Loddon Hocus Pocus (Bottled)

Brewed by Loddon
Style: Old Ale
Reading, England

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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50cl bottle from Asda, Stevenage. A reddish copper with a fast fading off-white head; aroma of caramel and malt; some red fruit and sweet toffee flavour; and a muddy bitterness to finish, with some rasping alcohol. Pleasant enough.

Bottle from AH Jones Wines, Leamington. Deep chestnut with a fine-lacing beige head. Slightly chocolatey, burnt grain aroma with some black bread. Taste offers up rust, Christmas cake knifed thinly with Marmite, chocolate, HP sauce. Some sticky black garlic and muscovado notes. Good nutty linger with powdery cocoa. Tasty dark brew.

Clear brown of color with a beige head. An aroma of sweets, caramel and nuts. An aroma of caramel and sweets.

Bottle, courtesy of fonefan. It pours a brown body under a small, off-white head. The aroma has nuts and dried fruits, some citrusy hops too. Flavorwise it’s much the same, toffee, nuts, dried fruits and citrus. And of course some bitterness. Medium body. Not a very exiting one, but it drinks quite easily. 110129

Bottled, 500ml from Oddbins, Summertown, Oxon. Copper to brown with slight head. There is a wine like character in the aroma, grapey and fruity. The beer tastes just a little flat, and there is a tartness within the flavour. Plummy, damson with alcohol. A bit mixed up but ok.

Bottle 500ml.

Clear medium to dark brown amber color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, toffee, sweet malt, light chocolate - roasted. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long to average duration, caramel, dark nutty notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110129]

Bottle 500ml @ fonefan
Pours clear dark amber with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of caramel, dried fruits and malt. Taste is medium sweet and light to medium bitter. Body is medium to full, teaxture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Bottle @ Ulfborg Weekend, Jan 2011. Pours dark amber with bubbles on top. Nose is rich malty. Toffee, caramel and fruit. Smooth palate. Vinous. Dark fruit and caramel. Nice.

Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Pours a clear nutty brown with a creamy off-white head. Sweet aroma of nuts, caramel and coconuts. Medium body, sweet nuttiness and a little roast. Subdued bitterness. Well made. 290111

500ml Bottle - Dark brown in colour. Malty and fruity aroma with raisins and caramel. Fruity taste with dried fruit, nuts and caramel.