Sunday 18 December 2011

The seventh Beer Of Christmas

Cropton Brewery Rudolphs Revenge




Rudolph's Revenge is one of those Christmas beers that I end up re-visiting each year among a heap load of other readily available seasonals. The bright labelling, its ruby red hue, bready, yeasty malt-driven aroma and zippy forest fruit notes all bring back memories of many a Christmas past (more specifically knocking it back in a half drunken state whilst trying several other beers at Boxing Day parties).

But take the party out of the equation and you can appeciate this better. Its very orthodox bready berry fruit driven palate is enhanced by the natural bottle conditioning. Like the last beer of the series it's very old world and CAMRA friendly (no shock and awe mega hop impact here). So more or less a flawless traditional best bitter and as for the more new world beers, well we might get to them later in the series. 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Sounds good this, only ever had their Monkman's Slaughter which I think is superb and their Yorkshire Moors. Both my local beer shops have a big range of their beers so will check this out, cheers :)