Salt Spring Island Ales

Microbrewery in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Salt Spring Brewing Co.

Established in 1998

Contact
270 Furness Rd, Salt Spring Island, V8K 1Z7, Canada
+18443887742
Description
From deep in our mountain spring comes the cleanest, freshest water for our Salt Spring Island Ales. Piped straight from the spring into the brew house, this gorgeous water is combined with organic Canadian two row pale malt and other natural ingredients to create a lineup of distinctly Island-made ales.

Whenever possible, we source local ingredients such as island grown hops, honey and heather. Our highly flavourful beers pair wonderfully with good food and are the perfect accompaniment to locally-sourced gastronomic fare. Brewed entirely by hand, our beer is made in small batches using traditional, unhurried methods.
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mcberko
mcberko (49004) reviewed
Dry Porter from Salt Spring Island Ales
16 years ago
4.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 6
Pours dark brown with a beige head. Very dry, roasted malt porter. Alright.
Tried on 13 Feb 2010 at 19:59
mcberko
mcberko (49004) reviewed
Pale Ale from Salt Spring Island Ales
16 years ago
4.2/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4
Pours a golden orange. Almost nonexistent aroma of grains. Flavour is a boring balance of hops and malt. Not too bad.
Tried on 13 Feb 2010 at 19:58
mcberko
mcberko (49004) reviewed
Golden Ale from Salt Spring Island Ales
16 years ago
3.6/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Pours golden with a white head. Taste is very grainy/bready, with some light floral and citrus notes. Not terrible.
Tried on 13 Feb 2010 at 19:56
Irishboy
Irishboy (4711) reviewed
Dry Porter from Salt Spring Island Ales
17 years ago
4.2/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 4
Bomber from Spinnaker Wine Merchants; Nose of coffee and light funkiness; dark brown with a small beige head; flavor of light (infected) tartness and coffee. Not very good!
Tried on 08 Sep 2008 at 20:51
jhaase
jhaase (15084) reviewed
Fireside Winter Ale from Salt Spring Island Ales
18 years ago
4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 4
bottle. Red orange, creamy head. Smoked, herbal, light rubbery nose. Wooden, rubbery, vegetables. Light sparkly sticky mouthfeel. Meh
Tried from Bottle on 07 Dec 2007 at 19:25
crit200
crit200 (5396) reviewed
Gulf Islands Mayne Sail Ale from Salt Spring Island Ales
18 years ago
6.1/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
Hazy light brown, creamy tan head.Lightly fruity floral malt nose.Lightly fruity malt profile with mild,medium length hop finish.
Tried on 26 Sep 2007 at 13:42
Oakes
Oakes (34517) reviewed
IPA from Salt Spring Island Ales
18 years ago
5.4/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Honeyish amber colour. Crackery, caramelly aroma. Flavour is crackery, tobaccoey with a mild bitterness but a fairly dry finish. More EPA than anything else.
Tried on 14 Sep 2007 at 23:35
Oakes
Oakes (34517) reviewed
Heather Ale from Salt Spring Island Ales
18 years ago
4/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3
Beige colour with slight haze. Fruity aroma - raspberry and heather notes. Sour, with hints of heather and pale bready malt. I can’t fault the tartness because these ancient ales can be interpreted that way, but in this case it was a bit too much given the subtlety of the heather signature.
Tried from Can on 11 Sep 2007 at 21:56
Lubiere
Lubiere (25016) reviewed
Golden Ale from Salt Spring Island Ales
20 years ago
4.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Golden ale with floaties, and a thick white head. A rather citrusy aroma, like a lemon infusion. In mouth, a watery malt with lemony notes, showing lactic acids, thin and bad. Seems they have problems bottling...
Tried on 20 Aug 2006 at 10:31
Lubiere
Lubiere (25016) reviewed
Pale Ale from Salt Spring Island Ales
20 years ago
3/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 2 Texture 2 Overall 2
Golden copper ale with a thin white head. Sweet yeasty aroma, with light nuttyness amd medicine notes. In mouth, an infected mess, with vinagry malt, and rubber. Unpleasant and a drain pour.
Tried on 20 Aug 2006 at 10:28