Rare Bird Craft Beer
Microbrewery
in Guysborough,
Nova Scotia,
Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Rare Bird Pub and Eatery
Our commitment to Atlantic Canada’s oldest brewer means we handcraft our beer in small batches using no preservatives. We combine fresh ingredients with pure Glanbùrn artesian water for optimal flavour, creating year-round and seasonal brews that stay true to our constant values of good taste over time. Each bottle captures the history, flavour and rare character of our home on Nova Scotia’s remote Eastern Shore. Learn more about Guysborough’s proud brewing heritage and how our craft beers give you a taste of our unique seacoast spirit.
Robinvboyer (8065) reviewed Sea Piper from Rare Bird Craft Beer 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Can.
Roasty, good coffee flavor, light vanilla. Solid mouth feel, soft carb, medium bitter. Not terrible, but pretty middle of the road.
RennyDoig (4859) reviewed Stilt Walker from Rare Bird Craft Beer 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
473mL can. Pours clear gold with a small white head. Not much on the nose. Flavour has some biscuit malts, damp straw. Not really much of anything going on here.
fiulijn (28383) reviewed Red Ale from Rare Bird Craft Beer 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Tasting at Erik's
Hazy red-amber color; gushing bottle. Off smell, yeast; highly carbonated, harsh mouthfeel, too much yeast, covering the caramel and malt.
Infected.
fiulijn (28383) reviewed Full Steam Stout from Rare Bird Craft Beer 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Courtesy of Josh
Black color, small head. Strange aroma, rough, roasted malts, dust, stale. The flavor is anonymous, there is some caramel, not evident if it’s a Stout or a Porter, anyway there is a suspicious sourness that indicates infection.
Oakes (33770) reviewed Full Steam Stout from Rare Bird Craft Beer 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Light brown. Very coffee nose. Tart, cherry, with a touch of sour coffee. Goes nowhere...faults.
mcberko (47797) reviewed Full Steam Stout from Rare Bird Craft Beer 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
650mL bottle, pours a deep dark brown / black with a small beige head. Aroma brings out toasted malt and dry coffee. Flavour brings out some light tartness, but there is almost enough body to mask, with coffee and dry toasted malt. It's alright overall, but there are some obvious discernible flaws. Decent, but flawed.
Oakes (33770) reviewed Red Ale from Rare Bird Craft Beer 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Dark amber, bit of haze. Thin head. The aroma is toasty with a little bit of hop fruitiness and a whiff of brettanomyces. There’s a bit of a chocolatey note, with more of that toastiness that seems to come from the rye. The hop aroma drops out, and there’s a fair bit of bitterness in the finish. The brett is kicking in, starting to thin the body out a bit, and lending...well...it’s a character that’s obviously not supposed to be there but I enjoy it anyway. A lucky accident, that we opened at just the right time.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Red Ale from Rare Bird Craft Beer 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle - Light cedar and apple notes. Clearish Amber with a small beige head. Funky, caramel and some bitterness. A bit off but ok.
mcberko (47797) reviewed Red Ale from Rare Bird Craft Beer 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
500mL bottle, pours a hazy reddish amber with a small off-white head. Aroma brings out toasted malt and some stale bread. Flavour is along the same lines, with toasted malt and stale bread. Light bittering hops. Something a bit off here. Not feeling this.
deyholla (22839) reviewed Maple Ale from Rare Bird Craft Beer 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
On tap at the brewpub. Pours a clear deep gold with a white head that lasts throughout the beer and laces. Aroma has a decent amount of maple with some sweet grains and a straw backbone. Flavor combines maple and sweet grains with a bit of earthy straw underlying.