Ra #4 Dark Egyptian Bread Beer
Red Duck
- From:
- Red Duck
- Australia
- Style:
- Gruit / Ancient Herbed Ale
- ABV:
- 8.4%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.72 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 10, 2016
- Added:
- Feb 10, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by mynie from Maryland
3.72/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.72/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Adding this as a Scottish Gruit because that's what someone else did for another one of Red Duck's Ra beers. I have no idea what this was based on or what style it seeks to emulate.
This was a bizarre toss in, which I bet was initially a toss in from another trade. It sat in my fridge for at least 3 months, as I'm hesitant to try beers based on ancient recipes. They might end up like Sprecher's stomach churning Mbege Ale, or else just okay but too weird to really enjoy like most of Dogfish Head's experimental brews.
This pours super dark and very fizzy but also kinda translucent in parts. It's got the same weird, shifty color of a not well made home brew.
Smells aggressively, nicely sour. This is either brewed to the tastes of contemporary beer geeks or the ancient Egyptians were super prescient about what a small, monied set of drunkards would like in the early 21st century. My guess is the former. And thank god for that.
It's not really bready. The malt is there, I'm sure, but I can't pick it up over all the sour nodes. The sour is super tart but doesn't ever get undrinkable, so while it's fun and enjoyable it's also kind of one-note.
Feb 10, 2016This was a bizarre toss in, which I bet was initially a toss in from another trade. It sat in my fridge for at least 3 months, as I'm hesitant to try beers based on ancient recipes. They might end up like Sprecher's stomach churning Mbege Ale, or else just okay but too weird to really enjoy like most of Dogfish Head's experimental brews.
This pours super dark and very fizzy but also kinda translucent in parts. It's got the same weird, shifty color of a not well made home brew.
Smells aggressively, nicely sour. This is either brewed to the tastes of contemporary beer geeks or the ancient Egyptians were super prescient about what a small, monied set of drunkards would like in the early 21st century. My guess is the former. And thank god for that.
It's not really bready. The malt is there, I'm sure, but I can't pick it up over all the sour nodes. The sour is super tart but doesn't ever get undrinkable, so while it's fun and enjoyable it's also kind of one-note.
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