Windswept
Salt Spring Island Ales in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - West Coast Regular|
Score
6.68
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This full bodied West Coast IPA conjures up a chorus of bold, resinous hop varieties balanced with subtle stone fruit flavours that linger on the palate. Pouring slightly cloudy with a billowing white head, "Windswept" is a tribute to west coast island living.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
473 ml can. Pours a bright amber with moderate head. Aromas of grass, pine, grapefruit, a bit of dirt and toasty malts. Flavors of pine and grapefruit with dry toasty malts. Bitter finish. OK.
Tried
from Can
from
Cascadia Liquor Stores (Nanoose Bay)
on 05 Aug 2025
at 23:25
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Dullish pale, thick head. Herbaceous hop with slight pine and grapefruit. Medium pale malt. A bit buttery up front, fairly bitter, decent malt. But I thought Saltspring got past their butter problem. Apparently not.
Tried
on 09 Mar 2025
at 05:47
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
473mL can, pours a lightly hazy golden with a medium white head. Aroma has a herbaceous hop character, grassiness, and a light pine. Flavour is fairly bright, with herbal hops, light spicy hops, a touch of pine, and plenty of grassiness on the finish. Light malt backbone, with a spicy, grass, herbal finish. Too grassy and herbaceous, almost vegetal, but the brightness and crispness are nice. Decent.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jul 2024
at 23:57
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
On tap at brewery. Pours clear golden. Aroma has spruce and grassy hops. Flavour is pine and resin; a bit grassy. Decent, but could stand to be more aggressive.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Apr 2024
at 21:30
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Poured from the tap. Clear bright yellow gold with small white head. Citrus hops, quite clean, could ramp up the hops a little, but it’s the best of the two flights I tried.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Oct 2023
at 23:55