Hooky Gold
Hook Norton Brewery in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England 🏴
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.26
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A very pale, crisp beer, with a hoppy character. A fruity aroma and a pleasant, light taste.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Big offwhite head. Yellow body with light carbonation. Strawy orangey aroma with strawy plastic notes. Dry-sweetish perfumy orangey strawy taste with resiny notes. MId-bodied. Mild mouthfeel. Dry-sweet strawy resiny orangey aftertaste with floral notes. Nice, but the bitterness is a bit harsh. (0.5l bottle, Sainsbury’s, London.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2010
at 12:55
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
500 ml bottle purchased at The Wine and Cheese Place in St Louis, Missouri. Pour is a hazed straw golden with a one inch foamy white head. Aroma is citrus herbal hops, along with toasty malt. Subdued nose, but nice. Taste is more of sharp malt resin, along with the citrus herbal of the nose. There is also a decent blast of floral which adds some character. As it warms, the malt really comes out - toasty, bready, almost even a caraway rye flavor. Much nicer. The aftertaste has sort of a dusty earthy thing going on. Mild flavor, easy to drink. Palate is medium to thin, lower level of carbonation, coats the mouth some. As mentioned, went down easy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Sep 2010
at 15:18
4.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Clear yellow in colour with a whispy white head. Aroma is grassy with hints of tea. Taste is slightly sweet with grassy hops slightly watery.
Tried
on 25 Sep 2010
at 13:28
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml Bottle - Golden in colour. A hint of grapefruit is noticeable in the aroma, along with some peach notes. Slightly hoppy taste with tea and grapefruit detected.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2010
at 08:36
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask @ The State. Light golden colour, white head. Aroma is hoppy, fruity, with a bit of malts. Flavour is soft malty and fairly hopped.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 May 2010
at 11:49
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
50cl bottle. Poured pale golden color with a nice white head, some lacing. Aroma is citrusy and fruity. Flavor is softly fruity, nicely hopped. Dry aftertaste, quite refreshing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2010
at 09:46
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 500ml.Clear medium amber color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, malty, light hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration, malty. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100508]
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2010
at 11:28
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Clear amber with a beige head. Malty aroma with fruits and hops. Flavour had toasted malt, caramel and fruity hops. Finished dry and slightly bitter.
Tried
on 09 May 2010
at 01:45
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Golden beer with weak and white head. Aroma is refreshning and balanced, tropical fruits, grapefruits, some toffee and pine needles. Flavour is similar than aroma, however, quite dry, tropical fruits, biscuits, nicely medium bitterness and some mustyness in the end. Quite easy and light to drink with medium carbonation. Succesfully, quite light beer together with american style hoppiness brings more fruitfull freshness, I recommend this beer.
Tried
from Can
on 08 May 2010
at 10:19
6.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled (K-Kamppi, BB 12/2010)
Golden color, decent cloudy white head, lace. Dry yeasty, zesty and lemon hoppy nose. Light to medium bodied. Zesty, lemony flavor. Lingering citrusy hoppyness in the aftertaste. Reasonably tasty for being 4.2% only, but maybe a bit too one-dimensional.
Golden color, decent cloudy white head, lace. Dry yeasty, zesty and lemon hoppy nose. Light to medium bodied. Zesty, lemony flavor. Lingering citrusy hoppyness in the aftertaste. Reasonably tasty for being 4.2% only, but maybe a bit too one-dimensional.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2010
at 00:04