Dark Ale
White Rabbit Brewery in Geelong, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.34
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With the help of traditional open fermentation tanks we let our Dark Ale yeast play... and it likes to play hard. Yeast normally does its thing in closed tanks that tends constrains it work, but with open tanks (that are just like a big soup tin without the lid), the yeast is allowed to run wild.
Raisin like esters bind a balancing act of flavour with a malt bill that rewards the parched palate and delivers a rich, dark colour.
Passed through a hop back laden with whole hop flowers prior to a liberal dry hopping regime during open fermentation, this is a dark ale with a generous amount of reassuring bitterness.
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Idiosynkrasie (17851) reviewed Dark Ale from White Rabbit Brewery 4 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6
330ml bottle. Clear, mahogany colour with ruby shimmer and small to average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, off-white to beige head. Toasty, minimally nutty, dark malty and minimally caramel malty aroma, hints of toasted nuts, some caramel, dry cocoa, nougat, a touch of treacle, whiffs of cola. Taste is sweet-ish, caramel malty and slightly nutty, toasty dark malty, hints of nougat, toasted nuts, some caramel, a touch of treacle, cola, mildly bitter hoppy counterpart.
Dissolved sugar enriched, watery texture, minimally dry palate, medium, mildly prickly carbonation.
Fairly meaty, a tad heterogeneous, rather sweet - OK.
Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed Dark Ale from White Rabbit Brewery 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
330ml bottle pours out dark cola brown topped with a tan head. Nose is nice rich roast malts some light chocolate and a little metallic. Taste is more of the rich roast malts some chocolate and a little leather.
Mr_Pink_152 (17201) reviewed Dark Ale from White Rabbit Brewery 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft at Beer DeLuxe, Melbourne. Off black colour with a pale tan head. Aroma and taste are malty light coffee and slight bitter. Medium body.
eurosoba (18570) ticked Dark Ale from White Rabbit Brewery 3 years ago
Grumbo (24387) reviewed Dark Ale from White Rabbit Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
16/10/2022. Bottle from Cellarbrations. Pours mahogany brown with a small frothy beige head. Aroma is malty, light roasted, toasted, mild chocolate, citrus, ashy edge. Moderate sweetness and light bitterness. Moderate body, quite watery and fizzy. Starts okay but fades.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Dark Ale from White Rabbit Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottled. A brown beer with a lazing brown head. The aroma has notes of malt and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes malt and caramel, leading to a bitter finish.
TDA (6957) reviewed Dark Ale from White Rabbit Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
At a tasting, thanks Dudu, small stable creamy bubbly head, clear quite dark brown color, light aroma and flavor of dark bread and chocolate, light bitterness, hints of ash quite dry. Fair and drinkable.
DSG (25977) reviewed Dark Ale from White Rabbit Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle sample at a tasting at troubles' place. Thanks tomer. Deep amber-brown. Malt, caramel, toast, candy, a bit of fruitiness, sweetish, bitterish finish, medium-bodied.
jimgreen (21510) reviewed Dark Ale from White Rabbit Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle at the Doubletree Hotel, Melbourne. Poured a clear dark brown with a thin off white head. The aroma is caramel malt, nutty, light sweet fruit. The flavour is moderate sweet, light bitter with a crisp, fruity, woody hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.
rami-pl (12989) ticked Dark Ale from White Rabbit Brewery 9 years ago
Ostatni australijczyk z lodowki ;) i pechowy, bo niby jest karmel, jakies ciemne owoce, costam jeszcze... Slodkie... Ale calosciowo nijako