reidyboy (4093) reviewed Bootiful from Hobsons Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Golden amber with a frothy / creamy white head and a soft biscuit malt and grassy aroma. Creamy smooth with sweet fruit malt and floral hops nicely balanced, twiggy bitterness coming through ahead of a dry finish.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a quite attractive mid amber, pretty clear, small to average sized white head, good enough retention and hints of lacing. Very typical bitter aroma with a biscuity, slightly nutty malt base with a complement of delicate fruity notes (citrus jam, hints of apple). Stumbles a bit in taste: nothing major, but it lacks the easy but soft feel of a good bitter; plus, sweetness and bitterness fail to find harmony and feel quite disconnected. Taste notes as per aroma, average taste intensity. Pretty light in body, average carbonation (a bit more than usual per style), easily drinkable though, as mentioned, it seems to lack that hint of depth that comes from softness. Ok, but definitely not exciting.
Fergus (31537) reviewed Dhustone Stout from Hobsons Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home picked upfrom Amazon thanks to mum. An opaquie black brown coloured pour with a lasting magnolia head. Aroma is faint roast, farmyard roast, agricultural, dry roast, light sweetness. Flavour is composed of nutty roast, dry roasted barley, rustic, light spice. Palate is rounded, drying, fine carbonation. Good solid flavoursome stout for the abv.
Fergus (31537) reviewed Old Henry from Hobsons Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home picked up from Amazon thanks to mum. A clear copper amber coloured pour with a a speckled greyish sticky head. Aroma is nutty, green liquorice, brown bread, apple, toasted malts, . Flavour is composed of semi sweet, layered malts, singed sugars, toffee, green liquorice, spicy, ginger snap, green spicy, Palate is semi sweet, some resin, sticky, moderate fine carbonation.
Fergus (31537) reviewed Best Bitter from Hobsons Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home from Amazon thanks to my mum. A clear mid amber coloured pour with a lasting loose beige head. Aroma is semi sweet, nutty toffee, burnt grass, jammy woodland fruit, apple, white raisin. Flavour is composed of layered malts, nutty, toffee, brown bread, toasted straw, spicy, dried fruits, apple, raisin bread. Palate is semi sweet, well rounded, fine carbonation.
Fergus (31537) reviewed Twisted Spire from Hobsons Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Clear bottle thanks to mum for my birthday. A clear golden straw coloured pour with a short lived loose white head. Aroma is straw, hay. Apple esters, hedgerow hop, grass,, green fruit. Palate is, light, peppery, fine carbonation. Light chalk in the finish. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, agricultural grains, apple, straw, hay. Pretty clean, would be good in a beer garden in summer.
omhper (45152) reviewed Best Bitter from Hobsons Brewery 2 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8
Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm. Clear amber, small head. Leafy nose with mild caramel and citrus. Dryish with light body and crisp, well rounded mouthfeel. Leafs, tobacco, hay and bread. Mid bitter finish. Very quaffable.
omhper (45152) reviewed Pale from Hobsons Brewery 2 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm. Clear golden , small head. Mild honey and citrus up front. Mid sweet with light body and rounded mouthfeel. Light citru, elderflowers and grain. Mid bitter finish.
Martinsh (3678) reviewed Best Bitter from Hobsons Brewery 2 months ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Cask at Pickled Pig, Stafford. Pours “bitter brown” with a medium sized foamy off-white head and excellent lacing. There’s traditional hops and malts in the aroma plus hints of toffee and nuts. In the mouth it is quite bitter with a creamy texture. Flavours are traditional hops, grass, caramel and wholemeal bread. Finish is quite dry and flightly fruity. This is reasonable.
minutemat (16469) reviewed Spirit of 79 from Hobsons Brewery 3 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle, thanks to Mike for this. Graham Turner, an oud lad if ever there was one. Pours a generally clear pale gold, pure white head. A pleasant simplistic malty pale, no doubt designed to be drunk by the pint watching the Town.