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!
Kermis (23416) reviewed Snowflake from Sarah Hughes Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Cask at Walsall Beer festival. Clear amber pour with a small white head. Sweet malty fruity aroma. Flavor is sticky sweet with malt and alcohol.
Deanso (15673) reviewed Snowflake from Sarah Hughes Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask at the Walsall beer festival 2012. Almost no head. Clear amber pour. Quite decent
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.
Leighton (34941) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask at the Crosse Keys, JDW, London. Pours Clear, red-brown with a soft, foamy head. Lots of dark, ripe fruits in the nose. Medium to big sweet flavor with grapes, raisins (ha, both grapes AND raisins!), booze, faint cocoa, wood. Medium to full in body with soft carbonation. Lightly warming finish with some alcohol notes, lots of dark fruits, prunes, raisins, faint vodka, toast. Ummm. Interesting stuff here.
Tommann (7637) reviewed Pale Amber from Sarah Hughes Brewery 13 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at the Beacon Hotel, Sedgley. Pours gold with a small head. Aroma is straw malt and light citrus hop. Taste has biscuit, straw and light citrus. Bitter, straw finish. Lovely.
Leighton (34941) reviewed Snowflake from Sarah Hughes Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Gravity cask at the Wandsworth Halloween Festival 2011. Pours rich, caramel-red with a small, white head. Rich fruit aroma, subtle booze, caramel. Very rich, sweet flavor, toasted sugar, ripe fruits, slight leafy bitters. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Warm finish, sticky sugar, booze, apples and other fruits. Not bad.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Snowflake from Sarah Hughes Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask @ Royal Oak, Twerton. Dull amber. A little caramel aroma, with hints at being sticky. Sticky body, though, with a little nettle-like spiciness. Interesting might be the best word to describe it. A little bit of alcohol late - good if sweet and sticky is your thing.
Tommann (7637) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at the Queens Head, Wordsley. Pours dark brown with a thin head. Aroma is Coke, dark fruits and a little roast. Taste has nutty dark fruit to start. Finish has dark fruits, Coke, roast malt and a little alcohol.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Dark Ruby from Sarah Hughes Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask at GBBF 2010. A dark brown beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt and soy sauce. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt and caramel, as well as lighter notes of soy sauce.