Trafalgar Hop Nouveau

Brewed by Trafalgar Brewing
Style: English Pale Ale
Oakville, Canada

Serve in English pint, Shaker

Pours hazy with strong head. Aroma isn’t very hoppy and more of a sour feel. Taste is stronger in malts than hops leaving a sour/bitter taste.

2011 version. Hazy gold pour, 1 finger of head. Grapefruit, Orange and a bit of buttery diactyl in the aroma. Grapefruit, pine up front. A very slight bit buttery. Small gobs of lacing. Fairly easy drinking, but this one was probably on its last legs. Had they the desire to ever listen to criticm even in the slightest this would be a beer withpotential.

[bottle] Sweet malt aroma with some unappetizing funk that is horsey in a bad way. Cloudy dark orange under a white ring. Flavour of vitamins and powdered sugar candy. Wet hop vegetal character with some cardboard and lotus root. Light to medium body, moderate carbonation, sweet candy finish.

Pretty good hoppy ale. I’m not sure if I can really detect some kind of difference between this wet hop brewing strategy. I guess the hops taste is a little fresh, but not sure if I’m just imagining that. In any case it’s pretty decent. 650 ml bottle

Bomber. Pale orange with a white head. Peach, mild citrus, some orange zest and malt. Decent carbonation, somewhat sweet, becomes very dry, get a bit of coriander at the end, very surprised at how drinkable this was considering I don’t think I have ever really had a decent beer from trafalgar before.

from bottle. apparently bottled on the 20th September, and drunk on the 22nd, thats pretty fresh and it’s certainly a unique way of selling the ale. Wet hopped and freshly bottled, intriguing. pours an opaque amber colour with a very thin head (although perhaps my pouring technique is just too good) Not much on the nose, something sweet in there something funky too. Not sure if it’s an unpleasant aroma or just unusual. I think i’d lean towards the latter. definite bitterness from the hops but nothing outstanding a little bit of an anticlimax. A little too fizzy for my tastes. Interesting beer to have tried but ultimately if i was looking for a hoppy pale ale there are plenty of others i’d pick up first.

650mL bottle from LCBO. Dates on bottle say that the hops were picked the same day the beer was brewed. But the dates also say that it was bottled 1 day after I bought it.... so can they be trusted??? Pours cloudy and pale. Aroma is hoppy and fruity, some peaches in there. Taste is a mouthful of hops. No bitterness at first, but a lingering bitter aftertaste creeps up on you. Not bad for these guys.

Pour hazy golden yellow limited head. Aroma stinks was prepared to drain pour just a very unpleasant smell overall, corn, light cereal underneath. Taste cereal, hops, malty sweet, diacetyl, floral, kind of a mess. MF medium slick body fizzy carb. A mess not very good drinkable but would not rebuy.