Loddon Hocus Pocus

Brewed by Loddon
Style: Old Ale
Reading, England

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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7th December 2011
Cask at Pigs Ear. Clear amber beer, small pale tan head. Smooth palate, a little dry. Very mild toffee malt. Whisper of sulphur. Insipid orange hop. Dry finish. Meh!

A - light caramel, citrus and dry fruit A - mid copper with thin head T - light sweet and sour with roasted bitter P - mid and soft O - real nice

Cask (gravity) @ 28th Pigs Ear Beer and Cider Festival 2011, at The Round Chapel in Hackney, London, England

Clear medium to dark amber brown color with a average, frothy and open, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, dark malt, dark toffee, light roasted. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20111207]

Draught at Akkurat, Stockholm in december 2010. Dark beer with a thin flavor.

Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Amber color, small creamy offwhite head. Malty toffee aroma with mailky notes, fruits and caramel. Malty sweetish flavor, some fruit, some hops.

Cask at Woking 2010 Festival. Pours a deep dark ruby colour with a thin white head. Plenty of fruit and dark malts in the aroma, the taste is again all fruit and malt with a dry bitter finish.

Cask conditioned at a Wetherspoons. Copper with white head. Sweetish, malty bitter, some chemical notes, spooned, dull.

[Cask at the Retreat, Reading] Dark auburn with slight beige head, no carbonation. Aroma and initial taste oaky with some red wine hints. Earthy malt comes through, followed by plums and apples. Finish a little watery. Pleasant enough but forgettable.

A Mes rate: Cask at Baker Street ’Sporks.
Mid amber brown with no head. Big fruity malt and marzipan with some slight sourness and bacon fat. I can’t help but feel this should be pretty decent but the standards at this particular JDW are so low the beer struggles to be on its best behaviour.

Cask, Hoylake Lights. Dark Ruby colour. Some hints of raisin, damson and hazelnut in the aroma. Malty fruit flavour with some bitterness. Quite enjoyable.