Old Mill Elora Irish Ale

Brewed by Trafalgar Brewing
Style: Irish Ale
Oakville, Canada

650 ML bomber. A hard pour revealed a clear copper-brown beer with virtually no head and weak carbonation. Aromas of musty fruit sweetness and graininess slight sour tones. Fair start with some burnt toffee sweetness, some roasty malts finishes abruptly with the fuggles hops coming through and a slight smokey woody bready taste. Mild sweetish and musty... The lack of carbonation gives the impression of a watery mouth feel..that’s too bad because this brew has potential but just doesn’t deliver.....nice taste, very drinkable but too overly mild and understated to reveal the craft in its recipe...a nice ale not a great one, I like this ale but I don’t know why.

650ml brown bottle. Poured chestnut brown, fast vanishing white head. Dusty malt aroma, toffee. Light roasty malt flavour, some cola sweetness. Very light hop note coming in at the end. Drying roasted finish. Light body and carboantion.

650 ml bomber from the LCBO. best before april 2009. pours dark ruby with minimal carbonation and a little tan head. aroma, INFECTION. sour abrasive spoiled beer. flavour, INFECTION. sour, rotten, spoiled beer. stupid trafalger, right when i thought you had this thing figured out. i will be returning this bottle and luckily the LCBO is very accomidating about these types of situations.

RateBeerians Tasting - Beach Brews. Bottle: Frankly I can brew a better ale than this.

Aroma of burnt fruit and licorice. Pours a flat ruby brown. Licorice and earthy malt. Pretty thin for an irish ale. Back to the drawing board chumps.

Ok, so this isn’t an Irish ale... more like a crummy nut brown. Pours out a clear medium brown with a rather large foamy tan head that simmers down to a cover leaving some mess along the way. Dry biscuit malts, sweeter caramel, faint dusty fruits, nuts and weak weak coffeeness. The taste is nuts and toffee for the immediate impression, random fruits of the non bright citrus family, biscuit, cardboard, gets more sour on the back end as I near the bottom of my glass. Decent bitter levels but the bitterness is attached to the wrong flavours for the style. Not all that smooth for some reason, sort of an oily middle, lengthy dry bitter finish.

Reddy orange, clear with an off white head. Fruity aroma with vanilla accents. Smell like a weak cola. Unbalanced very minimal hops. Sweet watery caramel and cookies. Almost cloying. The body stills very quickly. The finish is quite sweet with some burnt bitters.

Pours a clear brownish amber with no head. Pungent aroma of vaguely sweet mold. Tastes somewhat artificial - lots of hops but skunky, like a trashy bottled Euro-lager. Ugh. Flat & thin. I am SO glad I didn’t invite my father to share this with me. Ah well, try everything once.