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Duchy Originals Organic Ale

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
3433.07/5.03.06/5.05%45.1English pint
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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 daboskabouter (1470), Fergus, Ontario, Canada
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/54/102/59/20
Jan 3, 2008  
Bright golden colour with a large, rocky, almond coloured head. A nice lace clings to the glass as emptied. The nose is fresh anxd vegetal with some fruit and grass mixed in there. There is a very light bitterness at the front followed by grass. It certainly is organic tasting, but there’s not much going on. One-sided and boring.


 BEERGUY007 (206), Scotia, New York, USA
0.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
1/101/51/101/51/20
Dec 23, 2007  
Well, it is bitter all right. I guess if I had to be fair, it is what it is, for wha it was trying to accomplish. Amber color, not a lot of head. smells of malts. It was ok, I won;t get it again, but it was ok.


 Wulfstan (509), California, USA
4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/104/59/104/520/20
Dec 21, 2007    Updated: Feb 5, 2008
This is a nice, solid, and very satisfying & refreshing English bitter/ESB. It is amber with a medium, dense light tan head that slowly dissipates to a ring and wispy top. The aroma is rich, toasty grain, toffee, flowery hops with a pine element, and toasted bread. The taste is a solid bitter/beer character, hard to pin down otherwise in the way I like bitter. It has elements of toffee, earth/leaves, both very light, in a body that is mostly toasty malty grain and piney hops, with a clean, crips, smooth bitterness taking over after a second, followed by a nice lightly toasted grain finish. It is crisp and clean, with great bittersweet balance, and a fruity hint. It’s a little less dry and bitter than Black Sheep Ale, but also a tad less clean and aromatic.


 thornecb (1755), Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/56/103/515/20
Nov 26, 2007  
Pours bright amber into an English pint. Head quickly subsides with no lacing to skim surface. Caramel aromas. Sweet cookie dough from front to back with a lasting bitter hop finish.


 PilsnerPeter (2612), Flushing, New York, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/103/510/20
Nov 12, 2007  
Bottle: Copper pour with a consistnt white head. Smells of old boiled vegetables, light sweet caramel back, and lots of metallic character. Somewhat thin in body, with a grassy flavor, along with old vegetables and an underlying sweet malt touch. The finish is full of metallic bitterness. Not that good.


 badlizard (2343), Berkeley, California, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Nov 8, 2007  
500 ml bottle from Bevmo. Hazy copper brown with a slight fizzy head. Caramel and barley aroma. Sweet slightly tangy bread taste with a mildly bitter finish.


Buddahchild (28), Littleton, Colorado, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/103/55/102/510/20
Oct 30, 2007  
Very strange nose, I sensed malts and hops but found aromas of grass, hay, wet leather. The taste was malty sweet, with hints of hay/grasses, and no finish.


 Defreni (999), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Oct 6, 2007  
Flaske. Lettere mørkerødlig, og meget domineret af malt. Ekstrem drikbar med en meget lille snert af bitterhed til sidst. Udemærket af en økologisk øl, med et håb om at der snart kommer mere af den skuffe.



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