13
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
bottle. Red orange, creamy head. Smoked, herbal, light rubbery nose. Wooden, rubbery, vegetables. Light sparkly sticky mouthfeel. Meh
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2007
at 19:25
4.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
This beer has always sucked. I bought a bottle that was less than a month old and it was infected. Given a chance to try it on tap, I took it since I figured maybe the bottles are the problem. Well, um, no. Looks good. The aroma is carmel and diacetyl. Thin body, vague nuts and more diacetyl. Even when not sour infected this is lousy, unprofessional stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2005
at 00:55
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 4.5
Are we all drinking the same beer here? Sparkling amber, fast fading beige head.Cidery & carmel nose.Astringent vinergary flavor with a touch of carmel. Not the worst Winter beer I have sampled, but not far off. Hopefully I just got a bad one, but at the price, I wont be trying again, hoping fora better one
Tried
on 28 Dec 2004
at 19:01