Sartori Harvest
Driftwood Brewery in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
7.57
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This wet-hopped IPA can only be brewed once a year when, in the midst of the hop harvest, fresh Centennial hops are spirited from Sartori Cedar Ranch near Chilliwack to our Brew Kettle in Victoria. Sartori’s fresh hops have a delicious profile unique to the patch of land they cultivate in the Columbia Valley making this limited release singular and remarkable.
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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Taking this one nice and aged. Medium amber-brown colour, with a slight haze, and a thick head. Piney aroma, definitely drinking this in December. Fairly bitter, sort of orangey, stale piney hops, and a rich crystal malt base. I don't remember where or when I bought this. Probably should have opened it sooner.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Dec 2025
at 05:08
8.4/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
473 ml can. Pours a beautiful bright copper color with moderated head. Aromas of fruity pine resin, a bit of spruce, candied citrus, apricot, and toasted malts. Flavor follow same with emphasis on forest floor and dankish hops. Somewhat fruity sweet to start but finishing bitter. Hard to find a fresh hopped beer better that this. And Driftwood is pretty consistent Tear on year with the Sartori Harvest.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Nov 2025
at 23:34
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
473mL can. Pours clear gold with off-white head. Aroma has fresh pine and thick chewy malts. Flavour has bright pine with a crisp biting finish and a chewy malt base. This is excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Oct 2024
at 04:57
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
473ml can. Pours a clear amber gold with a medium, frothy, long lasting, off-white head that leaves soapy curtains of lace. Sweet aroma of bready caramel malt, tangerine and floral hops. Sweet fruity flavour of grainy caramel malt, grapefruit peel, orange, earth, pine resin and grassy hops in a dry, bitter finish. Medium body with sticky, smooth texture and soft carbonation. Delicious and easy to drink.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Oct 2023
at 05:18
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Oct 06, 2025 (7/4/8/4/15=3.8): Poured from 473mL can (2025 release from Jak's Granville; pkg Sept 19, 2025). Clear amber gold with full white head. Biscuit malt with a hint of crystal and soft leafy pine hops. Well balanced.
Oct 09, 2023 (8/4/7/3/15=3.7): Poured from the tap @ The Magnet. Clear golden orange with small white head. Leafy citrus hops, sweet biscuit malt, solid.
Oct 09, 2023 (8/4/7/3/15=3.7): Poured from the tap @ The Magnet. Clear golden orange with small white head. Leafy citrus hops, sweet biscuit malt, solid.
Tried
from Can
from
Jak's Beer-Wine-Spirits - South Granville
on 09 Oct 2023
at 22:54
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Early rating from Beer Buddy app, Victoria, BC
Tried
on 25 Jan 2022
at 01:54
6.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Clear gold with a decent white head. Rich and malty with a light pine hop note. Lemon grass and pine with some bitterness and rich malts. A bit too malty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2020
at 19:30
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pineapple and potpourri. Lots of pine. Big on smell. Good malt backbone. Orange pour with decent head and lacing. Bottle thanks to my mom, who brought this from Victoria.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Nov 2016
at 12:11
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
10-Oct-2015. On tap at 2015 Fresh to Death beerfest in Victoria.
Aroma: fresh piney hops, grass and earth. Taste: fresh (like an effect of toothpaste), bitter, grass.
Very good.
8-4-8-3-15=38
15-Oct-2016. Bottle 650ml from Denman liquor store. Pours slightly hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is herbal with... canabis (shock!) notes.
Taste is very fresh with piney hops and herbal notes. Piney hops aftertaste. Good.
7-4-7-3-15=36
Aroma: fresh piney hops, grass and earth. Taste: fresh (like an effect of toothpaste), bitter, grass.
Very good.
8-4-8-3-15=38
15-Oct-2016. Bottle 650ml from Denman liquor store. Pours slightly hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is herbal with... canabis (shock!) notes.
Taste is very fresh with piney hops and herbal notes. Piney hops aftertaste. Good.
7-4-7-3-15=36
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Feb 2016
at 14:13
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bouteille 650ml, gracieuseté de Damon lors du CanBIF Fall 2014. Couleur jaune orangée translucide, mousse blanche majestueuse laissant une dentelle éparse. Arôme de citron, pomélo, malt mielleux, pointe herbacée, houblon frais. Goût d’écorce de citron, houblon résineux, bonne amertume insistante, touche d’alcool, pamplemousse. Carbonatation élevée, corps moyen.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Oct 2014
at 05:44