Rocking Rudolph
Hardys & Hansons in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
5.96
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A full bodied, malty and fruity premium Christmas Ale with a refreshing bitter finish.
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6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
50cl bottle. Pours clear dark amber colour with a mid-sized beige head. Aroma of red malt, red berries, nuts. Taste of mild bitter hops, red malt and berries, some nuts, okay!
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Feb 2016
at 14:36
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
How: Bottle.
Where: SimCorp Pub, Copenhagen.
Appearance: Amber colour with an off-white head.
Aroma: Caramel, malt, fruit.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Caramel, butter, hops, fruit, malt.
Where: SimCorp Pub, Copenhagen.
Appearance: Amber colour with an off-white head.
Aroma: Caramel, malt, fruit.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.
Flavour: Caramel, butter, hops, fruit, malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2016
at 03:39
8/10
Tried
on 03 Jan 2016
at 13:35
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Classic bitter appearance- copper, clear, with a small foamy head. Aroma of caramel, grassy hops, bready malt hints. Taste is more of the same- vague hop bitterness, then fruitiness towards the finish. Solid, unspectacular.
Tried
on 27 Dec 2015
at 03:34
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask pint at the Audley (a Taylor Walker pub) in Mayfair, London. Dark copper color, low creamy head. Malts and toffee in the aroma, hints of caramel. Malty flavour but not too sweet, also toffee and fruity notes (blackcurrants) and earthy hops, a hint of cinnamon. Very nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Dec 2015
at 13:51
3/10
Bland and boring.
Tried
on 20 Dec 2015
at 14:06
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Jan ’15. A 0.5 l bottle. It poured clear red body with a small, short living head. A bit metallic roasted caramel aroma. Lightly bitter, dry flavor, like a typical English macro bitter. Biscuit&caramel were more or less everything offered, lightly herbal, too. Medium bodied, but its simplicity gave away watery impression. Shorter finish. After some nice beers of the evening this was expectedly mediocre, even bad for a Christmas brew of any kind. Drinkable though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2015
at 13:14
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours clear dark reddish brown with medium white head. Aroma is intense malt, malt syrup, malt drops, biscuits, butter, butterscotch, grassy hops and faint hints of spruce. Taste of light to medium sweet, light bitter and faint acidic. Body is watery to light oily with soft carbonation. Finish is long and mostly sweet with lots of malty notes but also bread, biscuits, caramel, butterscotch, fudge, lemon, pale syrup and hints of ground coffee and cinnamon. Nice English ale with hints of Christmas.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2015
at 15:09
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from Tesco, pale Amber colour with a white head. Malty sweet aroma and taste. But a touch dull.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2015
at 14:41
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Brewmaster, Leicester Square, London. An amber/brown coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Malty, caramel, spice aroma. Tastes malty, caramel, spice.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Dec 2015
at 16:09