Trafalgar India Ink Black Pale Ale
Trafalgar Ales and Meads in Oakville, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Regular|
Score
6.25
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
650ml bottle. Looks good, dark ruby pour, fluffy white head. What is this?! A Trafalgar beer that clams to have hops, and i can actually smell some and it’s not making me think drainpour. There is some decent hoping here, some decent pine notes, and some decent roasted malt. This tastes pretty good too. Nice piney resinous finish with a good amount of roasted malts, and some nice coffee touches. Really this was pretty good!
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:34
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
A clear brown ale with a thin mocha head. In aroma, coffee, chocolate, tobacco, floral hops, surranated. In mouth, a bitter chocolate with resinous floral hops, surprisingly nice considering it’s 2years old. Bottle at OttBottleShare July 2014.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2014
at 12:19
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 22fl.oz.Clear medium to dark red brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, dusty, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus, orange - citrus. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120529]
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2012
at 01:33
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled. A dark brown beer with a lazing light tan head. The aroma has notes of hops, bread, malt, and citrus fruits. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, hops, and bread, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2012
at 12:19
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
22 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy orange with a small tan head. Aroma is peachy and grapefruity. Bitter, grapefruity and peachy. Smooth fruity, bitter and dry finish. Ends smooth fruity and bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2012
at 10:19
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
clear red amber, smooth offwhite head. hoppy and roasted malty aroma, a bit dull/flat, but clearly black ipa. flavor is malty, roasted malty, hoppy, flowery hoppy. again a bit dull/flat.
Tried
on 29 May 2012
at 08:45
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of JanLaursen. Pours a clear dark reddish brown with a creamy beige head. Sweet roasty nose with a subtle touch of citrusy hops. Medium body, soft mouthfeel, sweet roast - again very subtle hops. Subdued bitterness. 290512
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2012
at 08:31
5.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
From my dear parents who purchased this at an Ottawa LCBO: Pours a brown with barely any head. There is a very weak aroma of something vaguely familiar to roasted malts. Taste is bland. The balance or tight-rope that is a bIPA is violated here by basically nullifying the hops (I understand that this is a Black Pale Ale as opposed to a bIPA, but still). In effect, I think they are just trying to cash in on the Black IPA trend by selling us a mediocre Brown Ale with another name.
Tried
on 28 May 2012
at 18:56
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Smell has some hops and roast malts. Taste has more malt, almost burnt tasting with a little more hops. It’s not bad, especially for a Trafalgar, but not something I’m going to go running back to with a lot of enthusiasm either. The burnt malt taste overtakes the hops too much and leaves with some sort of limbo beer. 650 bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2012
at 17:15
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
A nice new bomber at the LCBO which caught my eye (and interest - funny coming from Trafalgar). Pours a real dark brown (a tad darker than cola) with a big frothy beige head that stays up well and created beautiful dirty lacing. Fresh hop nose with the roasted malt well-balanced in back. Medium-thin bodied. Again, the hop seems a bit dominant in the taste with the dark malt underneath. Nice grapefruit bitterness lingers in the aftertaste. Seems like after a while, coffee is at the tip of my tongue and butterscotch could be smelt. Quite a nice, easy-drinking, black IPA and very interesting coming from this brewery. One of their best so far.
Tried
on 15 Mar 2012
at 16:35