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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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 FatPhil (3484), Espoo, Finland
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/103/515/20
Jul 17, 2008  
500ml bottle (Sainsbury’s)
Rich orange. Soft sweet aroma. Reasonable carbonation. Some early fruity hops, solid malty body, and late biting hoppiness. Well balanced, overall solid bitter. Oozes quality.


 CapFlu (3483), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/103/511/20
Aug 7, 2008  
Purchased at the Spinnakers Spirit Merchant in Vic West. Pours a headless light copper body. Nose of caramel malt and golding hops. Very mild flavour, the hops kick it up a bit but all in all its fairly plain like most of the organic beers I’ve encountered. Somewhat thin texture with a tart hop finish. Average


 Fin (3449), Merton, Oxfordshire, England
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/514/20
Sep 11, 2006    Updated: Apr 2, 2007
Bottle, drank at a friends but this is easily available in Sainsburys and other well known supermarket retailers. Copper coloured with a fruity and malty aroma, some caramel and nuttiness in the taste, bitterness is there but more subdued than some of the other Wychwood beers, overvall a nice beer.


 blankboy (3214), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
May 5, 2007  
Bottle courtesy of tupalev. It’s funny, tupalev’s friend brings him bottles of this from England (which tupalev was kind of enough to share with us) and then a few weeks later it hits the shelves of the LCBO. Pours a clear orange-copper with an average size somewhat-lasting beige head. Aroma’s a little sweet with fruit, caramel malt, grain, bread and earthy hops. Flavour’s malty and grainy upfront followed by bread, fruit and grassy hops -- like a sweet mild Bitter. Light to medium bodied. I’d like it a little less sweet and a tad hoppier but this is still pretty good and easy to drink.


 Eyedrinkale (3209), Astoria, New York, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/54/103/59/20
May 25, 2008  
Bottle. Brownish red color. How do I hate most English beers? Let me count the ways. 1. The hops always taste dusty. 2. Crappy head retention. 3. Aroma is like it was left in the dumpster for a few warm days. 4. Aftertaste makes me want to brush my teeth. Anyway, the decent thing about this beer is the decent sweetness of the malt.


 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.


 TheBeerGod (3164), Newport News, Virginia, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Dec 11, 2005  
Bottle. Pours a hazed copper with a small white head. Nose is malty and sweet with light hoppiness, bit of melon, iced tea, light caramel, and dried fruit notes. Taste is also very malty with big caramel and melon notes. Light earthy hops, sweet tea, bit of lemon, light cake sweetness, and light honey. Body is medium with an above average carbonation feel. finishes with honey glazed cake, light iced tea, earthy hops, light flowery notes, bit of lemon and caramel. Very "delicate" beer. The flavors and aroma seem as if they can get easily out of whack with improper storage problems. Thankfully, this turned out wonderful.


 RichardGretton (3154), Leicestershire, England
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/514/20
Sep 4, 2003  
Dark ale with a dryly hopped and very bitter aroma. A very bitter and hopped flavour. A very bitter and dry drink but nice.



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