Loddon Oarsome

Brewed by Loddon
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Reading, England

Serve in English pint

Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm. Pours out in a clear reddish amber colour with a rich creamy off-white head. Toasted grains, baked red apples and roasted nuts in the aroma. Medium-bodied with notes of fudge, pears and leaves. Rather bitter finish of licorice-roots, raisins and nut-shells. Charming autumn beer, this.

Pint from the Manor in Bracknell. Pleasant, slightly hoppy aroma. Dark amber with a reasonable head. A good beer, and has something about it, tastes a bit meaty!

Cask, gravity, Wantage Beer Festival 19.11.10 Pours amber with a tiny white smattering of bubbles. Some bitterness initially, bit of woodiness & cream and vanilla. Bitter in the mouth, its solid stuff, touch of nuttiness towards end. A7 A4 T7 P4 Ov14 3.6

Cask. Ambery brown colour with mediumsized off-white head. Aroma is mildly nutty, wooden, slightly grassy and floral. Flavour is floral hops, some mild wooden and grassy notes as well as quite malty and also some nuttyness. Quite pleasantly balanced.

Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Almost clear nut brown. Fruity hay aroma. Sweet, medium bodied with well rounded mouthfeel. Fruity and quite hoppy with hay and salt leading to a long resiny bitter finish

Cask at the Monks Retreat (JDW), Reading. Amber with a dense cream head; aroma of toasted grain and light fruit; smooth and slightly prickly in the mouth with autumn fruit flavours and a touch of Garibaldi biscuit; refined, dry, bitter, finish. A very pleasing bitter.

Gravity Cask @ Guide Dog Beer Festival. Red brown. Slightly toasty with toffeeish loddon malts but without usual balancing hoppiness. Hoppiness doesnt quite match to the description.