Big Spruce Brewing Tim's IPA

Tim's IPA

 

Big Spruce Brewing in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦

  IPA - Flavoured Regular
Score
6.92
ABV: 6.7% IBU: 69 Ticks: 11
This is a tip of the hat to avid home brewer Tim Gregory who won our inaugural home brew challenge in 2013. Full of resiny citrus filled late addition hops, it is heavily hop flavoured and aromatic yet extremely well balanced.
 

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7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

A 473ml can from NSLC in Inverness. Poured into a pint glass on the Cabot trail in Inginish Beach. A very well balanced IPA with citrus & Simicoe hops. Excellent.

Tried from Can on 05 May 2025 at 20:12


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

8/II/25 - 1Pt. can @ home, BB: n/a, produced: III/7/24, 1163B, 1164B (2025-127) Thanks to Thomas VP for sharing the can!

Little cloudy orange beer, creamy off-white head, stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very floral, soapy, a bit piny, some citrus, grapefruit, resinous notes. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty bitter up front, resinous, floral, a bit soapy, more resinous hops. Aftertaste: pretty resinous, bitter, a bit medicinal, hoppy.

Tried from Can on 08 Feb 2025 at 17:30


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

Poured from the tap @ Big Spruce. Clear gold with small white head. Biscuit malt, pine hops, decent.

Tried from Draft on 15 Sep 2024 at 16:43


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

On tap at Stillwell. Pours clear gold with white. Aroma has a lot of pine and resin. Flavour is very similar; some orange peel. Solid West Coast IPA.

Tried from Draft on 28 May 2024 at 02:53


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Pine and grapefruit. Decent West Coset IPA. Orange pour with decent head and lacing. Bitter finish with some tang. Can.

Tried from Can on 19 Mar 2023 at 00:30


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can from The Gull, North Vancouver
Golden colour, bright, hazy to cloudy. The aroma is mildly piney; the malt base is strong, moderately sweet, with very light caramel accents; the hop flavour is full resinous and piney PNW style, with robust bitterness. Solid

Tried from Can on 14 Dec 2020 at 00:57


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Can, Cask & Barrel. Typical pale amber and hazy appearance with some frothy head. The aroma mixes allium, pine and a bit of grapefruit. On the palate, starts sweet, though it's a fairly pleasant sweetness, mellow balance, and a decent citrusy hop note. All told, decent IPA.

Tried from Can on 02 Dec 2020 at 05:42


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Soft hops aroma and some minimal head with foggy orange body. Flavour is serviceable chewy juicy fruit with a nice sweet finish. Amongst other IPAs I could not identify it but it is perfectly decent for the style.

Tried on 06 Jan 2018 at 20:47


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

47,3 cl can (6,7%) @ Timo A’s Maritimes Tasting. Canned 11.07.2017 Thanks!
Aroma has pineapple juice and resin. Also caramel. Flavour has caramel, minerals, menthol, resiny tones and pineapple juice. Finishes with some alcohol tones. Decent.

Tried from Can on 22 Sep 2017 at 12:50


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

Can - Nice hops and a bitter citrus peel. Clearish orange gold with a decent white head. Bitter peel and a long finish.

Tried from Can on 15 Jul 2017 at 20:13