Dark Ruby
Sarah Hughes Brewery in Dudley, West Midlands, England 🏴
Mild - Dark Regular|
Score
6.98
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jjsint (8631) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 11 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Cask @ Engineers Arms, Henlow. Light reddish brown with a bit of white head. Aroma of candy sugar, lingonberries, slight tinge of balsamic vinegar. Taste is a sweet/sour assertion of its strength, with a bitter/sour fruity finish. A tough beer to rate, as it has to be served in optimum condition to appreciate it. Drinking it in a top pub, as is my privilege tonight, helps. But even still, every sip is different, every finish reveals a slightly different shade of its character. Worth exploring for its many facets.
minutemat (16258) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask @ Winter Beer Festival, Prince of Wales, Shrewsbury. Pours chestnut brown with a rich taste encompassing plums, fruit cake, dried fruits, spices, dark malts.. not bad at all.
Olut (21769) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask @ Fox & Goose, Hebden Bridge. Dark ruby in colour with a thin head. It’s strength is just about evident and it has a small sweet character. Medium bodied.
Theydon_Bois (46224) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask at the Beacon Hotel, Sedgley, 06/07/13 on the RB Black Country Bash. Dark mahogony brown with a good sized tan head. Nose is roasty malts, light chocolate, dark fruits, plummy notes, sugars. Taste comprises dark malts, berry fruit, light cocoa, dark fruits. Medium bodied with a little punch, soft carbonation, hint of alcohol in the finish. Solid stuff, had many a pint of this over the years and this was the best place to rate it! A boozey rich mild!
RichTheVillan (12489) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at Stourbridge Beer Festival; brown pour slight red tinge with minimal brown head, sweet nutty aroma, quite sweet taste almost jam like with dark fruits decent malts.
Fergus (31329) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the gothique 29/03/13. Fruity berry aroma with some caramel. Flavour is rounded salty soft caramel. Strong for a mild. Very nice. Soft carb.
RuneBlix (26316) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Half pint, gravicask at The 8th Redhill Beer Festival. Shared with Finn. Next to black coloured body. Shiny dark surface. Chocolate malts to the nose added by a modest tartness. Well flavoured with dark malts providing hints of chocolate and anise as well as a touch of berries. Smooth in the mouth. Well bodied and well made, 02.11.2012).
jimgreen (21510) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Cask at the Birmingham Beer Festival 2012. Well, this is perhaps the most interesting and the strongest mild I've ever had! It poured dark brown with a reddish hue and no head at all. It was completely lifeless. The aroma was rather weak but the richness of the flavour made up for that! It was big and fruity with a nice balanced bitterness that went straight to my heart and at 6% my head wasn't far behind! Worth tracking down!
BlackHaddock (17284) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Aug 2006 with updates:I am very lucky because I have only drank this beer at the Beacon Hotel (The brewery) or at CAMRA beer fests. It obviously doesn’t travel to well, according to some reports on here, which is a great shame, because kept well and drank out of a pint pot it is wonderful. Dark Ruby Brown in colour, as its name suggests, no head should be fully formed, just a whisper or two of white froth which soon disappears as you take great gulps of the beer. The aroma is so complexed, it fills your brain with an overload of pulses, mine being unable to unscramble them to discribe each beery one. The taste is heavy, and again complexed and diverse in flavours, all the tastes linger, fruits, malts, hops all blended into a huge explosion of what a great British Strong Mild should be like. Throw your bottles away and try and visit the Brewery in Sedgley. Update Feb 2009. Had three pints last Thursday in ’Ye Olde Robin Hood’ Ironbridge, Shropshire. Still a wonderful beer in cask form, please don’t let the bottle sour your view of a true classic. March 2012 update: visited the brewery again, still a fantastic pint!
Scopey (25115) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask at Wandsworth Beer Festival, March 2012. It pours deep ruby, with a thin beige head. The nose is vinous, red berry, cherry, tartness, chocolate, sweet jam and caramel. The taste is dark fruit - blackcurrant, cherry, bramble, jam, vinous notes, chocolate, caramel, roasted malt and leather, with a some dryness in the finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Good, but perhaps a bit too sweet.