About
Nelson Brewing Company is a Certified Organic craft brewery located in the cultural and recreational heart of the West Kootenay region. Situated in Nelson’s original 125 year old brewery building, Nelson Brewing Company is committed to producing natural, hand-crafted, traditionally styled beers.
Filter & sort
Show
4.9/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Pours muddy brown, minimal head. Weak biscuit on the nose. Flavour is more weak biscuit, slight smokiness, chewy molasses. Modest carbonation. Pretty subdued, hardly memorable.
Tried on 23 Oct 2020 at 01:47

6.6/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
Very good foam, nice cloudy orange body, large carbonation bubbles. Strong sweet hops on the nose, pine, hints of clove. Flavour is good piney hops, mellow malt notes. Mouthfeel is a little too watery, could use more oiliness and crispness. Still rather enjoyable.
Tried on 23 Oct 2020 at 01:06

5.8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5
Good foam on a clear yellow body, soft sweet fruity hops on the nose that really should be stronger. Flavour is some sweet hops, some bitter hops, but it all comes across rather boozy. Oily mouthfeel and that alcohol lingers, odd for only six and a half percent. Seems disjointed, needs more attention to detail.
Tried on 19 Sep 2020 at 04:06

5.9/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Nice foam on a weak clear coppery body, lots of lemon and lime on the nose... maybe that's the spruce tip, but it doesn't smell right, more like Mountain Dew than anything else. Flavour is lots of grain, some lemon, slight grass maybe if I think about it real hard. Finish is nicely dry. Seems to underdeliver what's advertised.
Tried on 19 Sep 2020 at 01:57

6.5/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Nice yellow body and very good white foam, earthy pineapple and piney hops on the nose. Flavour is soft pineapply hops, rather subtle and lacking character. Okay dry mouthfeel. Passable but hardly interesting.
Tried on 19 Sep 2020 at 01:04

5/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
The aroma is soft honey with vague grai, has cloudy gold and kind of a bad tinny foam going on. Flavour is all sugary malt and tin. Mouthfeel is more cloying tin, bad carbonation, at least they served it to me cold. This is incredibly mediocre.
Tried on 03 Aug 2020 at 22:53

5.5/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
On tap at Broken Hill in Nelson, pours a hazy blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out gentle stone fruits, citrus hops, and biscuity malt. Flavour is rather chalky, with some dank hops, biscuity malt, and chalk. Too chalky and muffled. Meh.
Tried from Draft on 13 Jul 2020 at 04:45

6.6/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can from The Gull, North Vancouver
Amber colour, clean, with compact head. Mild aroma of malt and biscuit. The malt base is quite delicate, a bit biscuity, with a touch of caramel; the hopping is balanced, but the hop quality is too timid, there's hardly any character.
Overall, it's a clean beer, old style IPA but decently made.
Tried from Can on 28 Apr 2020 at 06:38

6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
473ml can. Pours a murky orange-brown with yeast particles in suspension and a medium, foamy, short lived, pale pink head that leaves spotty lacing. Mild aroma of wheat malt, raspberry, earthy yeast and floral hops. Sweet flavour of raspberry, wheat malt, floral, yeast and a hint of citrus in a dry, slightly tart finish. An easy drinking Fruit Ale, good for summer.
Tried from Can on 18 Nov 2019 at 05:10

6.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
473ml can. Pours a hazy orange-yellow with a medium, foamy, long lasting, white head that leaves curtains of lace. Sweet fruity aroma of bready pale malt, caramel, pineapple, apricot, orange peel, grapefruit and pine. Sweet fruity flavour of caramel malt, apricot, pineapple, orange peel, mango, grapefruit, pine resin and earthy yeast in a crisp, dry, mild bitter, hoppy finish. Medium body with an oily texture and average carbonation. Juicy, tasty and enjoyable.
Tried from Can on 12 Nov 2019 at 05:06