Trafalgar Korruptor

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

200ml bottle. Poured a orange-red lightly clouded ale in the snifter...small cap that goes fast, not much lace. Aromas of molasses, some dried fruit and musty yeast tones. Malting supplimented with a lot of demerara gives a slick mouthfeel and a boozy sharp "young" character. Starts sweet and vinous like a sturdy port then the alcohol is detected and it wipes out much of the fruit tones that were developing...finished rather harsh with licorice-salt tastes and a long after burn. It is too early to rate this ale it needs some cellar time to see more flavors develop and the sharp 2 dimentional flavor to mellow into something warming and more flavorful. I put a couple of bottles down and will review again in a year.