Dark Ale
White Rabbit Brewery in Geelong, Victoria, Australia 🇦🇺
Strong Ale Regular|
Score
6.34
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An intriguing dark ale that moves to its own beat, our minds set about creating a beer that contradicted itself. Rich, dark and flavoursome but at the same time ever refreshing. Malt driven but with the aromatic lift of generous doses of hops.
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.
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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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From 330ml bottle on 14/6/2010.The aroma is spicy, with some fruity hops. Not similar to any brown brown ale I’ve tried to date, it almost has a dash of APA to it, with dark fruit and a distinct hoppy spiciness dominating the malt. A nice effort.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jun 2010
at 21:28
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours dark copper with ruby highlights and a large lasting head.Nose shows green, spicy, grapefruit hops with nutty darker malts and hints of chocolate in the background. Neither hops nor malt leap out of the glass, quite a good balance.First up upon tasting the malt seems to lead the way, with more nutty and lightly roasted notes. The hops mainly show up as a green, spicy finish of mild bitterness.Carbonation is too high, creating very dry finish.
Tried
on 04 Apr 2010
at 19:07
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Clear slightly reddish brown, no head. Sweet fruity malty aroma, maybe hint of raisins. Medium body and carbonation. Tangy / fruity with rich malt and hint of chocolate. A little bit of pleasant bitterness in the finish. A very well balanced good dark beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2010
at 04:32
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark amber "malt driven" brew with caramel, toffee, chocolate and dark fruit. Decent depth, but felt it would have been better unpasteurized. Just came across as a stepping stone beer, which isn’t a bad thing if that is what they are aiming for, but not going to over impress me.
Tried
on 02 Jan 2010
at 15:28
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Lovely-looking beer - colour of leatherwood honey, dense, creamy beige head. Good lacing. There’s honeyed malt on the nose too as well as citrus, flowers and spice. Taste is mild coffee malt, some earthiness and nuts. Gentle but lingering bitterness at the finish. I was underwhelmed the first time I tried it, but no, this is subtle and good. There’s no hint of open ferment wild funkiness though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Nov 2009
at 03:24