6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Pours hazy copper with a fading head.Nose shows horseblanket, elderflower, peach and subtle malt. Not much wood showing.Not much acidity as a flavour either. There’s a peppery note along with some sweet malt and a soft oak note. More herbal characters too. Not particularly exciting.Needs more carbonation.
Tried
on 06 Jan 2014
at 18:37
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle, 12C. Dark red with an inch of pale beige head that hangs around well. Aroma of raisins, prunes, toffee, spice bread. Sweet, bready and quite rich with lots of dried fruit. No overt booze, which for me is a slight shame in this sort of thing. Dries out a tad quickly with wood, hard spices and quite firm bitterness at the end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2014
at 04:45
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Hazy amber with a white head that lasts quite well. Pleasant, intriguing but rather subdued aroma is peachy with some pine and tropical fruit, light biscuit, dope. Creamy texture. Sweet with peach, biscuit, mango. Bitterness is pretty high but struggles through. Pine and menthol creep up to dominate at the end. All very tenor register hops where a zesty top note might have made it sing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2013
at 06:09
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Golden amber, no head. 3 Aroma of the barn, lemon, apricot kernels, nectarines. Very low carbonation, slightly slippery. 3 Sweet caramel and stone fruit balanced by sour woody and earthy funk. Some Sichaun pepper and lots of stemmy/ woody notes in a dryish finish. Complex and interesting with the expected Orvalish and lambic notes, but not as vibrant as I’d hoped. More bubbles would have helped. But pretty good. [3.6]Last of these. An almost really good beer - blending in something young and zesty to this would have been quite something, but as is it’s deep but moody.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2013
at 04:22
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours black with a fading head.Nose shows liquorice, sarsparilla, soft sweet bready notes. Very strong sarsparilla.Flavours are more focused on the malt. Some roasty malt and toast notes with sarsparilla and aniseed behind. A herbal astringency is noticeable in the finish.Needs a thicker body, feels watery at the moment.
Tried
on 02 Dec 2013
at 01:38
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 2
Overall 7
Pours amber with a large lasting head.Aroma of honey, white wine, sweet malt, sultanas and some light fruity hops.Flavours include more honey and sweet malt with soft banana, sultana and fortified wine notes. Some booze later on along with a metallic note.Way too much carbonation.
Tried
on 30 Nov 2013
at 14:31
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, 12C. Amber with a loose beige head that never quite disappears. Aroma of caramel, toast, banana, apples, spices, hints of funk. Sweet with caramel, sherry and fruit, dries out a lot at the spicy but not very bitter finish. Just a vaguely rustic amber really, but there’s some intriguing complexity that comes through because of the nice balance.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2013
at 04:08
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pale hazy orange with a white head that’s soon less than a coat. Aroma is quite funky with lemon and apples as well as damp laundry. Tastes pretty much as it smells, with some herbal notes and a little salt at the end. Light-bodied, tart, refreshing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2013
at 03:33
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours gold with a fading head.Nose shows subtle doughy wheat, lemon, elderflower. Pretty basic.Similar flavours but more fruit oriented. Lemon, elderberry and a slight acidity later on.Very light body.Ok but not all that expressive.
Tried
on 21 Nov 2013
at 02:57
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Is there anything Red Duck can’t do? This one is even better than their Hoppy Amber, which I love. There is such a depth of character to this beer, with loads of flavours, including honey, watermelon, rockmelon, grapefruit, orange and coriander. It was a genuine shock to read that this is a 9% beer. Just a ripper.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Nov 2013
at 00:37