Wind & Sail Dark Ale
Barley Days Brewery in Picton, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
5.89
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6/10
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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
5.9/10
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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
5.6/10
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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
5.5/10
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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
6.9/10
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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
5.6/10
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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
2.8/10
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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
6.6/10
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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
6.8/10
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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
4.8/10
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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