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.

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5.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask @ Three Pigeons, Halifax. Golden-blonde with a creamy head. Hopped with a small fruity bitterness. Has a crisp fairly smooth texture.

Tried from Cask on 04 Jul 2014 at 09:23


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Clear golden beer with a grapefruit aroma. Flavour has a grapefruit element too but there’s a sweeter element to balance it out.

Tried on 26 Jun 2014 at 11:34


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask @ Three Pigeons, Halifax. Clear gold with a smooth head. Has a light fruit hopped aroma and taste.

Tried from Cask on 30 May 2014 at 13:51


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

Keg @ Three Pigeons, Halifax. Clear copper-amber and very summer fruit in character. Has a fair carbonation in the palate.

Tried on 30 May 2014 at 13:48


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

Cask @ Post Office Vaults, Birmingham. Surprisingly flavoursome mild this. Pours dark black, a great malty blend with a few raisins dotted about. Fresh tasting, delicious and moreish.

Tried from Cask on 22 May 2014 at 13:15


5.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Cask @ Travellers Inn, Hipperholme. Blonde with a thick smooth head. Has a sour malt bitterness with some lemon citrus evident.

Tried from Cask on 07 May 2014 at 08:59


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at The Three PIgeons, Halifax. Hoppiest beer of the evening by a long chalk. Pours clear gold, thick white head, big bubbles. High carbonation. Lots of citrus, resin and pine aromas. Taste has a big bitterness, faint sweet in the back. Bitter finish. Nice one to end on.

Tried on 24 Apr 2014 at 12:03


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Cask at The Wellington, Birmingham. Poured a clear dark brown with a thin broken tan head. The aroma is roasted malt, red berry fruit. The flavour is medium bitter with a watery malt liqourice peaty smoke dark chocolate hop bitter pepper spice palate and a long liqourice bitter finish. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Tried from Cask on 20 Apr 2014 at 07:23


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Draught (Crown Posada, Newcastle) - Golden with lively carbonation and a white head. Passion fruit, grapefruit and lolly sticks (!) in the aroma. Hoppy and tangy taste with biscuity malt, peach and grapefruit detected.

Tried on 18 Apr 2014 at 21:35


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

Keg @ Hop, Leeds. Very pale with a high hoppyness full of grapefruit flavours. Quite bitter.

Tried on 17 Apr 2014 at 11:07