Big Spruce Brewing
Microbrewery
in Baddeck,
Nova Scotia,
Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Big Spruce Brewing
Ten years later, Big Spruce Brewing is focused on creating exceptional ingredient-driven beer. All of our ales and lagers are brewed with organic grain & hops, and we continually strive to keep giving you the perfect pint, every time.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 18
A real treat from a small-town brewery that succeeds in a wide variety of brewing styles. Hazy deep straw body with a thin white head. Nose hints at alcohol, rich malt and some sweet fruit. The taste profile features stone fruit, appricot, solid west coast hops with some fruit sweetness. Dense and slightly slick. The hops keep the profile from becoming to slick. Nice fresh snap in the taste elements. I'm all in!
Gluepot (959) reviewed Cerberus 2025 from Big Spruce Brewing 2 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Slightly hazy amber body with fluffy white head with ample lacing. Punchy nose with citrus fruit and sweet malt. Solid, complex hoppiness with citrus, tropical fruit and some resin in a nice blend. The sweet malt is a great background. A small brewery with a talent for IPAs as well as other styles.
RennyDoig (4318) reviewed Cerberus (2022) from Big Spruce Brewing 3 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
473mL can. Pours hazy gold with a white head. Bright pine, caramelized orange peels on the nose. Flavour has bitter orange peels, pine, some dirty dankness, and a solid malt base. Pretty solid IPA.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Battery Park Beer Bar. Pours clear gold with a white head. Lots of cracker malts and crisp grassy hops on the nose. Flavour has more of the same, dry grass, cracker malts, very crisp. Crisp and clean, well done.
jerseyislandbeer (5817) reviewed Tim's IPA from Big Spruce Brewing 7 months ago
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.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
A 473ml can from NSLC Inverness. Abv 6.8. A enjoyable Black IPA with citrus hops
Robinvboyer (8025) reviewed Gimme Nelson from Big Spruce Brewing 9 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask days 2015. Huge green hop cone aroma. Subtle pine, little citrus. Zero balance, not much in malts. As it warms it gets greener, to the point of chewing on a hop cone. Medium bitterness, green, grassy, hop oil finish.
Boutip (9699) reviewed Tripel from Big Spruce Brewing 10 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Can: Poured a golden color ale with a large white foamy head with OK retention and some lacing. Aroma of sweet Belgian malt notes with some light yeasty notes and some alcohol notes. Taste is a mix of sweet belgian malt notes with some light yeasty notes with some alcohol notes. Body is full for style with good carbonation. Enjoyable but lacking some attenuation and also a bit too much alcohol is showing.
tderoeck (22679) reviewed Tim's IPA from Big Spruce Brewing 10 months ago
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.
mcberko (47051) reviewed ¿Qué Onda? from Big Spruce Brewing 10 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
473mL can, pours a cloudy golden with a small white head. Aroma has tequila barrels, orange piths, and some wheatiness. Flavour is full of pithy orange juice, tequila barrels, and a touch of salt. A bit murky and pithy, but nice tequila character.
