So I visited the wychwood brewery...

[rich27500]

and the tour guide was telling us the ratio of grains in hobgoblin is roughly 80% crystal 20% chocolate and a little bit of pale malt. Thinking I misheard I checked and he repeated those ratios. Having confessed to homebrewing he then declared details like hops a 'trade secret'. Never been a fan of their beers but tried some king goblin and that's ok. They have a new apple flavoured beer coming out tomorrow which we also tried but I really don't like.

 

[graysalchemy]

The tour guide obviously didn't know anything about brewing then or maths for that matter. Probably why they employed him no chance of him giving away any trade secrets :lol:

 

[adomant]

clearly not the grain bill, I have tried to do this before - I think the aroma hop is styrian from taste, but I think they have access to the original strain of it, imo styrian is not what it once was

 

[Devonhomebrew]

might be 80% pale 20% crstal and a bit of chocolate as thats what the clone recipe says

 

[rich27500]

Exactly what I said but the geezer was adamant. IMHO that grain bill would make an awful beer.

 

[jamesb]

Exactly what I said but the geezer was adamant. IMHO that grain bill would make an awful beer.

Could well be true then...

 

[artyb]

i did the wychwood tour last year was good,
although the guy who took us round was not a brewer,
he worked elsewhere and did the tours at the weekend,
he had been doing tem for around 5 yrs and did a lot of events and stuf with the brewery..

the king goblin was a great tastin beer.. :party:

 

[adomant]

could not possibly be 20% chocolate, for many reasons colour, taste