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Duchy Originals Organic Ale

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bottled
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
3453.07/5.03.06/5.05%46.5English 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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 TheBeerOrg (1589), Kentucky, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/513/20
Apr 29, 2006  
Pours dark reddish amber with a fully receding off-white head. Aroma is light bready and malty, toffee, and caramel. Taste has mild grassy hoppiness with light caramel, tofeee, and an ending note of herbal bitterness. Mouthfeel is light to medium bodied with light lively carbonation.


 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)


 Cletus (5059), Connecticut, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Apr 1, 2007  
Pours copper with a thin ring of white bubbles. Smells of citrus, earthy tea and pepper. Tastes of oranges and aspirin with a tangy finish.


 GarethYoung (1110), Glasgow, Scotland
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/514/20
May 23, 2005  
[bottle from sainsburys] The aroma has some grassy hoppy notes and some fruity malt notes underneath. body is a little thin, finish is bitter.


 Magjayran (1379), Durham, North Carolina, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/513/20
Aug 9, 2006  
Pours a yellow orange color with a fairly thick white head and absolutely fantastic lacing. Not much to the aroma. A bit of bittering hops on top of a fairly malty english ale. The American in me wants more hops, more alcohol, more malt, more more more but it’s a solid easy drinking beer as it is.


 HogTownHarry (4025), 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.


 dkoonce (899), People’s Republic of Athens, Ohio, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/105/56/103/514/20
Jun 5, 2009  
Bottle. Beautiful copper, clear, with a massive head that laces well. This is what a beer should look like. Peaty-malt aroma, with very little hop notes. Heavy, but dry, with a bit of a sour finish.


 joss (3687), 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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