Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Bottle found on Saltspring Island. Pours with huge foam, not too dense though, and a rather stormy semi-murky brown body. The aroma is sweet biscuit, slight hops. Taste is mostly a wet biscuit with brown sugar notes. Finishes wet again. Smooth enough but there's not much going on here.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Okay murky copper body and some decent foam. Smells of soft honey and caramelly malt. Taste is soft sweet biscuit, honey hints, graham cracker. Smooth finish. Checks the boxes off but not greater than the sum of its parts.
Deanf (9781) reviewed Mount Maxwell from Salt Spring Island Ales 4 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Medium clear gold body with and medium foam. Smells of okay sweet lager hops, corn hints. Taste is all soft sweet hops, a little wet. Easy and simple but certainly not memorable.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Dark clear brownish red body and almost no foam. Smells of good tart raspberry, sweet, mango not really noticeable. Taste is very nice tart raspberry, some grain on the back end. Crisp carbonation and nice lingering maltiness. Enjoyable, a little simple, but it delivers.
Deanf (9781) reviewed Hazy IPA from Salt Spring Island Ales 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Good haze, milky even, with some modest foam. Smells of nice tangy pineapply hops, almost overbearing. Taste is good pine, pineyness, sharp chalk, ends crisp and dry but still refreshing. Nothing new but well balanced.
Deanf (9781) reviewed Ginger Saison from Salt Spring Island Ales 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Okay foam on a light clear gold body. Smells of strong septic ginger on some peppery grain. Taste is nice fresh ginger, working well with spicy cereal notes. Crisp and dry finish. Not bad, a little simple for what it is but delivers what's advertised.
Deanf (9781) reviewed Warbler Wheat Ale from Salt Spring Island Ales 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4.5
Pours with nice big pink foam and carbonated deep pink body, the smell is all tin and sugar - could it get any more unappealing? Flavour is soft rustic blackberry and very mellow wheat grain but there's this awful dog hair aftertaste that makes me cringe sipping it. There's unrefined beer, and then there's this.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Rye Bock from Salt Spring Island Ales 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Found this stray bottle at the Ganges LDB. It's a spring seasonal but I went for it anyway because I'm an egregious ticker. Looks great - a nice reddish-brown colour, bright, with a thin head. The nose is almost toffee it's so rich - a really deep caramel, sweet as heck. It's the same on the palate - very sweet, rich caramel, toffee, some burnt notes. Big body, alcohol in the finish, and some rye chewiness. It's well-balanced, with hop, alcohol and rye all lending different elements to the palate. Then I noticed the abv - at 7.4% it's a doppelbock, stronger than Celebrator or Andechs, the two best of style for me. I'm digging this - it gets no distro obviously but would love to get my hands on some next spring.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bright copper, lasting beige head.Nondescript nose. Light sweet palate with a very late burst of hop bitterness
Earlier Rating: 1/28/2010 Total Score: 2.2
All butterscotch in nose and flavor. Why would someone make a beer to taste like it had diacetyl? Even if it didn’t?
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Poured from 650mL bottle. Near black with dissipating beige head. Mild chocolate and sea salt with a touch of oatmeal. A bit of a watery finish, flavour dissipates too quickly on the palate.