Golden Ale
Salt Spring Island Ales in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
5.42
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Salt Spring Golden Ale is made with the finest Canadian two-row barley and hops from Salt Spring Island and the Pacific Northwest. This ale boasts a nutty flavour, citrus notes and a beautiful golden colour.
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5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Poured from the tap. Clear gold with small white head. Grainy and a bit malty with some feint pine hops. A bit of an odd golden.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Oct 2023
at 23:41
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
650 ml bottle. Pours a clear gold with lots of carbonation and medium head. Aromas of malt, bread, and a bit of lemon and toffee. Doughy, floral flavors with additional malt, honey, and citrus notes. Nice enough.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Dec 2012
at 19:46
4.6/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Foggy gold body and almost no head. Soft malt and citrus on the nose. Flavour is maltiness with sharp carbonation on the mouth and a dry bready finish. Drinkable. Unremarkable.
Tried
on 15 Feb 2011
at 17:27
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Draught at St. Augustine’s, as Salt Spring Golden Spike Ale
Hazy blond. Color. Almost no aroma. Poor Lager flavor, just not as watery as the Heatherdale, but equally useless.
Hazy blond. Color. Almost no aroma. Poor Lager flavor, just not as watery as the Heatherdale, but equally useless.
Tried
on 20 Jun 2010
at 15:15
3.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Pours golden with a white head. Taste is very grainy/bready, with some light floral and citrus notes. Not terrible.
Tried
on 13 Feb 2010
at 19:56
4.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Golden ale with floaties, and a thick white head. A rather citrusy aroma, like a lemon infusion. In mouth, a watery malt with lemony notes, showing lactic acids, thin and bad. Seems they have problems bottling...
Tried
on 20 Aug 2006
at 10:31
4.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Dark straw colour. Sweaty, earthy but light aroma (wow - every brewer in BC really does use the same yeast - or so it tastes). Local hops? WTF? On Salt Spring? Since when? Why was I not informed of this? It’s not that I don’t believe them, but after the farm in Chilliwack closed I thought the only hops in BC were up at Crannog. Creamy, zippy, almost Belgian mouthfeel. Body is light, sweetish with wonderbread and fleeting earthy hop notes. Slightly tart finish.
Tried
on 22 Jan 2005
at 04:12
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Hazy gold, lasting beige head.Lightly spiced hop & carmel malt nose.Nutty carmel malt taste with light finishing hops. Good lace Quite a pleasant surprise
Tried
on 30 Nov 2003
at 19:51