Red Duck Forsaken
Red Duck
- From:
- Red Duck
- Australia
- Style:
- Belgian Saison
- ABV:
- 6.1%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.67 | pDev: 2.45%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 04, 2014
- Added:
- Jun 17, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by laituegonflable from Australia
3.59/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Pours a dark red colour, very cloudy with creamy tan head, looks beautiful with some lovely lacing left behind. Gorgeous.
Smells saisony. Slight toffee edge from the darker malts used presumably, but otherwise just a bit of horse blanket and barnyard, slightly phenolic on the back with a touch of coriander seed. Par for the course, really.
Taste is fairly dark, roasty even. Slight horsey note mid-to-late but not a lot of funk. In fact not a lot of saison characters in general here, maybe the chocolatey or crystal malts that they're using to get the darker colour are just too robust for the yeast strain used.
Full body, really quite a decent texture. Almost bitty at times.
Nice, just not very saisony. I'd be more inclined to call it a pleasant dark Belgian ale.
Jul 04, 2014Smells saisony. Slight toffee edge from the darker malts used presumably, but otherwise just a bit of horse blanket and barnyard, slightly phenolic on the back with a touch of coriander seed. Par for the course, really.
Taste is fairly dark, roasty even. Slight horsey note mid-to-late but not a lot of funk. In fact not a lot of saison characters in general here, maybe the chocolatey or crystal malts that they're using to get the darker colour are just too robust for the yeast strain used.
Full body, really quite a decent texture. Almost bitty at times.
Nice, just not very saisony. I'd be more inclined to call it a pleasant dark Belgian ale.
Reviewed by lacqueredmouse from Australia
3.76/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.76/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Even Red Duck can't decide what this is. The call it a Red Saison / Japanese Brown Ale, made with dark malts, red, black and white rice, oats, wattleseed and Nori seaweed and fermented with a sake yeast. Yeah, this sounds like one of Scott's ideas. Tried on-tap at GABS 2014 in Melbourne.
Pours a deep, turbid brown with very solid hazing. Body has a bit of heft and weight behind it, and holds fine carbonation when tilted. Head is beige in colour, and leaves bits of broken ringing lace as it goes down. Looks good overall.
Nose is initially toasty, with a bit of cherry coming through and a nutty quality that seems to get mixed up in the funk. As it warms, sharper characters of anise and ink come through as well. It's certainly unusual.
Light toasty entry on the palate, with a smooth middle section that releases some rounded Belgian tones and a little grassy funk, possibly from the rice and sake yeast. Back is very light with a bit of buttery smoothness that turns into a light nutty character in the aftertaste. Feel is smooth but with a generous amount of carbonation.
Overall, this is a good beer. It's not necessarily outside the general oeuvre of Red Duck, but that's a pretty broad space to work in.
Jun 17, 2014Pours a deep, turbid brown with very solid hazing. Body has a bit of heft and weight behind it, and holds fine carbonation when tilted. Head is beige in colour, and leaves bits of broken ringing lace as it goes down. Looks good overall.
Nose is initially toasty, with a bit of cherry coming through and a nutty quality that seems to get mixed up in the funk. As it warms, sharper characters of anise and ink come through as well. It's certainly unusual.
Light toasty entry on the palate, with a smooth middle section that releases some rounded Belgian tones and a little grassy funk, possibly from the rice and sake yeast. Back is very light with a bit of buttery smoothness that turns into a light nutty character in the aftertaste. Feel is smooth but with a generous amount of carbonation.
Overall, this is a good beer. It's not necessarily outside the general oeuvre of Red Duck, but that's a pretty broad space to work in.
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