Loretta
Oxbow Brewing Company in Newcastle, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Rotating|
Score
7.22
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Mansquito (19309) reviewed Loretta from Oxbow Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Mission Dolores, Brooklyn tap: pours opaque yellow with a white head. Aroma is funky yeast, lemon, and light spice. Taste is funky and lightly bitter. Taste is quite dry with a nice finish. Quite nice.
yngwie (24447) reviewed Loretta from Oxbow Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Novare Red, Portland, Maine. A yellow, unclear beer with a small white head leaving curtains. It’s quite fruity on the nose, with some grains. Citrusy and lightly flowery. It’s dry, medium bodied and with a high but nice carbonation level. There’s an appropriate bitterness in the flavor, it’s fruity and lightly grainy. Lasting finish. A thirst quenched. Easy drinkable. 150609
Meilby (14856) reviewed Loretta from Oxbow Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught @ Novare Res Bier Café, Portland, ME
Pours hazy yellow with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, wheat, yeast and citrus. Taste is light sweet and light to medium bitter with a long yeasty, citrus and peppery finish. Body is light, texture is thin, carbonation is soft.
radagast83 (13601) reviewed Loretta from Oxbow Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at Pizzeria Paradiso. Poured a clear yellow color with a small off-white head. Aroma was floral notes, light spice, some mild funk. Flavor was floral notes, some light lemon citrus. Light yeast.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed Loretta from Oxbow Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught at Oxbow, Portland, ME, 5/17/15
More or less the same pour as their other saisons and grisettes. Mostly high clarity, though with a touch of haziness appropriate to the style and a small but well-retained white head topping the pale-to-bright golden liquid.
Loretta is a very special beer. Perhaps not if you were exploring the Belgian countryside (though I think it still stands up fine against those). The hops are noble and rustic and all over the place in the nose, conjuring up dry leaves, very light cheese rind, dried herbs and all sorts of early-morning-dew-on-the-lawn-and-flowers-type of aromatics. Rarely have I smelled a beer where the hops give it a funk yet don’t detract otherwise in aroma or flavor (usually any sort of funky hop character is unwanted). Not this one. Light acidity on the end, soft, pils malts and interesting spelt character somewhat reminiscent of Blaugies d’epeautre (though certainly not as disinct or quite as rustic). But anything that can evoke memories of that beer is doing a lot of good things in my book. No alcohol or flaws.
The flavor is delicious as well, perhaps not as crisp on account of some of the earthy and lightly funky flavors, but the acidity on the end gives a mild tartness that does help brighten things, while the attenuation is spot on (very dry) yet the malt comforting and softly succulent. Would love to brew a beer emulating the hops and hop schedule used here (not that I know what it is). Fantastic and as usual, very underappreciated on our Imperial Website.
solidfunk (22078) reviewed Loretta from Oxbow Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pretty interesting with the spelt. Light but very drinkable. Golden pour with OK head and lacing. Light hay. Some crispness in finish. Tap at Churchkey.
GenDV138 (9261) reviewed Loretta from Oxbow Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
4 oz pour on draft at ChurchKey. Clear light yellow with off-white head. Aromas of floral, herbs, light spice, light funk. Tastes of floral, herbs, spice, citrus, lemon. Medium body with a dry finish.
johnnnniee (7516) reviewed Loretta from Oxbow Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap at Goods from the Woods 2014 with Festero. The spelt gives this a cereal almost cheerios character which worked quite well with the yeasty esters. Light refreshing brew that I quite enjoyed.
Leighton (35102) reviewed Loretta from Oxbow Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Keg at the brewery. Pours clear yellow with a creamy, white head. The nose holds zesty lemon and biscuity pale malts, some straw. Light sweet flavor with pleasant dry dough, some salty sourdough bread, lemon peel. Light bodied with average carbonation. Clean finish, lightly bitter, with further hay, citrus peel and restrained, biscuity pale malt sugars. Great balance, super drinkable. Great.
Chalumeaux (5240) reviewed Loretta from Oxbow Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Light fresh and crisp nice aroma and mouth feel. Refreshing taste and earthy feeling.