Scotch Irish Corporal Punishment (Corporal’s Bitter Brown)

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

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.

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.

Bottle. Pours a lightly hazed brown with a thin soda bubble white head. Nutty and toasty, with a hint of sesame oil. Medium bodied, light astringent bitterness, with a good amount of toasty bitterness. Finishes up with a good bit of bitterness and more nutty sesame toast flavors.

Dark amber, thin off-white head. Strong hop (english) and malt flavour. Aftertaste bittering, but a good beer. I had this on draught at the Winking Judge in Hamilton, Ontario on 13-September-2003 with Josh (Oakes) and Scott (Publican).

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.

Massive re-rate. I had this a few times over the summer and this is not the beer I loved at its cask launch a couple of years back. On tap, it is oily, thin, and sickly sweet. There is some nice bitterness here, certainly more than you would expect from a brown (in truth though, this seems more like an ESB to me), but there is an ashy burnt base too. Still a nice session pint, no where near the world-beater I remember. If it changes next year, I’ll be happy to re-rate. Original 8/4/8/4/18. Cask, Bow and Arrow, Toronto. Dark orange pour, small cask head. A mix of fruit/sweet hop aroma. Medium body in mouthfeel, nice malt base, not watery like so many Ontario cask ales, wonderful nutty taste - true to its brown ale roots with lots of malt to back it up and a ton of hops that are actually very well balanced. A classic session ale or a treat on its own.

Tapped an amber-brown with a 2 finger white cap...laced the glass well. Aromas of light caramel over citrus-hay tones Medium-light body, sandy mouth feel, hoppy-citrus character. You get a momentary chew on light crystal malts up front before a rush of brown ale flavors hit: fruits, citrus-pine hopping light nuttty-woody- toasty....all wrapped in a mild body...finishes bitter like an ESB..... a tad off balance and missing the mild maltiness we drink Brown ales for. Although well crafted this ale seems to have an identiy crisis...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? Is the brown ale label just a legitimizing vehicle to carry alpha oils in an unbalanced hop-forward ale? Not my cup of tea in a brown ale

tap @ beer bistro. big hoppy citrus aroma. Bitter does indeed hit thee. Fruity aftertaste if not a bit astringent.