Drake (22940) reviewed County (Filtered) from Ruddles 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
16.9 oz bottle. Pours brown (duh) with a small head that does not last. Very sour, pilsnerish aroma. Taste is bitter up front, but very creamy overall. Very nice.
maniac (11822) reviewed County (Filtered) from Ruddles 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Clear copper body with a medium creamy off-white head. Slightly skunked due to clear bottle. Sweet malty aroma with a floral bitterness. Dry malty caramel flavor with a floral hop flavor. Slightly metallic.
Fin (18516) reviewed Hedgerow from Ruddles 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
[i]Cask/Gravity at The Swan Beer Festival, Islip 05-10-07[/i] Deep amber pour with a synthetic smell. Tastes of vimto and some fruity syrupy, it’s shocking, the once proud badge of Ruddles is really having it’s face slammed into the dirt by GK with yet another shocking offering, why are they bothering.
oh6gdx (51641) reviewed Hedgerow from Ruddles 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask@GBBF2007. Amber colour, mediumsized beige head. Aroma is wooden, hoppy and slightly grassy with some slight fruityness in it. Flavour is caramel, sweet fruits, some malts. Dry bitterness dominates the finish.
Marko (22746) reviewed County (Filtered) from Ruddles 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared with and courtesy of ozujsko (thanks!) Poured a lovely dark amber/red colour with a white head that went at a slow to medium pace. The nose is nice... spicy hopiness, grapefruit, malt. The taste is dominated by a relatively strong hoppy bitterness, grapefruit again, and fruity maltiness. Tasty enough for me. I like it.
Harrisoni (26309) reviewed Hedgerow from Ruddles 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Cask gravity at GBBF 2007. Amber, thin beige head. Slightly sweet, kiddie sweet fruit. Base beer is fine. This sweet fruit on the end combined with a tingling hop is pretty poor. In fact it’s pretty bad.
fonefan (85107) reviewed Orchard (Cask) from Ruddles 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Cask (handpump) @ The Corner House, B3, Birmingham. Clear medium amber color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, fruity-vinegar, toffee, butter. Flavor is moderate sweet and some acetic (vinegar) with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat.
Quack-Duck (11942) reviewed County (Cask) from Ruddles 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
on tap in Exeter. Low carbonation, creamy head. Malty, only slightly hoppy and fruity.
Quack-Duck (11942) reviewed Best (Cask) from Ruddles 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
on tap in Exeter. Pale yellow colour, tiny head. Very thin and watery, slightly malty and hoppy.
CosmicCharlie (9705) reviewed County (Filtered) from Ruddles 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours bright amber into an English pint. Offwhite head quickly subsides to skim surface. Metallic English hop aromas. Smooth, sweet caramel upfront with a lasting bitter hop finish.