County
(has 2 batches)
Ruddles in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England 🏴
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular|
Score
6.20
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Originally from England's smallest county – Rutland – Ruddles County is an English ale with a distinctive flavour of dark toffee and caramel combined with a crisp bitterness derived from using rare Bramling Cross hops.
Available as: Cask-conditioned, bottled and canned.
Available as: Cask-conditioned, bottled and canned.
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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
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Small coarseish offwhite head. Clear deep brownish body. Dusty caramelly nutty aroma with syrupy wooden notes. Dry-sweet dusty wooden caramelly taste with nutty earthy notes. Mild, smooth mouthfeel. Mid-bodied. Dry-sweet, almost bitter, dusty caramelly wooden aftertaste with oily strawy toffee notes. Lovely! Drinkable, harmonic, and subtle. (0.5l cask at Bishops Arms, Copenhagen.)
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Nov 2011
at 06:16
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask. Clear amber with a small off-white head leaving laces. Nutty aroma. Medium body, nuts, candy sugar and a fairly decent hopping in the finish. 261011
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Nov 2011
at 10:53
6/10
Tried
on 27 Oct 2011
at 15:03
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
En av mina favoriter av engelska ales. Doft: knäck och blommor Smak: Blommig och fruktig, besk marmelad, karamell, mineraler, ganska stram och besk för stilen. Jag minns den som lite smakrikare och fruktigare, men fortfarande riktigt god.
Tried
on 03 Oct 2011
at 11:09
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
0.5l bottle. This one pours a clear dark amber body with a small slowly fading off-white head. Aroma is quite subtle. Hints of caramel, some bitter hops and perhaps even a little fruity. Average carbonation, medium to light-bodied and it has a mild oily mouthfeel. Flavors are quite bitter with some burned caramel, toffee and it has a long lasting grassy-bitter aftertaste. Mnaah, drinkable but easily forgettable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2011
at 00:40
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Well the clear glass worries me a bit. Pours a fairly clear deep amber color with a stingy white head that dissipates quickly to a ring. The initial aroma coming out of the first pour were skunky, luckily as the glass sat it subsided. Smells of butterscotch, caramel and toffee very sweet smelling with a little earthy mineral bitterness. Taste follows the smell fairly well, but the skunk came back. Sweet and malty with an earthy mineral edge. Moderate carbonation, medium body with a sweet bubbly mineral water mouthfeel. The mercaptan killed this one for me. Not a bad brew, but probably not something I would seek out again.
Tried
on 20 Jul 2011
at 16:05
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Wharf, Aalborg. Brown colour with an off-white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, apple. Flavour is fruit, malt, apple, caramel. OK beer.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Jul 2011
at 00:41