Rat Brewery
Brewpub
in
Huddersfield,
West Yorkshire,
England 🏴
Owned by
Ossett Brewery
Associated Venue: Rat & Ratchet
Established in 2011
Contact
The Rat & Ratchet, 40 Chapel Hill, Huddersfield, HD1 3EB, England
Description
Housed beneath The Rat and Ratchet and since the very first brew of Lab Rat in 2011, head brewer, Paul Spencer and brewer Robin Moss, have created rodent themed beers to critical acclaim. Our beers are distinctive, extreme, generally intensely hopped and anything but average, experimenting with a range of different beer styles, strengths and ingredients. Rat beer is now infecting all four corners of the UK faster than the Black Death, turning a local infestation into a national plague. White Rat in particular has emerged as the flagship beer and now sits within the Ossett core range.
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Huddersfield Beer Festival. Blonde and hoppy with a small head. It’s very dry tasting in the palate with a pale ale texture. Its fruits are most evident in its nose.
Tried
on 03 Oct 2014
at 14:45
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cask @ Rat & Ratchet, Huddersfield. Golden with a creamy head. Has a strange milky-berry aroma and taste.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Sep 2014
at 05:18
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Cask at the Wellington; dark mahogany pour with a bubbly light tan head, coffee and roast aroma, taste has instant coffee, light roasted malts and a hit of plain chocolate and dark fruits.
Tried
from Cask
on 06 Sep 2014
at 02:49
6/10
Tried
on 24 Aug 2014
at 09:14
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Wellington, Birmingham. Poured a crystal clear light amber with a frothy white head. The aroma is spicy ginger. The flavour is light bitter with a big ginger, battered sausage, spicy palate. Yes indeed, the battered sausage came shining through. It really tasted like the spicy battered sausage from my local chippy! Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Aug 2014
at 03:47
7/10
Another fine beer by Rat!
Tried
on 03 Aug 2014
at 21:39
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Half-pint, keg at The Hop in York. Clear golden coloured body. Bubbly ring at the surface. Fragile lacing. Fruit and coffee on the nose. Flavours of mid-tart berries, hints of grapefruit and a touch of bitter coffee grounds to the ending. Medium bodied. Interesting and different. Quite alright (11.07.2014).
Tried
on 01 Aug 2014
at 12:07
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Half pint, poured from keg at the brewpub. Clear amber-gold body. Spotty lacing on the glassware. Peach and lemon on the nose. Mixture of mid-sweet malts and grapefruit to the taste buds. Bittersweet finish. Natural, soft carbonated. Well bodied. Likable (Huddersfield 09.07.2014).
Tried
on 01 Aug 2014
at 01:12
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Cask ale, hand-pulled at the brewpub. Clear amber coloured body. Crocheted lacework to the glassware. Juicy malts on the nose. The taste follows the nose with caramel malts and fruity hops. Fine bodied. Smooth on the swallow. Pleasing (shared with Steinar and Nina during a pub crawl in Hudderfield 09.07.2014).
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Aug 2014
at 01:11
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Shared half pint, cask ale at the brewpub. Clear golden body colour. Filmy layer, spotty lacing. Farmyard with fruity hints on the nose. Fruit hoppy taste with peach and pineapple. Rounded bittersweet ending. Refreshing (Huddersfield 09.07.2014).
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Aug 2014
at 01:09