Loretta
Oxbow Brewing Company in Newcastle, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Rotating|
Score
7.22
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Loretta is a farmhouse ale brewed with spelt and European hops.
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8/10
Tried
on 16 Jul 2025
at 12:43
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from the lcbo. Cloudy, pale yellow pour, with a large white head. Pale malts, wheat, light spice, green and herbal. Light mouth feel, lively carb. Low bitterness, very refreshing and crisp. Light cereals, grassy, light lemon zest. Crushable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:57
7/10
Tried
on 13 Dec 2024
at 16:50
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Taster at brewery. Pale, cloudy golden, thin head. Light grassy, fruity aroma. Taste is super soft, bready, faint sweetness. Probably the most approachable farmhouse ale I've ever tried.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2022
at 18:08
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft. Lightly hazy straw beer with a whitish head. Light tart and light wheat aroma. Tart and light wheat flavor. Medium bodied. Tartness and wheat linger with light spice.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jul 2021
at 22:13
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pours hazy pale yellow into a tulip. Bright white head with excellent retention recedes leaving scant sheets. Citrus and funk aromas. Soft with sweet honey, hay and meadow upfront turning to lemon and funk in the lasting finish.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Aug 2020
at 22:36
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a clear very pale yellow with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a combination of straw and wheat with a bit of Brett underlying. Flavor has dry wheat and a bit of straw with a light funk coming through.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jan 2020
at 01:56
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample at the Portland tasting room. Cloudy pale yellow color with a thin white head that evaporates quickly to a film. Short strings of lacing. Aroma of yeast, lemon and malt. Light-bodied with flavors of lemongrass, peppery yeast, mild hops and malt. The finish is grassy and lemony with a funky citrus aftertaste. Above average overall.
Tried
on 23 Oct 2017
at 14:59
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ Row 34, Boston. Hazy straw, with a fairly thick. Dry, herbal and yeasty. Light body, clean pale malts. Light bitterness.
Tried
on 12 Oct 2017
at 12:29
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Farmhouse Tap and Grill.
This was poured into a long stemmed taster.
The appearance was a hazy bronzed burnt yellow color with a thin white foamy head that dissipated at a nice pace. Semi-messy lacing.
The aroma starts off with some sweet citrus, fresh cut grass, then some peppercorn turning into some lemon pulpy sweetness.
The flavor takes all of the previously mentioned aromas and sweetly combined. Nice sweet to spicy aftertaste with finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with nice crisp semi-sweet feel to it. Carbonation runs light. Peppercorn hits just righ in a balanced harshness
Overall, really nice saison that I would have again.
This was poured into a long stemmed taster.
The appearance was a hazy bronzed burnt yellow color with a thin white foamy head that dissipated at a nice pace. Semi-messy lacing.
The aroma starts off with some sweet citrus, fresh cut grass, then some peppercorn turning into some lemon pulpy sweetness.
The flavor takes all of the previously mentioned aromas and sweetly combined. Nice sweet to spicy aftertaste with finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with nice crisp semi-sweet feel to it. Carbonation runs light. Peppercorn hits just righ in a balanced harshness
Overall, really nice saison that I would have again.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Aug 2016
at 01:20