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Duchy Originals Organic Ale

Duchy Originals Organic Ale - Premium Bitter/ESB

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 Percentile 
52
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Brewed by Wychwood (Refresh UK - Marstons plc)
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB

Witney, England

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
3413.06/5.03.06/5.05%44.8English pint
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Commercial Description:
Only available bottled (not bottle conditioned).
This was the first beer brewed for the Duchy Originals organic range. The beer is brewed using a rare breed of organic barley - Plumage Archer - harvested from The Prince’s Home Farm at Highgrove.
Duchy Originals Organic Ale has opted for a traditional, British barley variety Plumage Archer to give the beer a rich depth of flavour.
The organic hops for this delicious beer are also British, First Gold, a new dwarf hop variety grown in Kent and Worcestershire. The beer is brewed to Duchy Originals' recipe.
The Duchy Originals Organic Ale is a ruby-coloured flavour-packed beer which combines the rich caramel flavours of the barley malt with the signature ripe orange nuance of the First Gold hop.
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 DuffMan (2719), the land of bitumen, beef & beer, Alberta, Canada
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/513/20
Nov 4, 2009  
Bottle. Pours a hazy orange amber with an average off-white head. aroma of cooked peaches, caramel, and a hint of citrus. Caramel and tangerine are the dominant flavours, some nettley hops in the finish. Medium bitterness. Just okay for me.


 terrybail (330), London, Ontario, Canada
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/57/103/513/20
Oct 31, 2009  
500ml bottle from the LCBO Pours a cxloudy oraongy copper witha small beige head some lacing on the way down the aroma is sweet carmal and hops The taste is light and refershing slight bitter hop finish


 jgb9348 (2492), Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/102/511/20
Oct 24, 2009  
Clear amber-tinted copper coloured body with a thin (one centimetre) slightly off-white head. Decent looking, nothing special though. Aroma of fruit, raisins, pit fruits, caramel, malt and a touch of hops. Medium-bodied; Malty flavour up front with an odd cereal taste in the middle along with a nutty finish. Aftertaste shows caramel, pit fruits and an overwhelmingly bitter malt taste - no hops at all. Overall, a decent beer - not amazing by any means, but not horrible either. I sampled this 500 mL bottle purchased from the LCBO (Summerhill) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on 11-October-2009, sampled at home on the Eastern Shore of Virginia on 24-October-2009.


 garthicus (1215), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/510/20
Oct 23, 2009  
Appearance: Cloudy brown/orange with no head. Aroma: some nutmeg, caramel, malt, vinyl and grass. Flavour: mild malt, wet cardboard and grass.


 beersearcher (203), Glendale, California, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/515/20
Oct 23, 2009  
This is a solid session beer. There is a malt backbone and slight sweetness that make this a step above the standard English Ale. There is even a little bit of hop taste that fights through.


 Vertical Bacon Strips (874), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/513/20
Oct 12, 2009  
Nice clear orangy amber brew, average white cap, pretty fine lacing. Nice solid sweet but excellend bready quality, slight cola, weak toffee, milk?? Top end spice, tarty sourness, quiet caramel, mild, drinkable. Medium light bodied, ok bitter finish, slight fruit aftertaste.


 jimmay (179), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/517/20
Oct 11, 2009  
500 ml bottle from LCBO. Pours copper, with slight orange tint. Aroma is sweet, with hints of berry and apricot. Taste is sweet, with hoppy, bitter finish. Carbonation is fine, and lively. Head is caramel, leaving fine lacing.


 hotstuff (3175), Indiana, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Oct 3, 2009  
Bottle. Small off-white fizzy frothy head with good retention, semi-cloudy, semi-hazy body, fair amount of lacing, and an orange hue with a golden tint. The aroma was malt, barley, sweet and fruity. Ditto for the flavor with some caramel and lightly bitter as well. The mouthfeel was tingly and this is a light-medium bodied beer. An easy beer to drink, but organic does not cut it when it comes to beer.



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