Gales Trafalgar Ale

Formerly brewed at Gales
Style: Old Ale
Horndean, England

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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Bottle conditioned Old Ale. Excellent! Rich Imperial Stout aroma. Ruby port colour. Tastes like a cross between an Imperial Stout and a Kriek Lambic. Light but oily texture with an acid oak bite. Damn, this is a fine ale! Complex and different enough to provide hours of amusement, but very tasty and drinkable - some challenges for the unwary, but the challenges come with stabilisers.

Smakade på en gammal flaska, minns inte årtalet hösten 2008 som hade fantastiska honungs- och marsipantoner, torkad frukt, portvin. Jag är svag för denna typ av öl, därav det höga betyget.

Cherry sherry and better pepper in winey honey…Bitter butter and ample apples in silky milk…Time for my pills…(Mine too was 9%)

Red-amber, hazy; yellow rim, fast gone. English hops smell, alcohol (brandy-like) and brambles, very specific. Slight acidity, sweetness, fruit (brambles, sloeberries). Citrus retronasal. Oily mouthfeel, very nice aromas untile in the aftertaste. Nice beer, quite in the line of other Gale's ales.

Bottled, 2005 vintage (10%). Clear brownish amber. Aroma of toffee and dry white wine. Richly malty with some peppery brandy character. There’s some leather, lactic acidity and licorice.Complex andvery interesting.

Probably the most expensive bottle of beer I have purchased. Was it worth it? Well what I got was a bronze coloured ale tasting a bit like a port.Strong inviting aroma ansd a compex mix of tastes.Strong alcohol presence with some sweetness but not overpoweringly so. The bottle said 10 per cent not 9. A unique, well balanced ale-not sure though if it really was worth the price but its too late to worry about that.

Pours brown with no head to speak of. Smells of caramel, dark fruit, sherry, port wine. Tastes sweet and sugary with a nice complimentary tartness and a fruity finish.

UPDATED: JUL 21, 2005 Bottled, Vintage 2005, 10% ABV. Rerate. Dark red-ish. Berry nose, slight marzipan and LOADS of Danish(which was it?) cheese. Cellary. Brother of Prize Old Ale, sour, syrupy, aged feel, wood, slight licorice, ripe apples. I like this one! Medium-full bodied. Complex. Nice balance of sourness, sweetness, and body. And an interesting bitterness.

Reddish amber colour. Creamy white low head. Sweet aroma of red cherries, candied nuts, tanins, oak and cognac. Thick and sweet flavour woth a light oaky acidity. caramel, raisin, nuts and port. Alcoholic finish with touches of paint...

A unique beer in its style , poor carbonation, high alcoolic rate, liquorous taste. To drink at the end of a good dinner during a cold winter night. PS I don’t think that the alcoolic rate of the beer is 4,2%, the bottle I drank was 9%