Another brewery bits the dust, this time Wychwood in Witney, the beers will be brewed elsewhere but we all know it won’t be the same.
Get your Hobgoblin whilst you can
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Its a shame when this happens but to be honest its been a long time since i asked SWMBO to get one of their beers when i give her my list for the weekend.
Have they given a reason?
Have they given a reason?
The usual cut costs.
I do like a hobgoblin gold if it’s kept well, when I used to go to my parents the local did a very nice pint.
I do like a hobgoblin gold if it’s kept well, when I used to go to my parents the local did a very nice pint.
Hobgobgold is pish to what it was when it had Nelson Sauv.
Interesting...I can no longer taste the NS in it and I had a pint on Sunday which was bland.
Years ago I emailed Wychwood after a recipe and was told the original has NS and that I should use NS and that the current (then) didn't as it was too expensive (for Marstons probably). Perhaps they put it back in.
Years ago I emailed Wychwood after a recipe and was told the original has NS and that I should use NS and that the current (then) didn't as it was too expensive (for Marstons probably). Perhaps they put it back in.
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Oh no thats a real shame, I don't often drink it, but when I do I always enjoy it.
Always a shame when a brewery folds, but I've personally always found their beer *****. Gold was decent back in the day.
Graz
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To be honest after they got taken over by Marston's I'd assumed they just brewed it wherever but I guess if you take something like that over it makes sense to keep the facilities as well.
Hobgoblin is ruined anyway, I remember having a few pints of it not long after moving to Tewkesbury after I left Uni in the nineties, it was 6.5% out of the cask and you certainly knew about it after a couple. Tasted amazing, much like this description on Wikipedia: "full bodied and well balanced with a chocolate toffee malt flavour, moderate bitterness and a distinctive fruity character with a ruby red glow"
Nothing like that now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wychw...ing as Scarecrow-,Hobgoblin,as a "Ruby beer".
Hobgoblin is ruined anyway, I remember having a few pints of it not long after moving to Tewkesbury after I left Uni in the nineties, it was 6.5% out of the cask and you certainly knew about it after a couple. Tasted amazing, much like this description on Wikipedia: "full bodied and well balanced with a chocolate toffee malt flavour, moderate bitterness and a distinctive fruity character with a ruby red glow"
Nothing like that now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wychw...ing as Scarecrow-,Hobgoblin,as a "Ruby beer".
They may only quickly dip 1 single NS hop in it thesedays, and pass it down the line to other marstons beers
