Pick Me Up
Hook Norton Brewery in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England 🏴
Mild - Dark Special|
Score
6.54
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For Wetherspoon’s beer festival October 2025
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allmyvinyl (21071) reviewed Pick Me Up from Hook Norton Brewery 4 months ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Still hanging on from the 2025 beer fest. Maybe 12th for me? Cask up the White Lady pours clear mahogany with a 1cm tight beige head. Looks good! Aromas of light chocolate and nuts. Tasty is dusty cocoa and light dried fruit. Dry, slightly thin finish.
Biruski (4902) reviewed Pick Me Up from Hook Norton Brewery 4 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Deep brown with a tan head. Malty but very watered down, tangy fruits, a bit of earth. Medium thin body. Mid.
Deanso (15673) reviewed Pick Me Up from Hook Norton Brewery 4 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Half a pint on cask at the red lion jdw.
Medium creamy beige head. Clear almost black pour. Light chocolate
gave a cheers!
Olut (21769) reviewed Pick Me Up from Hook Norton Brewery 4 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 5.5
Wetherspoon 2025 Autumn Beer Festival. Ale#17 of 26 untried possibilities at the fest. Very dark reddish-brown coloured. Fairly flavourless dark malts, perhaps too 'mild' in most respects.
Fergus (31329) reviewed Pick Me Up from Hook Norton Brewery 4 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Cask at the moon under water Watford Jdw. A clear mahogany brown black coloured pour with a lasting light tan head. Aroma is semi sweet, tangy dark fruit, rye bread, some burnt toast, woodland walk. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, nutty layered dark malts, hint of smoke, fruit and nut, tangy fruits. Palate is semi sweet, little thin, mellow cask condition. Decent mild.
LazyPyro (9998) reviewed Pick Me Up from Hook Norton Brewery 4 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at Moon Under Water, Cheltenham. Dark brown with a beige head. Aroma is malty, dark fruits, slightly nutty. Taste is malty, sweet, dark/berry fruit, slightly nutty and chocolatey, light bitterness. Light bodied, thin. Just okay.
jimgreen (21510) reviewed Pick Me Up from Hook Norton Brewery 4 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Cask at the Cornfield Garage, Eastbourne. Poured a clear almost black colour with a thin, broken, off-white head. The aroma is roasty, malt, nutty. The flavour is light bitter, with a light, watery, herbal, light nutty, light hop bitter palate. Light bodied with flat carbonation. A poor example of the style.
Martinsh (3610) reviewed Pick Me Up from Hook Norton Brewery 4 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5.5
Cask at Paramount, Manchester. Pours a dark (almost very dark) reddish-brown with a small foamy cream head and good lacing. There’s malts and berry fruits in the aroma plus some herbal hints. In the mouth it is quite sweet but with a little underlying bitterness and a somewhat watery texture. Flavour of malts and hedgerow fruits with hints of cola coming later. Finish is slightly dry and fruity. This is reasonable but fairly nondescript.
Grumbo (24387) reviewed Pick Me Up from Hook Norton Brewery 4 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
7/10/2025. Cask at wetherspoon beer festival, at the Corn Exchange, Bury St Edmunds. Pours fine. Aroma is mild, malty, chocolate, dark fruit, hedgerow, slightly nutty and flowery. Quite weak and very watery. Drying bitter finish. Aroma/look is fine and I like a mild but this is lacking even allowing for its abv.
berkshirejohn (10223) reviewed Pick Me Up from Hook Norton Brewery 4 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
[Cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading.] A tawny coloured pour with a red glint and a tight beige head; earthy malt aroma; smooth malty taste with a fresh leafy bitterness; and a clean earthy finish. A pleasant Mild.