Hobsons Brewery Reviews

imdownthepub	3.1 Hobsons Cleobury Springs Cask conditioned at the Bailey Head, Oswestry, Shrops. Hazy gold with white head. This proved to be a sweet, caramelised beer from the off. Quite thinnish, some leafy citrus, some herbal notes. It's okay. Thursday, April 25, 2024
jmgreenuk	3.3 Hobsons Spring Break Cask at The Wellington, Birmingham. Poured a crystal clear golden colour with a lasting frothy white head. The aroma is malt and citrus fruits. The flavour is moderate sweet, light bitter, with a smooth, somewhat light, fresh, light toffee, juicy citrus, light herbal, light hop bitter palate. Medium to light bodied with soft carbonation. Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Cheeseboard	3.3 Hobsons Red 29 Cask half at Post Office Vaults, Brum. Pours amber ruby with beige foam. Malt, caramel, light toffee, hedgerow berries. Light to moderate sweet & bitter. Medium body with soft carbonation. Fair. Sunday, February 25, 2024
BlackHaddock	3.2 Hobsons ResOATlution Hand-pulled half-pint in The Crown Inn, Oakengates on Sunday afternoon, 4th February 2024. Black bodied, tanned topping. Oat like nose and taste, over roasted/toasted Oats to be exact. Dry with a semi-bitter finish. Sunday, February 4, 2024
ladnewton	3.7 Hobsons Twisted Spire Cask at the Lamp Tavern, Birmingham on 29th December 2023. Crystal clear amber with white foam and plenty of lacing. A biscuit malt and sweet, tangy fruitiness from aroma through to finish. Medium bodied with an engaging texture. Sunday, December 31, 2023
Salian	3.1 Hobsons Best Bitter Amber pour, tight, white head. Bready and hoppy aroma, raisin and nuts in the flavour. Dry, bitter to finish. Sunday, December 31, 2023
Salian	3.3 Hobsons Twisted Spire Clear golden pour, thick white head. Light citrus, some nice maltiness, a slightly dry finish. Not bad. Sunday, December 31, 2023
imdownthepub	3.2 Hobsons Old Spiced Henry Cask conditioned at the Post Office Vaults, Birmingham. Copper with off white head. Well the certainly is a hefty level of spicing in this, cinnamon and nutmeg to the fore, curry leaf. It's quite bitter and dry through the beer. It's okay. Saturday, December 30, 2023
WingmanWillis	3.3 Hobsons Postmans Knock Tuesday, December 26, 2023
vinivini	3.1 Hobsons Shropshire Stout As Craft Masters Stout at 4.3% ABV. Appearance: Opaque deep brown with a large dcent head. Aroma and taste: Roast, choclate, burnt bread, floral hop. Dry. Hoppy. Mouth feel: Light plus body, lively carbonation. Overall: OK. Friday, December 22, 2023
minutemat	3 Hobsons / Browar Błonie / Inne Beczki Free IPA 500ml bottle from Woodfield Stores. Pours a clear pale golden yellow, white head. Ok AF, no off notes, clean malt, just a decent serviceable, AF beer. Thursday, December 7, 2023
oh6gdx	3.5 Hobsons Shropshire Stout Bottle (from KCM Päivölä, Seinäjoki). Pitch black colour with a small beigeish brown head. Aroma is toasted, roasted, mild sweet malts, liquorice and some slight chocolaty tones. Flavour is quite similar to the aroma Also quite big on the hops, but not disturbingly much. Thursday, November 23, 2023
Martinsh	3.1 Hobsons Postman's Plum Porter Bottle shared at Latvian Independence Day celebration at Ebenezers, Crewe – thanks @BlackHaddock. [ Yes I know Shropshire isn’t in Latvia !] Pours a dark reddish-brown with mnimal off-white head. Aroma is mainly roasted malts with just a trace of plums. Much the same in the mouth, though the plums are a bit more evident here. There’s also a medicinal hint of balsam. This is reasonable but could have done with a bit more oomph and plums ! Sunday, November 19, 2023
