Scotch Irish Corporal Punishment (Corporal’s Bitter Brown)

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

[343-20070618] Tap @ Volo (Toronto, ON). Smells of toasted grassy hops. Clear, dark amber body with a quick bubbly off-white head. Tastes like smokey toasted hops. Medium body is rough. Roughness is a bit much but otherwise all right.

Goldeny brown in colour, Syropy, toasty, nutty, rich caramels and dark chocolate. Very complex and smooth.

Mahogany in colour, long lasting fair sized beige head, good lacing. The aroma was muted because it was served very cold but as it warmed caramel malts, citrus and floral hops started coming through. The flavour wasn’t as hoppy as I expected this to be, maybe brewing this at Heritage has something to do with that. This did have some caramel sweetness, chocolate, earth, some pine, orange citrus. Fairly bitter mouthfeel, medium body, medium carbonation. Finishes long with a mild lingering bitterness. Still pretty good but didn’t live up to my expectations.

Draught at <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/ontario/toronto target=blank>Volo in Toronto, Ontario.

On tap at volo. It was decently bitter, and had a rather refreshing taste. Body seemed to be a bit light, and the finish was quite nice. It seems to want to be a dark ale, but is rather confused. I must say that I liked it, but it needs a few adjustments.

had on tap at Magpie, like has been said before this beer has an identity crisis.... good amount of hops although not a nice finish i found but seems to want to be a brown ale and esb all at the same time being a super hopped big brother of an IPA decent but prefered all the scotch irish brews when Church key brewed them. will be interested to see if they do a imperial stout this year and how it holds up agains last years.

RE-RATE bottled -wussy LCBO labelling says only ’CORPORAL’ and there’s no cricket bat on the graphic anymore. Nice nutty-toffee flavor and aromas, and great little bitter hop bite on the finish. Quite good! ORIGINAL RATING 6 / 3 / 6 / 3 / 11 = 2.9 This is a recent Heritage brewing sampled on Draught at Bar Volo... "It’s too hoppy, unbalanced and missing the nutty yeast and toasted caramel tastes of a Brown ale, it has a the sharp mouth of an ESB and too dark for a pale ale..I have to ask what’s the point? " (POOTZ) Ditto. Plus no head and I found this under-carbonated, which didn’t help. The bitterness is too astingent, and the after taste is grassy and medicinal - not in a cool interesting way. Lacked body. Unengaging.

On draught at the Magpie - came a deep shade of ruby, with an cream coloured head that remained throughout the glass. Aroma is of light chocolate malt and grapefruity hops - not all that dissimilar to the same brewers Sgt. Major IPA actually. Flavour is very hoppy (good! thank you!) right off the bat, along with the chocolate malt, and grapefruit notes, and some really good sticky hop bitterness throughout. The finish is a long wave of bitter notes, none of them over-the-top but certainly not subdued. This is definitely a hop-forward beer on all fronts. There’s a nutty, malty quality that stays in the background. It’s almost like the big brother of the Sgt. Major, an amped up, louder version. Put this in bottles and I will buy it.

On tap at Magpie - came with a decent sized bone white head which stayed around in one form or another throughout the glass. Beer itself a deep copper colour when held up to the light (candle). Aroma actually quite similar to the Sgt. Major. Taste, though, that’s where it all comes into place......some earthiness, light chocolate notes, a tad of sweetness, and hazelnut; but mainly lots of really quality malt and grassy/citrusy hops......and then the finish.....waves and waves of bitterness, but not unpleasant in any way, just the perfect finale. A really complex beer with all sorts of stuff happening at different times, and the whole is much more than the sum of its excellent parts. A combination of three beers, really - a brown ale, a very strong bitter, and an IPA. Perry is widely considered to be one of the most intriguing and adventurous brewers in Ontario (alongside Black Oak), and this beer, the second I’ve had from Scotch Irish, cements that reputation and makes me crave more.