The fantasy world focused Wychwood Brewery brings us this 'ruby beer' called Hobgoblin. I'm not entirely sure what a 'ruby beer' is, maybe a red ale? The label carries a rather mischievious looking character holding an axe on it. The axe carries 5 damage points. I'm kinda guessing these guys are aiming at the nerd market with the way they label their product, but hey at least it's original.
The beer itself is very dark in colour, a deep ruby red and does actually look quite impressive. Maybe it's an amber ale? I'm guessing so as there are tones of chocolate and toffe through the beer, but the feel to it is much lighter than a normal amber ale. I found this with their blonde beer, they are clean but are very thin on texture.
It's a little bit disappointing because the chocolate/toffee/malt flavours aren't half bad, but they don't have a lot of length and by the end you just get a slab of bitterness.
All in all, a cheap beer trying to pull of just a bit too much.
5/10
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