Scotch Irish Corporal Punishment (Corporal’s Bitter Brown)

Brewed by Heritage Brewing Limited
Style: Brown Ale
Carleton Place, Canada

Don’t know if this was a bad bottle. But this was way off from what I was expecting. Taste was bitter coffee. I didn’t detect very much else.

Bottled sample. Deep amber in colour with medium carbonation. Malty milk chocolate aromas upfront, along with citrusy undertones. Tastes a bit like a Terry’s chocolate orange, but with some earhty+herbal hops thrown in for good measure. Light mouthfeel and moderate bitterness. Fairly refreshing for a brown ale. Somewhat British bitter-like.

341 ml bottle from LCBO, served at cellar temperature in a tulip glass. NO05/08.

App.: Clear medium copper with a fair tan head. Aroma: Tangy, sour, infected, nutty, hints of fruit and a little earthy hops. Palate: Medium body and fairly soft carbonation. Flav.: Still tangy, sour and infected with some nuttiness, light fruitiness and a little bread crust; on swallowing, it is thin and acrid with out of balance bitterness.

I suspect that something is wrong. This has defects I’ve noted in their other products. A shame, because I bet Perry would have done it well.

Re-rated Sept. 29/09 with a fresh bottle from the brewery.

App.: Deep copper, clear, nice off-white froth. Aroma: Lots of nuts and burnt sugar, earthy and woody hops, stark, English malts. Palate: Medium body and moderate carbonation. Flav.: Similar to the nose with plenty of earthy, burnt, British malts and nuttiness, some earthy and woody hops; dry with fair bitterness.

Much better fresh and uninfected.

Clear brown amber with tan foamy head. Roasted nutty coffee aroma. Smooth dry bitterness, so much so it almost evaporates in the mouth. Dry vanilla, toffee and woody nut flavour with a woody after-taste. An acquired taste that I have yet to acquire.

341 mL stubby. Brown with a ring of head. Lots of caramel and nuts in the aroma. Tonnes of malt and tonnes of bitterness in the flavour. The hops must go in early, though, because there’s not a lot of flavour from the hops, and even less aroma. There’s also quite a bit of chocolate in there, along with come espresso. I’ve been drinking this on tap for a while, and I have to admit that I had no idea that this beer is only 4.3% It tastes so much bigger. Great beer.

Bouteille de 341 ml. Dégusté vec french tickler. Biere de couleur rouille cuivré avec un mince collet moyennement collant. Odeur de noix, toast et malt. Gout de noix egalement, houblon et un peu de sel.

Shared with Pyrozoid. Caramel/copper poor with a quickly fading off-white head. Aromas of caramel, smoked almonds, wood chips, light pepper notes, white chocolate. Jesus lord!... Starts with a bitter bang, then comes some caramel sweetness all ending with a crisp dry finish. What character for a 4% brew! Hoppy flavors, hints of liquid smoke and caramel malts. Medium body. Impressive.

Brown bottle, 341 ml, purchased at the LCBO, savoured on January 5 2009; eye: copper, clear, slight effervescence, tan head that falls and turns into a tiny layer, a bit of lacing; nose: malt, smoke, light ash, slight nut; mouth: roasted, malt, smoke, good presence of hops that we guess behind those rather powerful tastes, light dust, finale in roasted malt with a good presence of hops and a slight presence of nuts, light astringency, mildly bitter, slightly harsh texture, medium body, not much carbonation; overall: surprising FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 341 ml, achetée à la LCBO, savourée le 5 janvier 2009; œil : cuivrée, claire, très légère effervescence, mousse fauve qui tome et se transforme en une petite couverture, un peu de dentelle; nez : malt, fumé, léger cendré, très léger noisette; bouche : torréfaction, malt, fumé, bonne présence de houblon qu’on devine derrière des saveurs plutôt puissantes, léger poussière, finale en malt torréfié avec une bonne présence de houblon et une p’tite présence de noisette, légère astringence, moyennement amère, texture légèrement rugueuse, corps moyen, peu carbonatée; en résumé : surprenante