Scotch Irish Corporal Punishment (Corporal’s Bitter Brown)

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

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.

Cask at Volo Cask Days, October 2008. Pours golden. Floral aroma has a hint of caramel, butter, some grass. This is nicely balanced: bitter hops with apricot give way to caramel malt, a small nuttiness with some citrus, then underlying oak.

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.

Roasted, nutty coffee beans emboldened by vanilla currents...Hops are extremely black peppery and get very pugnacious in the finish to the detriment of the pleasant maltiness...This was from a growler, so I need to revisit in fresh tap form...

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.

Draught at Volo. Pours a clear sparkling orange-brown with a small diminishing off-white head. Mild aroma of sweet malt, hops and nuts. Flavour also of malt, hops and nuts with a long bitter finish. Body’s a little thin and there’s a hint of metal or something in the aftertaste. A pretty good version of the style and I enjoyed it but I think Scotch Irish can do better.

[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.

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.