Trafalgar Malted Corpse

Brewed by Trafalgar Brewing
Style: Brown Ale
Oakville, Canada

This Ale poured a deep brown colour with next to no head. To the nose there are scents of ripe fruit, sweet brown malts and nuts. Firts taste was quite watery. Flavours of malt and next to no hopp at all. Smooth but lacking in solid flavour. Finish has a little bit of hopp bitterness but not much. This isn’t a bad beer but its kind of lifless.

Bottle from the LCBO. I get the feeling this review is going to read like a mash-up of the previous ones, as I can’t add much new to what everyone else has said. Clear ruby-brown colour, very still body with no head. Very mild aroma, some decent sweet malt with hints of graham cracker. Thin, lifeless body with very minimal carbonation. Flavour is not unpleasant, but also pretty one-dimensional - mild malt and brown sugar, perhaps a hint of coffee, quick finish with a faint wisp of hops. As tupalev suggests, it comes across as a mediocre homebrew. Meh.

Bottle, LCBO. At least it is not infected, always a bonus when buying Trafalgar beers! Standard orange pour, little head. Sweet aroma. Taste is just a standard homebrew sweet Ontario English ale sort of thing. Not offensive, kind of thin, neither here nor there. Drinkable, photoshop label, not sure what else needs to be said.

Brown bottle, 650 ml, best before January 2010, purchased at the LCBO on November 3 2009, savoured on November 11 2009; eye: ruby, clear, no effervescence, beige head that turns into a tiny ring, no lacing; nose: water, light roasted malt, light caramel, nutty; mouth: water, roasted malt, caramel, spices, light dusty, nutty, watery finale in roasted malt with presence of spices, light body, average carbonation, slightly bitter, lightly acrid; overall: quite ordinary FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 650 ml, meilleure avant janvier 2010, achetée à la LCBO le 3 novembre 2009, savourée le 11 novembre 2009; œil : rubis, claire, pas d’effervescence, petite mousse beige qui se transforme en un minuscule anneau, pas de dentelle; nez : eau, léger malt torréfié, léger caramel, noisette; bouche : eau, malt torréfié, caramel, épices, léger poussière, noisette, finale aqueuse en malt torréfié avec présence d’épices, corps léger, carbonatation moyenne, très légèrement amère, légèrement âcre; en résumé : b’en ordinaire

Bottle: Poured a deep clear brown color ale with a large foamy head with OK retention and some lacing. Aroma of unrefined and stale grain is not very enticing. Taste is also dominated by stale grain with some light residual sugar. Noe ester or hops presence could be identified. Body is about average with medium carbonation. No brewing flaws per say but just an incredibly bad brown ale.

A brown ale, with initial foaming white head on mahogoney coloured body. Malty aroma. Somewhat sour, like infected sour, still drinkable. Not that inetresting. Average mouthfeel.

650 ml bottle from LCBO, Decided (unwisely) to give it a try as I was buying a bottle of their recommended their Hop Nouveau. I’ll put it down to misplaced optimism. Pours a brown clear ale in the glass. No retained cap. Looks flat and tastes flat. Poses a halloween trick on the drinker....just what is this? It’s not a porter....too thin, sweet and undefined. Is it a weak dark ale dressed as a cola or a sugary flat brown ale masquerading as a porter? All I know is it was sweet and flat, thin and had that signature undefinable unpleasant funky taste riding just below the malt profile. Another poor effort by this brewer and at this price a rip off also.