Ringwood Brewery Razorback (Cask)

Razorback (Cask)
(Batch of Razor Back)

 

Ringwood Brewery in Ringwood, Hampshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular
Score
6.10
ABV: 3.8% IBU: - Ticks: 127
Launched as Best Bitter with the opening of the Ringwood Brewery in 1978. Awarded Bronze Medal at the Munich Beer Festival in 2005. The brewery was bought by Marston's (later Carlsberg-Marston's) in 2007. Rebranded as Razorback in November 2015. Production moved to Banks's in Dec 2023 when the Ringwood Brewery closed, and then to the former Marstons brewery in Burton on Trent in 2025.

The perfect supping beer! Our first brew and still the New Forest’s favourite tipple. Nose: Tempting hop aroma with fruit notes. Palate: Good malt feel in the mouth, dry, tangy fruit finish. Comments: Delicious, easy drinking slightly tart pale bitter.
 

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5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Cask at The Three Stags Bebington. Copper brown, small off-white head. Aroma has a slight fruityness. Last has a bit of fruit and slight bitterness. Ok and drinkable.

Tried from Cask on 16 Apr 2014 at 11:24


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

(Cask at Market Porter, Borough, London, 23 Nov 2013) Dark amber colour with creamy, off-white head. Malty, fruity nose with caramel, nuts, dark fruit and bread. Malty taste with notes of caramel, dark bread, dark fruit, nuts and a gentle bitterness in the finish. Rather light body, with balanced sweetness. Perfectly drinkable and quite enjoyable, but hardly exciting.

Tried from Cask on 11 Dec 2013 at 14:04


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask @ The White Horse Inn - Swanage, Dorset. Clear, deep golden body with a small of-white head. Mild aroma, mainly malt and caramel. Smooth malty flavor, some caramel and light, pleasant bitterness. Medium body and aftertaste. Smooth, straight forward bitter.

Tried from Cask on 31 Jul 2013 at 04:41


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask (backlog). Goldeny amber colour with a minor head. Aroma is bready and mildly caramelly malts, some slight fruits, wood, toasted notes as well as some slight grassyness. Flavour is sweet caramel malts, mild crystal notes as well as some tea leafs, floral and grassy hops as well as mild toffeeish notes.

Tried from Cask on 25 Jun 2012 at 11:56


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask at the Stag Inn, Dolgellau. Pours dark brown with a medium head. Aroma is toast with a hint of charcoal. Taste is bready malt throughout with a medium bitter finish.

Tried from Cask on 04 Oct 2011 at 12:12


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Mjuk, len och något oljig. Härlig humlearom och maltig kropp. Måttlig beska. Klassisk engelsk bitter.

Tried on 02 Sep 2011 at 06:40


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Gravity cask at the Bree Louise. Pours orange-amber with no head. Aroma holds notes of toasty bread, leaves and ripe fruits. Nice flavor, sweet with caramel and dough, and some leafy and herbal hops. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Dry finish, sugary and bready with lingering caramel and dried leaves. Nice beer.

Tried from Cask on 25 Feb 2011 at 07:41


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

(Cask at a roadside pub close to Stonehenge) Quite an ordinary bitter. The colour was closer to copper than amber. Aroma had some fruitiness and hops were noticeable in the taste. Nothing wrong in this one.

Tried from Cask on 24 Oct 2010 at 09:42


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask (The Alma, Upham) - Copper coloured. Dried fruit, malt and some faint hoppy hints in the aroma. Raisins, caramel, spicy malt and a some hops in the taste. Nothing remarkable, but tasty enough.

Tried from Cask on 28 Aug 2010 at 06:30


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Clear amber with a medium white head. Sweet aroma with malty aroma with caramel notes. Sweet flavour with caramel malt, hints of hops and flowers. Finished sweet.

Tried on 08 Jun 2009 at 09:04