reidyboy	3.4 Hobsons Mild [March 2022] Dark brown with a frothy tan head and a malty and slightly nutty aroma. The malt prevails in the taste, along with a little more nuttiness, hints of chocolate coming through with a nice softly bitter finish, all just a little thin really Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Thomas_W1	3.2 Hobsons Manor Ale Flasche 0,5l: Bernstein, dezente Trübung, mäßig stabiler mittelporiger Schaum; fruchtige + kräftig würzige Nase, leichte malzig-würzige Süße, trockene Zitrusnoten, Zitronenabrieb, trockene florale Hopfenaromen,kräftig Malz, Karamell, leichte Röstaromen, nussig, malzig-würzige Bitterkeit; fruchtiger + sehr würziger Körper, kräftige trockene Hopfennoten, floral/grasig, trockene Zitrusnoten, Röstaromen, Röstmalz, Getreide, cremig, mittlere Kohlensäure, nussig, etwas Kaffee, Muckefuck; würzig-trockener Nachgang Friday, October 27, 2023
SilkTork	3.5 Hobsons Town Crier Oct 2023. 500ml dark bottle, unfiltered, from Amazon. Fresh, clean, subtle, gentle, tasty. I like this, though I'm not quite seeing what got me so excited back in 2004. Nice beer. And it is a classic best bitter. I think I'd just like a little more oomph in the malt. [3.0] Sept 2004. Bright bottled at Peterborough Festival - drunk 9 days later. Excellent condition. I love this beer. Fresh, flowery, fragrant and packed with honey dripping sweetness. Mmmm - I could sink a few of these. A classic best bitter of high quality. Yum! [4.0] Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Erzengel	3.5 Hobsons Old Henry Thanks Simon. Smooth mild malty beginning. Hints of grain, nice Ale characteristics. Soft with a light malty back. Slightly sweetish, round with a subtle bitterness. Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Erzengel	3.2 Hobsons Manor Ale Thanks Simon. Fruity malty nose. Dry bitter, grainy. Very bitter neutral with a grainy back. Crisp bitter, a bit watery, sessionable with a bitter finish. Sunday, October 15, 2023
dragnet101	3.3 Hobsons Twisted Spire Clear bottle from Melbicks Garden Centre, Coleshill. Clear light gold with brief white slightly fizzy top. No skunking on aroma. Has a typical English floral hop and light citrus note, only a touch fusty. Taste of orange and lemon rind, light breads, pepper. Decent building bitterness in the finish. Light and refreshing. Saturday, October 7, 2023
Mr_Pink_152	3.3 Hobsons Dirty Gertie Bottle from Moonshire and Fuggles, Ironbridge. Clear golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are light fruity and bold citrus. Medium body. Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Mr_Pink_152	3.4 Hobsons Shropshire Stout Bottle from Moonshire and Fuggles, Ironbridge. As Dhustone. Black colour with a tan head. Aroma and taste are roasted bitter and slight coffee. Medium body. Monday, September 25, 2023
Mr_Pink_152	2.8 Hobsons Twisted Spire Bottle from Moonshire and Fuggles, ironbridge. Clear golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste zesty and crisp citrus lemon. Slight dry. Light body. Monday, September 25, 2023
hauxe	3.7 *Hobsons Shropstr** Pale gold with a frothy, white head. Aroma is floral and grassy with a bit of dough and lemon peel. Taste is mildly bitter. Faintly tart undertones at the finish that stay just underneath. Lightish body, crisp, clean finish. Pleasant. Sunday, September 17, 2023
MaltyVonHop	3.9 Hobsons Old Prickly Hobson's Old Prickly Snuffly Hedge Grog 4.2%. Cloudy amber, citrus, toffee aroma, medium bodied, pale malt, caramel, oranges, spices. Lovely Best from Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sunday, September 17, 2023
oh6gdx	3.2 Hobsons Old Prickly Bottled. Amber colour, small foamy white head, which stays for a while. Aroma is floral, wooden, some bready and mild caramel malts. Flavour has the same elements as the aroma, but also some slight toasted and biscuity notes to it. Saturday, September 16, 2023
rhosddured	4 Hobsons Dirty Gertie Thursday, September 14, 2023
rhosddured	3 Hobsons Mad As Hops Wednesday, September 13, 2023
