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Duchy Originals Organic Ale 3.06 344

Duchy Originals Organic Ale

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
3443.07/5.03.06/5.05%45.7English 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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 HogTownHarry (4020), Toronto (Harbourfront), Ontario, Canada
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Feb 9, 2007  
Bottle (500ml). Shared with mds and tupalev, tupalev’s bottle. Hazy orange, smallish bubbly-frothy head. Soft, earthy bready yeast aroma, sweet but light. Very grainy and soft taste, odd hint of orange zest in it, sweet aftertaste. Light yet full body, wheaty and mildly malty, not much carbonation - a little sweet for an ESB, but pleasant.


 Radek Kliber (3962), Toronto (Can) Krotoszyn (Pol), Ontario, Canada
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/511/20
May 9, 2007  
Bottle 500 ml (LCBO)
Amber in colour with golden hints, good well sited crown on top.
Good, clean fresh hoppy nose well supported by malty character below. Aroma set up simplistic but in this case worked well. (6.75/10)
Medium bodied ale with clear yet short burst of green bitters, woody with acidic oak notes. Tangy finish with soapy hop blend. This ale has some character but missing true soul of greatness.


 jerc (3945), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
May 16, 2007  
Bottle from England via Tupalev. Amber body with a good sized fluffy white head. Lightly earth malt and hops in the aroma is very "English", light green note to the hops. Sweet bready malt is ever so slightly toasty up front, and hops are subtle at first, but once you pick up on the subtle orange of the hops it is ever present, dancing along with light caramel malty flavours. Average, not quite medium palate suits the beer. Very nice. A touch more hops would suit my palate better, but this is a very nice beer that I could see drinking many pints of in a London pub.


 thedm (3836), Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/56/104/512/20
Aug 4, 2006  
This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a small sized head of foamy fine to medium sized off-white colored bubbles that was mostly lasting and left behind a transparent typically carbonated light orange brown colored body and a fair lacing. The aroma was musty and dirty smelling. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and strongly tingly at the finish. The flavor contained notes of malt mild hops sweet and crisp. An OK brew just nothing special.


 Braudog (3770), Dayton, Ohio, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/512/20
Feb 15, 2007  
I had no idea this was a Wychwood beer until I read the fine print. Wow. Anyway, mine’s labeled "English Ale", but I’m pretty sure this is the same beer. Mine poured a ruddy, rusty orage with a wet, bumpy head. The aroma is very airy, but bittersweet, almost sour, musty, and honey-like. The same impression carries to the flavors ... slightly sour, almost citrusy, but like a blood orange, rindy, and while short of puckery, a bit tart. (#2707, 2/15/2007)


 Theis (3763), Denmark
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/513/20
Apr 8, 2009  
Bottle at home - Easter Party. Clear amber - white head. Berries, caramel, light wood, grass, pine, light pleasant hoppy, citrus, fruity, honey sweetness. OK.


 Rciesla (3750), Exit 15W, New Jersey, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/56/103/512/20
Jul 8, 2008  
Bottle. Pours an amber body with a light head. Nice barley sweetness and malty but somehow you can tell its organic. A little bit of citrus orange, some light hoppiness.


 joss (3680), Garching b. München, Germany
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/512/20
Feb 26, 2005  
Bottle A bit english dustyness. Orange amber, creamy head. Malt and grain, peaches, Pleasant.



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