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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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 RichJ7 (1175), Cullman, Alabama, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Apr 30, 2008  
Lightly cloudy orange-amber with a thin white head.Toasted malt nose with a touch of fruit. Soft, subtle malt flavor with a tangy hop thing going on. Not bad.


 porterhouse (1156), Alna, Maine, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
May 3, 2007  
(500 ml bottle) So-so flavor, pretty nice mouthfeel...Pours clear medium-dark copper with four fingers of frothy biscuit head. Aroma is kind of a confusion of malt sweetness, sour, perfumy hops, bread. Mouthfeel quite smooth, feels pretty full for a bitter, but a little fizzy in finish. Flavor is kind of a mirror of the aroma only a little weaker. Light sourness also present in taste, maybe a little metallic as well. Has some bitterness but it is low-key for this style. This is about as good as our local Gritty’s Best Bitter. Pass.


 Cartoonkhaki (1150), Brantford, Ontario, Canada
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/514/20
Apr 12, 2007  
Clean amber, orange. Little off white head. Malty sweet aroma, with like floaral hop aroma. Flavour is sweet and malty caramelish. Had a dry finish with light hop bitters.


 Dalle (1146), Skørping, Denmark
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/102/510/20
Feb 10, 2005  
Bottle. Unclear amber with a small head. Sweet, lightly grassy, low to medium bitterness. Low-medium body.


 mephisto (1144), Taiwan
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/104/511/20
Dec 1, 2005  
a straight forward solid bitter. malty, clean and medium rich. off white head that quickly disappears. amber colored w/ mild aroma of hay.


 Garrat (1132), Suffolk, England
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/511/20
Jan 19, 2005  
From a Bottle.Light orange in colour,small head,orchard aroma,quite bitter and dry,some fruit flavours.


 ALLOVATE (1126), Perth, Australia
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Nov 15, 2005  
Decent summer quaffer tasted at my usual haunt, the ’Moon & Sixpence’, Perth. Poured a brilliant, deep orangey bronze with a quickly diminishing, soapy white head that left some legs. Flowery, fruity nose; fresh and fragrant herbs and a strong waft of oranges, very clean and lightly spicy. Tangy, zesty citric fruits in the mouth with a balance of toasted malts mid-palate. Strong mix of apricots, peaches and orange marmalade flavours kept the refreshing mix interesting. Medium bodied and quite sprightly in carbonation. Finish is similarly fruity and malty with a light peppery note, and a metallic zing that may have just been the sample. It otherwise remained fresh and clean. This was easy to drink; quite simple, but it did the job it needed to do, and for that I can’t say anything bad about it. Decent!!! (50cL, 02/08/06)


 ehhdayton (1113), USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/512/20
Dec 11, 2006  
Pours amber with a white head. The aroma is light with malt and some hops. The flavor is mild with a slight maltiness and a light hoppish finish.



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