Trafalgar Maple Bock

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

Is this the sickest tasting maple beer or what? This is gross. A dark amber pour with a quickly disappearing head. Maple dominates both the aroma and flavour, which if this was ice cream or pancakes would be a good thing, but not for beer.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

650ml bottle
6.5% ABV
Milton LCBO Outlet #1 (Milton, Ontario, Canada)
April 5, 2011
The beer poured a translucent ruby red with a 1" tan coloured bubbly head. The aroma is maple first, sweet malt and floral hops second. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. The flavour is sweet maple, sweet malt and nothing else. A good idea, but not much substance to support it.

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 2 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

Bottle: Poured a deep burgundy color bock with a small foamy head with minimal retention and no lacing. Aroma is intensely sweet with an overabundance of primary sugar. Taste is cloying with way too much sweetness – totally gross and a drain pour. I can’t really understand what they try to do here but this is definitely the worst maple beer I had and I had some pretty bad one previously.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Found this one in a LCBO in Toronto... came in a bomber. Pours a darker brown that is clean, with no sediments at the bottom. The head is medium, slightly creamy, mildly tanned and leaves a bit of lace. The nose is on the plumb side, with some dark malts undertones. Very smooth mouthfeel with a little stick at the end. The taste is pretty well-balanced. Not too sweet, I am surprised. They must of changed their recipe, or had good aging. The maple is hard to even detect. No bitterness, but slight hop taste appears in the aftertaste. The burnt malt and the sweetness equalizes everything. Decent maple bock.

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

Im undecidied about this dark lager. Pours a very dark brown with very little lacing. Flavour is fairly sweet but ends on a somewhat bitter note. Mouthfeel is also fairly heavy.

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

650ml bottle fresh from the brewery Poured a dark brown lager into the glass...pathetic cap vanishes almost immediately to a light ring. No lacing capability Aroma is more promising...toasted grains, figs a whiff of sweet maple and then this ungodly musty smell like working yeast. Flavor has some nice toasty grain in it but is absolutely inundated with cloying sweetness...no detectable hops, slick mouthfeel and a sugary finish with some light char. Far too sweet...like one of their meads excpt maple flavored...too sweet to drink I poured the remainder down the sink. I think I’ve about had it with this brewer they just don’t seem to have any brewing savvy at all...the seasonals are either pedestrian efforts, relabeled standards, or laced with demerara and alcohol..the standard fair and all their offerings have a uniform bad yeastyness to them that just upsets my stomach and I’ve got a pretty strong stomach. Stick a fork in 'em I'm done with them tiill thay make some big changes.