Rhubarb
Ruddles in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular Out of Production|
Score
4.49
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An English Ale with a vanilla aroma that leads to a rich flavour which balances the refreshing sweetness of rhubarb with the lingering bitterness of the distinctive Bramling Cross hop
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BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Rhubarb from Ruddles 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Feb 2008: This one of the ’Serious Country Ales’ themed beers from Greene King (owners of Ruddles name). I once had a Gurkin flavoured beer which had a green hue to it and actually tasted of girkins, it was horrible. I am reviewing this as I drink it and I don’t really want to taste nothing but rhubarb, so here goes. Clear 500ml bottle, no best before date visible on the bottle. Poured into my Bateman’s straight pint glass. Deep amber colour with a thin white head, looks OK but is no world beater in the appearance stakes. The aroma is more towards custurd than rhubarb, there is however some rhubarb crumble smells too. The taste is all rhubarb and sour rhubarb at that. The label doesn’t lie, apart from the bit about rhubarb having a sweetness. If it does have a sweetness i think they have boiled it out. No way of telling Bramling Cross Hops have been used unless you read the neck label. Different to anything I’ve ever had before and not all bad. I am not a huge rhubarb fan at the best of times but I’ve almost enjoyed this beer. Will I have another? Most likely not. I have had to start eating chesses to help me finish the bottle and hide the taste.
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Rhubarb from Ruddles 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 5.5
8th January 2008
Amber gold beer. Crisp palate. Pronounced Rhubarb that leads to a bone dry hoppy and rhubarb finish that lingers and lingers. Unusual but the palate makes it hard work.
Saintmatty (11304) reviewed Rhubarb from Ruddles 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
500ml Bottle - Amber in colkour. Vanilla and rhubabe in the aroma. Sweet rhubarb taste with some vanilla notes and light malt. Has the potential to be good but this is rather sickly.
SimonF (3322) reviewed Rhubarb from Ruddles 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Clear amber with plenty of off white head. Distinctive aroma, predominantly vanilla. medium body with plenty of carbonation. Flavour predominantly rhubarb and vanilla with slightly bitter fiinish. Interesting beer and very drinkable, altough the confectionary taste was rather unusual.
berkshirejohn (10223) reviewed Rhubarb from Ruddles 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5
500ml bottle from Tescos. Well, I saw this on the shelf and thought "Surely, it can’t be that bad", and then I read the other ratings. It’s hard to be objective in these circumstances, but here goes...It’s amber with an off-white head; it smells of rhubarb, but in a rather artificial way, and reminds me of rotting vegetation, rather than fresh, ready to cut, rhubarb. Taste is truly revolting, sour rather than sharp; metallic - undrinkable in my opinion - there aren’t many beers I have not finished, but this is certainly one of them. A drain pour.
Fin (18365) reviewed Rhubarb from Ruddles 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5
Bottle from Tesco Aylesbury 06-06-07. I know that Harrisoni warned us all to avoid this beer like the plague but for some reason I just had to try it. The aroma was just as Ian described it felt like I was in the corner sweet shop stocking up on my midget gems , cough candy twists and rhubarb and custards this smelt so like the latter it was quite eerie. The taste was more of the same, I actually quite like rhubarb and custards sweets but if you can imagine them liquified down and added to beer well that should be a criminal offence it really tasted like they’d steeped a quarter of rhubarb and custards in a pint of what may have started out as a perfectly good beer for a day or two and then unleashed this godawful monstrosity of a beer on an inquisitive public, I cannot belive that this beer had anything other than artificial flavourings added, a truly awful gimicky beer that done the unbelievable and that is made the Cobra Bite with Blood Orange I’d had the night before seem a stunner in comparison.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Rhubarb from Ruddles 18 years ago
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5
500ml bottle from Tesco. Pale chestnut with lasting cream head. Aroma of rhubarb and custard boiled sweets. Even from the aroma, i know that i am going to hate this. And it’s terrible!!!!!! Truly truly disgusting, one of the worst beers in the world. It is almost so terrible that there are not the words. No hop no malt and the only flavour is a chalky rhubarb and custard boiled sweetness that makes me retch. I had to poor it away.
Beese (811) reviewed Rhubarb from Ruddles 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 0.5
Pours amber with a small amount of white head. The smell is dintictly sweet, in a rather synthetic way, somewhat reminisant of toffee. Initial taste is highly saccharine with a nasty tart after-taste. Absolutely one of the worst beers I’ve ever tasted, totally undrinkable.