rhosddured	2 *Hobsons Shropstr** Wednesday, September 13, 2023
rhosddured	2 Hobsons Best Bitter Wednesday, September 13, 2023
BlackHaddock	2.3 Hobsons Lighten Up Gravity fed third of a pint, Bridgnorth CAMRA Beer Festival, 8th September 2023. Very pale, clean and clear with a weak white wisp on top. Sadly this under performed on all fronts, next to no hoppiness and forget about any maltiness too. It's poor to be honest. Saturday, September 9, 2023
minutemat	2 Hobsons Lighten Up Cask @ Cromwell's Tap House. Pours a clear gold, white head. Straw, mild floral hints but otherwise fairly bland. No US hop notes coming through at all. Very mild flavour profile as far removed from an American Pale Ale as it's possible to be. Tastes like a weak cask bitter. Monday, August 21, 2023
Grumbo	2.9 Hobsons Dirty Gertie 20/8/2023. Bottle shared by The Blackhaddock. Pours clear bright gold with a small frothy white head. Aroma of citrus, grapefruit, herb, straw, yeast, sweet stewed fruits. Moderate sweetness, medium developing bitterness. Moderate body, slightly watery, average carbonation. Nice long bitter finish improved it. Sunday, August 20, 2023
Alengrin	3.4 Hobsons The Speakeasy Hoppy pale ale by Hobsons in Shropshire southwest of Birmingham, apparently a one-off created for a local storytelling festival - many thanks to my girlfriend Goedele for bringing this bottle over from England, not by coincidence as her sister Veerle is indeed a professional storyteller. Medium thick, tooth-like lacing, egg-white, tiny-bubbled, partially breaking but generally stable head; crystal clear warm yellow-golden robe with thin strings of disparate sparkling rising up throughout the beer. Peculiar, notably herbaceous aroma of spicy rye bread (though containing wheat rather than rye), pine resin (Columbus!), lavender oil (very strong Lubelski hops indeed!), cheese spread, spruce tips, bee wax, raw quince, margarine, juniper berries, parsley, yellow grapefruit peel, tonic water, hints of freshly cut hogweed, unripe apricot, moist white pepper, thyme. Clean, dryish onset, some subdued fruitiness as in hard pear or unripe peach but hardly any sweetness at all, minerally carbonation (a bit stingy at first), slick and smooth, almost a bit buttery mouthfeel; slender white-bready and grainy malt backbone soon aromatized by very piney (Columbus) and dried lavender-like (Lubelski) hops, with further accents of parsley, raw parsnip, dried ginger and thyme completing the picture, providing a long, resinous bitterness which becomes a bit rooty in the end, yet manages to remain in balance with the 'raw' graininess of the malts. Feels like a piney version of a classic English style golden ale rather than an APA - but I guess the APA moniker, implying the use of New World hops, is broad enough to accommodate even this unusual interpretation. Both hop varieties are very outspoken and very clear here, exhibiting their respective features in a very pure and pronounced way, undisturbed by any malt or ester frivolity. Clean, ultimately simple but to the point and technically correct, quenching and pleasant to drink, but you will really have to like pine resin and lavender effects. Saturday, August 19, 2023
BlackHaddock	3.3 Hobsons Dirty Gertie 500ml bottle (minus a Panda for Grumbo): BBE July 2024. Drank on the afternoon of 11th August 2023. Clear golden pour until the sediment arrived at the bottom of the bottle and I was joined by some sediment and some floating 'grist', it did say it was bottle conditioned, so it was my fault it's cloudy! Anyway it's fairy bitter in nature and no citrus fruits were damaged in brewing this. Friday, August 11, 2023
