4BEERS: R

RAILWAY TAVERN

Bladderwrack Stout (4.3%), Crab and Winkle Mild (3.7%), Fireside Porter (4.3%), Historic Nettle Ale (4.5%), Old Ale (4.7%)

RAMSBURY

Bitter (3.6%): Pleasant session bitter, but quite thin in body. (DN)
Flint Knapper (4.2%), Gold (4.5%), Kennet Valley (4.1%)

RANDALL'S

Cynful (3.7%): In bottle form this is a Tesco Beer Challenge winner for 2004. Chocolate malt and Kent hops make for a traditional mild that starts off with a big, foamy head. Delicious. (DN)

RCH
Ale Mary (6%)
Double Header (5.3%): A dangerously drinkable golden brew made with pale ale malt and Goldings hops.
East Street Cream (5%), Firebox (6%), Hewish IPA (3.6%), On the Tiles (4%), Old Slug Porter (4.5%)
P G Steam (3.9%): An amber coloured bitter with citrus notes and a hint of sweetness.
Pitchfork (4.3%): A light-coloured beer with a great hop twang and a suggestion of grapefruit. Very moreish. (DN)
Santa Fe (7.3%), Steam Carnival (4.7%), Steam Fair (4.5%), Steam Festival (4.5%), Steam Harvest (4.8%), Steam Lovers (4.7%), Steam Pole (4.9%), Steam Sale (4.5%), Steam Showers (4.8%), Steam Special (5%), Steam Spring (4.6%), Steamed Flames (4.5%), Steaming Santa (4.5%), TLC (4%)

REBELLION

Bladdered (4.4%), Blitzed (4.4%), Blonde (4.3%), Blotto (4.3%), Brahms (4.2%), IPA (3.7%), Mutiny (4.5%), Overdraft Ale (4.3%), Pickled (4.2%), Red (4.7%), Roasted Nuts (4.6%), Slaughtered (4.2%), Sleighed (4.2%), Sloshed (4.4%)
Smuggler (4.1%): A smooth amber bitter with a dry, fruity finish.
Sparko (4.3%), Stewed (4.4%), Well Oiled (4.2%), Zebedee (4.7%), Zonked (4.2%)

RED ROCK

Back Beach (3.8%)
Red Rock (4.2%): A cracking beer with a fruity hop and good bitter finish. (DN)

RED SQUIRREL

Conservation Bitter (4.1%), Dark Ruby Mild (3.7%), English Wheat Beer (4.5%), Hertfordshire Honey Porter (5%), IPA (4.1%), Original English IPA (5%), Premium Ale (4.5%), Red Squirrel Bitter (3.9%), Red Squirrel Gold (4.2%)Rose Gold Summer Ale (4.5%), Scottish Ale (4.3%), Stout (4.9%)

RHYMNEY

Bevan's Bitter (4.2%), Centenary Ale (3.9%)
Export (5%): A well-rounded, robust beer, not too sweet, with a nutty flavour from the hops. A deep copper colour. It packs a punch, this one — to can tell its 5%!
Rhymney Bitter (4.5%)

RIDGEWAY

Oxfordshire Blue (5%): Head of tight white foam. Golden colour. Satsumas taste levelled out by a pale malt infusion, but leaving a bitter, citrus fruity finish. Tesco's Beer Awards winner for 2006, available exclusively in that store in bottle. (DN)

RIDLEY'S

Tolly Cobbold Bitter (3.8%): A satisfying, ruby red, malty session bitter. (DN)
Witch Finder (4.3%): Black with ruby coming through when it's held up to the light, this is a dark beer that doesn't deliver cloying sweetness but has pleasing bitter chocolate taste. My Halloween tipple of 2004. (DN)

RINGWOOD

Best Bitter (3.8%): Hop aroma leads to a malty palate with a dry, tabgy fruit finish. A very satisfying, easy drinking session bitter.
Forty-niner (4.9%): Fruit and hops provide good balance in a brew which does not taste as strong as it is. Very satisfying indeed. Hops are Challenger, Goldings and Progress. (DN)
Old Thumper (5.6%): One of my favourite strong bitters. A lovely darkish, malty (but not too sweet) pint, with good fruit notes (strawberry?) that deserves a bit of reverence! (DN)
Porter (4.7%): A beautiful black, silky, smooth porter; very, very drinkable with very well balanced malt notes. (DN)
78 (4.2%): Brewed in 2008 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Ringwood Brewery, just before it was purchased by Marston's. Golden in colour with a good malt and Goldings and Sovereign hop balance.

ROBINSON'S

Cooper's Bell (3.8%)
Dizzy Blonde (3.8%): A light, refreshing summer ale with a clean, zesty, hop-dominated palate and a crsip, dry finish. Hops are Amarillo and Cascade.
Double Hop (5%), English Champion (3.8%), Enigma (4.7%), Hartleys XB (4%), Hatters (3.3%), Kick Off (4.2%), Old Stockport Bitter (3.5%)
Old Tom (8.5%): An archetypal, late-night, winter warmer. Sweet, but not overly so; plenty of bitterness there, coffee and licorice flavours compete on palate. Very potent — no wonder it's sold only in a (very attractive) 330ml bottle. (DN)
Robin (4.5%), Sunny Jim (3.8%)
Top Tipple (3.9%): A light, refreshing golden bitter with citrus and honey aromas leading to a sweet malt palata, balanced by good bitterness.
Unicorn Best Bitter (4.2%): Goldings hops and Crystal malt give a pale, golden, full-flavoured bitter.
Young Tom (4%)

ROOSTER'S

Leghorn (4.3%): A pale coloured beer with a long, fruity finish.

RUDDLES

County (4.3%): A robust, dry, bitter beer, with soft fruit aromas. Owned and brewed by Greene King. There are Bramling Cross, Challenger, Goldings and Northdown hops.

RUDGATE

793 (4.1%), Ahtanum (4.2%), Asgard (3.7%), Aurora (4.3%), Battleaxe (4.2%), Boadicea (4.3%), Crimble Ale (4.2%), Danegate Ale (3.9%), Drunken Drayman (4.2%), Early Masher (3.8%), Fill Her Up (3.9%), Frey's Best (3.9%), Galena (4.1%), Good Elf (3.8%), Hallertau (4.1%), Horn of Ale (4.4%), Idun's Ale (4%), Jorvik (5%), Last One (3.8%), Loki's IPA (4.2%), Mittlefruh (4.2%), Odin's Hall (4.1%), On the House (3.7%), One for the Road (3.7%), One for Yourself (3.7%), Palisade (4.2%), Quikkie (3.9%), Ruby Mild (4.4%), Rudgate Best (3%), Rudolph's Ruin (4.6%), Santium (3.8%), Sea Warrior (4.3%), Simcoe (4.3%), Singing Brewer (3.9%), Sovereign (4.1%), Special (4.5%), Thor's Strength (4.2%), Tomahawk (4.1%), Twist my Arm (3.8%), Viking (3.8%), Well Blathered (5%), Whole Hops (4.2%), Your Tipple (3.7%)