Hook Norton Brewery Haymaker

Haymaker
(has 2 batches)

 

Hook Norton Brewery in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Pale Ale - Classic English Regular
Score
6.26
ABV: 5.0% IBU: - Ticks (all batches): 109
A strong pale ale of distinctive taste. Plenty of Goldings hops give it something extra. Like sunshine dancing on your tongue.

Hops: Fuggles, Goldings, Challenger, more Goldings
Malts: Pale, Caramalt, Enzymic
 

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7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask at the Old Manor (JDW), Bracknell. Amber with a tight cream head; aroma of autumn fruit; full bodied with a sweet fruit flavour, with some rich, buttery, bicuity malts; the finish has caramel and some light English hops.
Tried from Cask on 25 Aug 2011 at 12:48

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
An orange-brown beer with a quite weak and white head. Aroma is interesting, maltyness, toffee, chocolate and tobacco. Taste is malty, grass, toffee and hint of tobaccos and hint of citrusfruits. The end is quite dry with herbal bitterness. Medium bodied, smooth and nice to drink. Interesting flavours, definedly this beer would need another tasting before last judgement. The bottle is propably quite old. Now with more fresh bottle (27.06.2013, BBE 17.02.2014; the points are the same) the hops are more dominating and overally more sharp touch.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Aug 2011 at 11:34

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
(bottle) Clear, golden colour with a medium-sized, slightly off-white foamy head. Citrus-fruity and herbal-minty hoppy aroma with mildly nutty notes and a tinge of caramel. Sweet-bitter flavour, light to medium bodied with a soft carbonation. Cara-malty and slightly nutty taste with fruity noble hops; rounded malty, slightly fruity and spicy hoppy finish. A well-crafted Ale. 10.XII.10
Tried from Bottle on 10 Dec 2010 at 15:02

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Drucken på Pickwick på Maltes tipsrunsa 2010. Åt strong ale hållet, maltig, men inte för söt, relativt liten beska och humlenärvaro.
Tried on 06 Jun 2010 at 12:09

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottled. Goldeny amber colour with mediumsized white creamy head. Aroma is bready malts along with some slight notes of floral and grassy hops. Flavour is bready malts, floral hops, some grassyness as well as herbs and some earthy notes. Quite bitter grassy finish.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Mar 2010 at 07:42

5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
[Bottle at the Good Food Show, NEC, Birmingham] Pale amber, slight white head, moderate fizz. Grass, wheat chaff and honey with a slight bitterness in the finish. A bit oily and rather bland.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Nov 2009 at 15:08

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Golden brown with excellent beige head. Tangy malty aroma. Medium body, light carbonation. Malty with a pleasant bitter finish. Well balanced, easy drinking but unexceptional beer.
Tried on 10 Oct 2009 at 03:34

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle from Centurion Vintners, Stroud. Deep gold with a billowy white head. Sweet, doughy malt aroma with grassy hops. Flavours of barley sugar, apricots, some earthy hops and a moderately bitter finish. Very good.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Sep 2009 at 03:02

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Cask @ Bon Accord. Golden colour, off-white head. Aroma is slightly sweet, malty, some bread, smooth. Flavour is malty, hint of hops. A bit bland.
Tried from Cask on 03 Aug 2009 at 05:40

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden yellow to orange with a fully diminished white head. Aroma is mild spiced and bitter. Spiced and malty base flavour with mild spice note and bitterness coming out of this. Smooth fruity and bitter dry finish.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Sep 2008 at 07:51