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Old Mill Elora Irish Ale

Percentile
14
overall
Brewed by Trafalgar Brewing
Style: Irish Ale

Oakville, Canada

bottled
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
662.45/5.02.48/5.05%5English pint
Commercial Description:
Irish ales are dark and rich in colour but are smooth and developed as an every day beer. A complex blend of imported hops and roasted barley give this ale a light aroma and bittersweet finish
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 wilderthanyou (415), Guelph, Ontario, Canada
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/57/103/516/20
Sep 12, 2007  
Pleasantly surprised. Didn’t expect much at all. Looks like flat coca cola. This sucker has no head what so ever. The appearance and lack of inticing aroma aside, the flavours are pretty good. Starts out with some malty sweetness, a touch of caramel, a little roasted maltiness, a little hops in the finish, but not quite enough to balance this beer out. The problem with this beer is that it’s just to damn watery, it hinders the flavour. Still, not a bad effort from a relitivley new brewery.


 Cletus (5052), Connecticut, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Jan 8, 2009  
Bottle courtesy of matt7215. Pours a mahogany red with a thin white head. Smells of roses, sweet malt, citrus. Tastes sweet and caramelly with a full bodied spicy finish.


 Nekronos (2263), Xalapa, Mexico
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/514/20
Jul 26, 2007  
Nice brewed, a little smoked, and ash black coloured, but it has that hoppy flavour that is quite strong in Canadians.


 JesseM (666), Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Nov 17, 2008  
341mL bottle from my OCB mixed pack from the LCBO. Weird format to see a Trafalgar product in. I was pretty hesitant about this one, given my previous experiences with the horrors of this brewery. What I got was something startling. Pours a deep and dark amber with a large beige head. The aroma is actually NOT of vinegar and awefulness, but real malts! And a hint of hops too! Flavour is surprisingly rich, and there’s a great malty core to it that reminds me of actual GOOD beer, not the crap that usually comes out of Trafalgar. I can’t believe it’s not infected! Maybe the smaller bottle format is the key they need to not completely destroying everything they make? I really can’t believe I’m rating a Trafalgar beer above a 1.


 AWS9 (227), Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/102/515/20
Dec 26, 2008  
341 ml bottle from OCB Discovery Pack. Pours a nice reddish brown, with a decent beige head. Slight spicy malt aroma. Grain, spice, and malt taste. Some hop present, but more would add some needed bitterness, as it disappears quickly. Actually a fairly enjoyable beer, though I am a sucker for irish ales.


 cfrancis (311), Gloucester, Ontario, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/514/20
Feb 17, 2009  
Reddish brown colour, with a barley nose. Taste is hop and barley with nut. A little different but not noteworthy.


 rederic (1811), montréal, Quebec, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Jan 9, 2008  
Dark amber color, with almost no head, toasted, biscuity malt nose, with some cookie dough notes,with some hints of chocolate, toffee and chestnut, with some fruity accents of plum and date in the aroma follows through on medium-bodied palate with a a toasty, biscuity, grainy malt character, a fruity note of prunes and raisins, with some toffeeish and nutty accents, with a subtle chocolatey flavor, a faint flowery hop grassiness, leading towards a malty, chocolatey,lingering hop bitterness finish.


 yarry (370), Waterdown, Ontario, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/57/103/514/20
Nov 3, 2007  
650ml bottle, 5% a/v Pours an almost cola brown with some decent carbonation and a thin tan head. Nose is malty, as well as roasted nuts and caramel. Taste is roasted nuts, dark malts, and chocolate, with a decent mouthfeel and a nice dark finish. Not sure why this beer is rated so low, I really liked it.



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