Chateau Jiahu
(has 4 batches)
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery in Milton, Delaware, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.80
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Let's travel back in time again for another Dogfish Head Ancient Ale (Midas Touch was our first foray and Theobroma our most recent). Our destination is 9,000 years ago, in Northern China! Preserved pottery jars found in the Neolithic villiage of Jiahu, in Henan province, have revealed that a mixed fermented beverage of rice, honey and fruit was being produced that long ago, right around the same time that barley beer and grape wine were beginning to be made in the Middle East!
Fast forward to 2005. Molecular archaeologist Dr. Patrick McGovern of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology calls on Dogfish Head to re-create another ancient beverage, and Chateau Jiahu is born.
In keeping with historic evidence, Dogfish brewers use orange blossom honey, muscat grape juice, barley malt and hawthorn fruit. The wort is fermented for about a month with sake yeast until the beer is ready for packaging.
Fast forward to 2005. Molecular archaeologist Dr. Patrick McGovern of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology calls on Dogfish Head to re-create another ancient beverage, and Chateau Jiahu is born.
In keeping with historic evidence, Dogfish brewers use orange blossom honey, muscat grape juice, barley malt and hawthorn fruit. The wort is fermented for about a month with sake yeast until the beer is ready for packaging.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Tap. Pours clear orange, medium creamy off white head, super slow to dissipate, great lacing. Aroma is honey, field grass, white grape, toffee. Flavor is medium sweet, light bitter, earthy, herbal, honey, Bready, Belgian spice, clove. Medium body, pretty hot.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Dec 2015
at 13:34
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught @ Dogfish Head Brewing & Eats, Rehoboth Beach, DE
Pours hazy deep golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, dried fruits, alcohol, grapes and vinous. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long vinous, fruity and slightly warm finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours hazy deep golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, dried fruits, alcohol, grapes and vinous. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long vinous, fruity and slightly warm finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2015
at 00:07
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at the brewpub. Almost completely clear, light amber in color and with a minimal sized head. Sweet, fruity aroma with some herbs, honey and malts. Alcohol too. It’s dry and full bodied, warming and nicely carbonated, with flavors of honey, sweet fruits, plums, some herbs and a nice bitterness. Lasting finish. A bit too warming this one, else it’s both tasteful and interesting. 150621
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Jun 2015
at 19:22
6.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
750 mL bottle with some age on it. Pours a hazy orange color with a thin fizzy white head. Aroma of honey, dark fruits, grapes, mild earthy and floral notes. The taste is grape, honey, candied citrus, rice, caramel, lingering tartness. Medium bodied, low carbonation, no heat. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2014
at 17:30
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at Hop Leaf, Chicago. Pours hazy golden with an off white head. Aroma of honey, sweet fruits and a light herbal quality. Flavour is heavy sweet and moderate bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Oct 2013
at 08:29
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
If archaeology and beer always came together like this it would be a good thing. Resurrecting lost ideas rather than dead brews. Then again, there’s a reason why some things fell out of favor. Pours dark brown with great lacing and head. Some cool things happening here with these hawthorn fruits, whatever they are. Very bitter taste with some smokiness in malt. Average carbonation, thick texture. On tap at Tap42.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Jun 2013
at 08:14