Hobgoblin
Hobgoblin is a British beer brand that grew out of Wychwood Brewery in Witney, Oxfordshire. The company started in 1983 on part of the old Clinch's Eagle site and took the Wychwood name in 1990, after the ancient forest that borders the town. Its dark ruby ale became the flagship and eventually gave the whole range its name. The Witney site closed in November 2023. The brand now belongs to Carlsberg Britvic, and the beers are produced elsewhere within the group's network. The current line-up runs from a golden ale and two IPAs to an amber, a stout and the stronger King Goblin.
Beers by Hobgoblin
8 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Hobgoblin brew a broad range across 6 style families.
Across these 8 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Hobgoblin IPA
Their beers place in the Top 20% of the catalogue on average, across 8 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About Hobgoblin
Hobgoblin is a British beer brand that grew out of Wychwood Brewery in Witney, Oxfordshire. The company started in 1983 on part of the old Clinch's Eagle site and took the Wychwood name in 1990, after the ancient forest that borders the town. Its dark ruby ale became the flagship and eventually gave the whole range its name. The Witney site closed in November 2023. The brand now belongs to Carlsberg Britvic, and the beers are produced elsewhere within the group's network. The current line-up runs from a golden ale and two IPAs to an amber, a stout and the stronger King Goblin.
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