^ "Hatherwood The Golden Goose (Marston's 2013 - 2017)".^ King Goblin Beer – Beer profile at .uk.Archived from the original on 19 March 2012. ^ "Hobgoblin helps the UK and USA's special relationship".Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. ^ "Special relationship cemented over Hobgoblin".Archived from the original on 2 June 2015. ^ "Marston's boosted by Hobgoblin and Halloween".Using the name Hatherwood Brewery, Wychwood brews beers exclusively for the supermarket Lidl. The Brakspear beers are still brewed in Witney by Wychwood and not in Henley, where the original brewery site has been converted into a boutique hotel. There is only one brewhouse at Witney but two separate fermenting rooms for the separate Wychwood and Brakspear beers. The new Brakspear brewery was integrated into an expansion of the Wychwood plant, and includes parts of the copper (boiling vessel), as well as some of the fermenting vessels which themselves had been refurbished at Henley. Wychwood took over the brewing of the newly acquired Brakspear beers in October 2002. To date it is available bottled in Asda, Sainsburys, Morrisons and Tesco supermarkets, Draeger's supermarkets in the US, in "Broken English" shops in Berlin, and on draught during "real ale" festivals at Wetherspoons pubs. King Goblin, essentially a stronger and more flavourful variety of Hobgoblin, is a 6.6% abv "Special Reserve" ale. The President remarked that he would drink his beer chilled, as opposed to the optimal room temperature (15.5 ☌/59.9 ☏) at which strong ale should be drunk, prompting Wychwood to create a T-shirt in their online store reading "What's the matter Obama, afraid you might taste something?". In return Obama gave Cameron 24 bottles of Goose Island beer, from Goose Island Brewery. It was the first bottled beer in the UK to feature an illustrated label, as opposed to a simple text-based one, and it is currently the 2nd best-selling bottled ale in the UK.ĭuring a meeting at the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit, Prime Minister David Cameron and President Barack Obama gave each other bottles of beer from their respective home towns/cities, with Cameron presenting Obama with twelve bottles of Hobgoblin, which is brewed in his Witney constituency. Jeremy Moss, Wychwood's head brewer, describes the drink as "full bodied and well balanced with a chocolate toffee malt flavour, moderate bitterness and a distinctive fruity character with a ruby red glow". It is 5.2% abv in bottles, 4.5% in cans and 4.5% (previously 5.0%, and before that 5.6%, and originally 6.5%) on cask, and is described by Wychwood as a "Ruby beer". Hobgoblin is the best-known and most popular beer brewed at Wychwood Brewery and was created by Chris Moss. Beers Ī bottle of Circle Master beer, before its re-branding as Scarecrow Hobgoblin Marston's then bought Refresh and Wychwood Brewery outright in 2008. The brewery was taken over in 2002 by Refresh UK, a subsidiary of Marston's. In 1994 the brewery was moved back to the site taking on more of the old site. In 1990, the Eagle was renamed the Wychwood Brewery after the ancient Wychwood Forest which borders Witney, at the same time the brewery moved to the Two Rivers Industrial estate still in Witney. Chris Moss took his interest in exchange for a debt from Paddy and took over after Paddy Kenny moved away. In 1983, part of the original Clinch's Eagle Brewery site was rented by Paddy Kenny, but named the brewing company Kenny Brewery. In 1961, Courage bought Clinch's for its pub estate and closed down the brewery. The brewery is sited at the old Eagle Maltings, built in 1841 to malt barley for Clinch's brewery which had an estate of seventy-one pubs in Southern England. Hobgoblin being enjoyed by Prime Minister David Cameron with President Barack Obama at the G20 Summit in Toronto 2010 The brewery is known for its character-based label artwork, inspired by the myths and legends surrounding the ancient Wychwood Forest. Wychwood filtered and bottled beers are exported all over the world, including North America, Germany, Sweden, France, Australia, Russia, Japan, Israel and Singapore.
Wychwood Brewery produces around 50,000 barrels (8,200,000 litres) of cask ale each year, and is the United Kingdom's largest brewer of organic ales. The company's flagship brand is Hobgoblin, a 5.2% abv brown ale. Wychwood Brewery is a brewery in Witney, Oxfordshire, England, owned by Marston's.