BlackHaddock	3 Hobsons Elderpower Hand-pulled half-pint in Cherry Reds, Brum on 5th August 2023. The last pub of the Stag Do for AndyTF2. Clean and clear old gold body, white affair on top. Slight Elderflower/floral nose and flavour, all subtle though. In fact the whole beer was subtle in all aspects for me. Sunday, August 6, 2023
harrisoni	3.2 Hobsons Mad As Hops Cask gravity at K&ES 2023. Hazy amber colour thin white head. Fruity ale yeast aroma. Some white stone fruit flavour peaches etc. Nectarine. Slightly earthy. Ok. Friday, June 16, 2023
deanso	3.2 Hobsons Pass The Smile 50cl bottle from Factory Foods & More Thick white head. Hazy golden pour. light bitterness Tuesday, June 13, 2023
tommann	3.4 Hobsons Mad As Hops Cask at the Duke William, Stourbridge. Pours dark gold with a medium head. Aroma is overripe mango and tinned pineapple. Taste has sherbet and tinned pineapple. Friday, June 9, 2023
minutemat	3.5 Hobsons Evolution Keg @ Cromwell's Tap House. Clear gold pour with a white head. Gentle, smooth opal fruit aroma. Quite a nicely balanced sweetness against a pale malt backdrop, light bitterness.. not bad.. Tuesday, June 6, 2023
chimayx	2.6 Hobsons Shropshire Stout Friday, June 2, 2023
BeerViking	3.2 Hobsons Dirty Gertie Gravity cask at the 2023 Kingston Beer Festival. Pale amber with a light haze and a tangy hoppy nose with notes of bitter orange, earthy malts, and a touch of boiled veg. Malty and full bodied, bitter and drying, this could be a very good cask Anglo-West Coast IPA - except there's that unwelcome touch of veg again. Friday, May 19, 2023
dragnet101	3.4 Hobsons Manor Ale Bottle from Melbicks Garden Centre, Coleshill. Clear light amber with small white top. Bready and earthy aroma with sweet toffee. Taste is somewhat nutty, biscuit, light toast, a touch of fruit and herb in the background. Near medium bodied, drying. Somewhat rich but some good flavours going on. Thursday, May 11, 2023
chimayx	2.6 Hobsons Twisted Spire Tuesday, May 9, 2023
minutemat	3.4 Hobsons Dirty Gertie Cask @ The Welly with jmgreenuk and richthevillan. Clear gold pour with a good white collar. Malty nose. Smooth malt grain on initial sip with light floral glimpses revealed in due course, moderate hop bitterness. Fine, simplistic, expected a bit more characterful hops for a 30th anniversary beer. Saturday, April 29, 2023
jmgreenuk	3.4 Hobsons Dirty Gertie Cask at The Wellington, Birmingham. Poured a clear golden colour with a lasting frothy white head. The aroma is malt, yeast, light floral hops. The flavour is over moderate bitter, with a smooth, rich, herbal, floral, earthy, woody hop bitter palate and a long bitter finish. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Monday, April 24, 2023
jmgreenuk	3.5 *Hobsons Shropstr** 500ml bottle from Becketts Farm Shop, Wythall. Poured a clear yellow golden colour with a mostly lasting frothy white head. The aroma is grainy malt, light citrus. The flavour is moderate bitter, light sweet, with a smooth, malt, lime citrus, big woody hop bitter palate and a long bitter finish. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Very moreish. Friday, April 21, 2023
simontomlinson	3.2 Hobsons Manor Ale Brilliant white foamy head in a well carbonated clear amber coloured body. Bitter, ashtray & malt aroma. Medium bodied, foamy sharp & cloying. Malt, berry, pithy & grapefruit tastes with a long bitter finish. Great Bitter. Wednesday, April 19, 2023
ladnewton	4.2 Hobsons Mad As Hops Cask at the Plough, Worcester on 1st April 2023. Golden amber with shallow off-white foam and full lacing. Hoppy aroma and liquid pass, and a satisfyingly bitter finish. Full bodied with a zingy mouthfeel. Superb. Thursday, April 6, 2023
SamVimes21	3.6 Hobsons Mad As Hops Wednesday, April 5, 2023
GuideDogSaint	3.1 Hobsons Mad As Hops Cask pint at the Tredegar Arms. Pours hazy golden with a white head. Aroma of malt and fruit. Fruity musty taste. Bitter finish. Sunday, April 2, 2023