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Ruddles in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.20
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An English Ale with a distinctive flavour of dark toffee and caramel combined with a crisp bitterness derived from using rare Bramling Cross hops. Tropical and berry fruits from the mix of hops, in particular the rare Bramling Cross which adds black and redcurrants. Challenger in the boiling copper gives robust bitterness and this is balanced by the sweetness from the pale and crystal malts. (Bottle 4.7%)
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4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Clear dark golden ale with a soapy aroma and a sour crisp bitterness. Not the best taste.
Tried
on 23 Nov 2012
at 16:00
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
This tastes a little flat to me. Almost has metallic tinge to it (and it’s from a bottle). Color is copper with small beige head. Aroma is faint, taste is of watery bitter. I tried this many years ago, and it was one of my favorites. Sad to see ti go down hill under Greene King...
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Oct 2012
at 08:07
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle - a pretty looking beer, copper body, white head. Heavy hop nose, with a bitter tang to taste. Not bad, but ordinary.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2012
at 17:15
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
50cl bottle from ABCBeers. Decent white head. Clear amber/golden pour. Nice subtle bitterness
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2012
at 10:28
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
8th November 2009
Clear amber beer. Well balanced and fairly strong nose. Softish palate, quite dry. Fairly strong malt and a good balance of bittering hop. Not terrible but as with so many English bitters - the hops are al bitterness and no fruit.
Clear amber beer. Well balanced and fairly strong nose. Softish palate, quite dry. Fairly strong malt and a good balance of bittering hop. Not terrible but as with so many English bitters - the hops are al bitterness and no fruit.
Tried
on 02 Jun 2012
at 09:05
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
En klassiker fra studietiden! 0,5 flaske fra Meny. Nydelig mørk gylden farge. 4,7%. Deilig balanse og fruktig mersmak (er det litt nostalgi?). Boks fra supermercadoen i Elviria: et fantastisk cremeskum som varer helt til bunns, og en creamy, smooth munnfølelse med kompleks og subtil fruktig smak. Et mesterverk på bare 4,7 vitaminenheter. Opp fra 3.5 til 4.1!
Tried
on 20 May 2012
at 11:48
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5
When I was a tidler, I used to love this beer on draught, brewed in the tiny county of Rutland. "Get puddled on Ruddles" was my moto whenever I came across it. Times move on, now I am a big fish and the brewery I talk of has been flushed away. This beer is now made in Suffolk by the bad boys of English brewing, Greed King, not that the labelling would let you know that. This clear 500ml bottle was drank in May 2007. Poured into a pint sleeve glass a large slighty off white head sat on top of a clear terracotta orange body which had bubbles roaring up to join the head. Hops, toffee and caramel, a sweet aroma for an English bitter. The taste wasn’t so sweet, but as the beer warms it sweetens, some toffee remained from the aroma, the caramel tasted burnt and a dryness adds to the proper bitter flavours you would expect from such a style. A metalic tone appears after the fluid has left, which I didn’t like. Pity about the mouthfeel, it ruined the drink for me, I will not be having a bottle again, but will try a cask pint if I see one on my travels.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 May 2012
at 08:21
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
licorice, leaves, spruce, cereal, orange, cloudy, frothy, medium sweetness, very bitter, lightly sour, medium body, sticky, average carbonation, bitter, long finish,
Tried
on 26 Feb 2012
at 09:51
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Amber colour with a white head. Hoppy flowery and caramel nose. A very mild bitter flavour with a medium caramel and fruity note.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2011
at 04:59
6/10
Tried
on 27 Oct 2011
at 15:03