Saltbox Brewing Company The Loyalist

The Loyalist

 

Saltbox Brewing Company in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦

  Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular
Score
6.63
ABV: 6.7% IBU: - Ticks: 3
The Loyalist "Old English Ale"
At the end of American Revolutionary War, British subjects who remained loyal to the Crown had to return to England or find a different British colony to welcome them. In 1783, over 35,000 of these "Loyalists" fled to Nova Scotia, almost doubling the province's population, and we assume, their thirst for British beer.

​We wanted to make a beer that was loyal to those who long for a taste of the British homeland. Ours is brewed in the tradition of a Yorkshire bitter, using classic English Fuggel hops and Nottingham ale yeast that augments the flavours of biscuit and grass with a dry, spicy finish.
 

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6.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at Your Father's Moustache. Pours clear amber with a white head. Toasted multigrain on the nose. Flavour has more of the same toasted multigrain bread along with dry caramel and a gentle spicing. Not bad, I think the malts are done pretty well.

Tried from Draft at Your Father's Moustache on 19 Dec 2025 at 18:17


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

I was able to try this beer on tap at Henry House in Halifax a few days ago with friends and family. The appearance was a shiny dark amber-brown body with a steady cover of taupe foam. I tasted toast, malt, a hint of red licorice and spice. Not bad, not great in the style.

Tried from Draft on 24 Sep 2024 at 19:00


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Tried on 27 Jun 2019 at 18:49