Barley Days Brewery Wind & Sail Dark Ale

Wind & Sail Dark Ale

 

Barley Days Brewery in Picton, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

  Brown Ale Regular
Score
5.89
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks: 10
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6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

nice maltiness in the aroma, lots of caramel, and toffee, with a huge sweet amlt. Flvour is sweet, and again very malty. not a bad ale, but not great, its pretty one dimensional.

Tried on 27 Feb 2025 at 12:11


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle - Light toast and caramel. Hazy brown with a beige head. Toast and twig with some caramel. A rich long bitter finish, much like a Bitter.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Dec 2014 at 15:56


5.6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Poured with an off-white head with lacing. The beer itself was a clear very dark brown. Nose full of toasted malts. The taste similarly full of malts, a wee grass, toast and roast up the wazoo. Finished a bit rough with carbon and little old smoke.

Tried on 21 Mar 2014 at 22:06


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Bouteille 650ml, sous le nom "Mckinney’s Triple Chin Irish Dark Ale". De couleur ambrée foncée et voilée. Nez malté de caramel aux petites notes terreuses, avec des notes de malt rôti ainsi que des traces fruitées (raisins et cerises) et de houblon herbeux. Moyenne-mince en bouche avec un pétillement moyen et une texture très légèrement aqueuse. Goût très légèrement fruité (notes de raisins et de cerises sûres, infection?) lors de l’entrée en bouche suivi assez rapidement par un goût malté de caramel légèrement sucré et rôti avec des notes de grains sucrés puis en finale l’on retrouve de faibles notes amères de houblon herbeux et chocolat noir. Post-goût moyen, légèrement amer de rôti et de chocolat noir.

Tried on 28 Feb 2013 at 02:27


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Originally rated September 2007. Pours a caramel-copper colour with a beige head, average retention and no lacing. The nose has a good barley malt scent to it. The mouthfeel is a bit sticky, but still quite refreshing. Complex taste going through malt, toffee-brown sugar and ending on an apple flavour. Can also taste mild roasted notes. Quite a nice brew, that I would have again.

Tried from Can on 27 Jun 2011 at 22:35


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

(bottle) dark reddish brown colour, medium brown head; aroma of chocolate and roast; mild and simple flavour with long light bitter finish

Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2010 at 16:23


2.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2

12-14-09----bottle---pours semi cloudy brown (coco-cola)--small beige head that diminishes quickly--burnt malts and stale vanilla sniffed--body is watery and I taste the burnt stale malt--**J smells a baby diaper, soaked in pee**--its not pleasant, yet i didn’t spill it--I guess the foulness slightly intrigues me---a lovely metallic finish--it did not put wind in my sail!!--was it better in its prime??--did it ever have one??

Tried from Bottle on 08 Mar 2010 at 19:04


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

This ale poured a black colour with a nice dense, foamy, tan coloured head. To the nose there are scents of roasted malt, caramel, ripe fruit and coffee. First taste was serious on the roasted side, slightly thin but the flavour makes up for it. Slightly smokey with flavours of caramel and coffee bean. Finish was burnt and slightly bitter. Very good, reminds me of the Stone Hammer Dark from F & M Brewery in Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Tried from Can on 20 Aug 2008 at 03:33


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Dark reddish brown ale with a thin lacing off white head. To style in aroma, with nice butterscotch and caramel malt. In mouth, a decent caramel malt, with nutty notes, decent English hops, and buttery mouthfeel. A good renewal for this brewery. On tap at KBC, Sep. 30, 2006.

Tried from Draft on 30 Sep 2006 at 19:30


4.8
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Chesnut colour; oily body; sweet, honeyish notes dominate - a fairly mild ale, but with a bit of alcholic zip (which at 4.5% points to the mildness of the other components). A bit of coffee at the end.

Tried on 02 Nov 2002 at 21:22