Ridgeway Reindeers Revolt

Brewed by Hepworth
Style: English Strong Ale
Horsham, England

pours with a magnifico head, lacing is supreme ... smell of sweet maple syrup malt ... damn smooth . . . dark tan orange .. pretty nice simple english ale .. it ain’t the bee’s knee’s!!

Sampled as part of a gift pack. Poured with a nice light brown hue and a thin lacey head. GOes down smooth. The malts slightly harsh and have a nice after taste. Served cold, maybe would have been better warm.

16.9oz bottle - Pours copper colored with a big frothy head. It has a mild aroma mainly of English hops with some bready malt in there. The flavor is similar to a bitter and the hops are well balanced by pale biscuit malt tones. It’s medium bodied and finishes kind of dry. I rather enjoyed this one though it is a little overpriced for what it is.

This is another disappointing Ridgeway winter beer (unfortunate since I love their Ridgeway Bitter). It looks good, a deep, clear red copper with a light tan, dense, thick head that only slowly shrinks to a dense, permanent 1/4 inch head that leaves a little weak lacing. The aroma is mostly malt, crackers, yeasty wheat bread, with hints of nuts, earth, and pine- very English and very nice. The taste, though, really is lacking. It is mostly alcholic with a thin, weak malty element, followed at first by rather acrid, bitter hops with the taste of stale bitter leaves and nothing else, finished with a pretty good, persistent biscuit quality. As it warms, the acrid quality decreases and the beer becomes more smooth, but despite this and the good, persistent toasty biscuit flavour, it is consistently too bland and too alcoholic. There is too little malt or hop flavour to compensate for the alcohol quality or the acrid bitterness. It’s ok and drinkable, but not worth it, despite its good aroma and looks.

Bottle. Clear amber, with thick, dense, off-white head. Malty aroma, with a modest hop bite. Sweet, with a simple malt flavor that barely hides the alcohol.

1pt.9oz bottle wife got me for Cristmas. Medium sweet malt aroma. Dark gold body with big foamy head that forms a halo on body thoughout beer. Chewy malts and cherry jucice flavor Smooth on the palate a good novaltiy beer, but also a good beer to drink.

Bottled. Yellow-orange pour with some fine white bubbles, small head. No immediate aroma, but detectable by swirling. Butterscotch and ginger spice notes predominantly. Satisfying flavors of orange peel, ginger and hops , but nothing to rave about here. Finishes thin and dry.

Slightly cloudy amber with a small off-white head. Toffee malty aroma, with a touch of grassy hops and fruity yeast. Sweet and simple malty flavour.