Whistle Buoy Brewing

Microbrewery in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Whistle Buoy Brewing

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Market Square, Lower Courtyard, #63, 560 Johnson St, Victoria, V8W 3C6, Canada

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5.3/10 Appearance 5 Aroma 5 Flavor 5.5 Texture 5 Overall 5.5
473mL can, pours an opaque, pale, milky yellow, tiny head. Aroma is full of allium, plenty of chalk, and some earthiness. Flavour is cleaner than expected, with dry oats, some earthiness, light chalkiness, and very restrained hoppiness. Sloppy, pointless, but inoffensive.
Tried from Can on 23 Apr 2026 at 05:41

6.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Quite pale. No had. Light shallots on this one, but also some minty stone fruit sort of hop expression as well. Malts seem minimal. Light malt. Has a mellow character, with lemon rind notes, again that mint. The malt is suboptimal, hop bitterness lacking, it feels like they're aiming for aromatic hop only without any of the other aspects of a beer. Kind of exposes all the flaws in the game of these two breweries.
Tried from Can on 23 Apr 2026 at 05:39

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Poured from 473mL can. Hazy blonde with small white head. Juicy citrus and stonefruit hops with touch of allium and dankness, mild creamy oatiness. A bit subdued. Average.
Tried from Can at Jak's Beer-Wine-Spirits - 41st Ave on 23 Apr 2026 at 05:37

5.3/10 Appearance 5 Aroma 5.5 Flavor 5.5 Texture 5 Overall 5
473mL can. Pours murky pale yellow with a minimal white head. Soap, orange citrus, pine, and allium on the nose; pretty yeasty and Citra-y. Flavour has tons of allium, icing sugar, light lemon citrus; laden with yeast and poor hops. It's not the worst, but it's far from good.
Tried from Can on 23 Apr 2026 at 01:40

6.3/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Opaque, pale purplish. No head. The aroma certainly hints at an amount of acetic acid. This is acidity, some black currant fruit. The acidity is pretty harsh. The fruit's actually good, but the base is I guess I would say imperfect.
Tried on 12 Apr 2026 at 06:48

5.6/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 5.5 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
355mL can, pours a cloudy bright pinkish red with a small off-white head. Aroma has plenty of acidic currants, some mixed bugs, and a touch of acetonic notes. Flavour is extremely acetonic, with heavily vinegary notes, acetonic currants, and a touch of mixed bugs that don’t rescue this from the vinegar and acetone. Difficult to drink.
Tried from Can on 12 Apr 2026 at 06:46

5.8/10 Appearance 5 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 5 Overall 6
355mL can, pours a cloudy pale blonde with a small white head. Aroma has plenty of lacto, some wild bugs, and a touch of faded grape skins. Flavour is along the same lines, with dry, faded grape skins, wild bugs, some bitter wild yeast, and a touch of lacto. Finishes dry, bitter, and faded. Pleasant enough.
Tried from Can on 12 Apr 2026 at 04:17

7/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
This one is very pale. The aroma has some of that vinous character, but is a bit odd. On the palate, it's got a bit of tartness, but also vinous notes. Moderate acidity. Not bad.
Tried on 12 Apr 2026 at 04:11

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 5.5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
355mL can. Pours murky red with an off-white head. Nice earthy, currant-forward nose. Flavour is mouth-puckeringly sour, loads of currants, but fucking hell that's a lot of acidity. I like the fruit character, but this is completely out of whack. Did they test this beer at all before canning?
Tried from Can at Whistle Buoy Brewing on 12 Apr 2026 at 02:49

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
355mL can. Pours a very pale hazy blonde with almost no head. Very musty, vinous nose. Flavour is quite tart with a more subued vinous character than the nose, very little malt character. Tastes more like a sour wine spritzer than a beer. Pleasant, but unimpressive.
Tried from Can at Whistle Buoy Brewing on 12 Apr 2026 at 00:18