Leighton (34941) reviewed Pale Amber from Sarah Hughes Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask at the Crosse Keys, JDW. Clear, golden-brown pour with a soft head. Lots of dried fruit and hearty toast on the nose. Lightly sweet flavor, more dried fruit, some leather, grass and leaves give bitterness. Light to medium in body with fine carbonation. Finishes fruity with mild sweetness and some lingering hops. Kind of alright. (3.5)
Cask at the Beacon Hotel during the RateBeer Black Country Bus Bash. Pours clear yellow with a creamy white head. Mild buttery dough in the nose. Light sweet flavor with odd grass and hay, some minerals. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Lightly dry to finish with faint dough, hay and grass. OK but seems slightly out of sorts. (3.0)
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Snowflake from Sarah Hughes Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
5th February 2011
Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival. Hazy amber beer. Ghostly white head. Light dry palate. Another very sweet beer from this brewer. Very sweet marmalade with candy sweet red fruits underneath. Trace of bubblegum in there somewhere. Semi dry finish. Now I like a sweet beer - I really do - but this was almost too sweet for me!
madmitch76 (40452) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
5th February 2011
Chelmsford Winter Beer Festival. Clear brown beer. residual tan head. Light dry palate. Sweeeeeet malt! Well integrated sweet candyish red fruits. Trace of toffee. Light dry finish. Bubblegum and jammy fruits aftertaste. This is a bloody sweet beer - and I have a sweet beer tooth but I could imagine this would bee too much for most!
Svesse (15730) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
(Cask at GBBF, London Earl’s Court, 5 Aug 2010) Dark brown colour with ruby hints, brief beige head. Malty, fruity nose with dried fruit, cherries and caramel. Malty, fruity taste with notes of caramel, dried fruit, raisins, hints of chocolate and a slightly bittersweet finish. Medium to full body, sweet (almost at touch too sweet), with a fairly mild bitterness. Tasty and nice.
yespr (55501) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From cask. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is dark roasted malt, vague liqourice and butterish. Sweet malty, liqourice and dark roasted malt. Mild acidic and hardroasted malt finish.6-3-6-3-11=2.9
From cask at Egham 13. Pours clear and golden deep amber with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted malty, chocolate and roasted malty. Bitter and lingering chocolate into a smooth malty finish.
wheresthepath (3674) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
[Gravity cask at Chippenham beerfest] Blackcurrant, sweet chocolate, roasted chestnuts, Horlicks-like malt, noticeably alcoholic. A good if unusual mild.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Surprise from Sarah Hughes Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask gravity at St Albans BF 09. Gold, slight haze, thin white head. Pretty good premium golden ale. Good fullness on the pale malts. Decent biscuit flavour. Some citrus fruityness on finish. Little hop bitterness but good citrusy furit. Fine.
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Pale Amber from Sarah Hughes Brewery 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
Cask gravity at St Albans BF 09. Clear gold, thin off white head. Diacetyl aroma. Butter in mouth. Bit hard, like quite a few of the beers here. Like hard butterscotch sweets. Diacetyl just kills it. Grassy hop finish.
Bullit (6144) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask @ 3 Judges. Dark brown colour, small tan head. Aroma of nutty malts and fruits. Alcohol very noticable. Flavour of toasted malts and fruits. Alcoholic. Bitter finish. Needs a rerate. Can’t get past the strong alcohol presence. Rerate: cask @ 3 Judges. Aroma of glue. Dry and somewhat smoky finish. +.4.
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Pale Amber from Sarah Hughes Brewery 17 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Cask at Cloisters edinburgh ... Golden orange ...honey hop nose ... light sweet mellow fruit with a grassy back bone... quite dry in linger.