Old Hooky
Hook Norton Brewery in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England 🏴
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.44
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A beautifully balanced beer, fruity by nature, with a well-rounded body and the suggestive echo of Crystal Malt.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can't believe I've never rated this one before. This one goes back to my dim and distant youth in the Cotswolds when my father used to drink this stuff. This is a best bitter with a weight towards the sweet malt but with some bitter hops. As ever with this brewery there's a lot going on with this beer and I always have a soft spot for all their beers. Even the completely bonkers double stout.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Oct 2024
at 17:19
9/10
Tried
on 14 Oct 2023
at 18:07
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
500ml bottle from RusBeerShop in Moscow. Pours clear amber with a medium-sized off-white head. Aroma is fruity, caramel, biscuit, and toasted malt. Taste is light sweet, biscuity malt, fruit. Light to medium bodied. Light bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 May 2023
at 07:54
21/12/1978. YE OLDE REINDEER INN, 47 Parsons Street, BANBURY, Oxfordshire, England (HOOK NORTON)
Tried
on 14 Dec 2022
at 15:53
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
# 3373; 12/2022. Malty, woody, cherry aroma. Brilliant copper body; off-white head. Malty, cherry, wood, biscuity, toasty. Very good ESB. 0,5 l, bottle, supermarket, Towcester (Midlands, England).
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Dec 2022
at 19:25
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clear amber, creamy white head. Aroma of meadow, citrus. Taste of caramel, wirth, and a nice citrus and recin ending
Tried
on 01 Oct 2022
at 11:41
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
From cask at The Watch House in Lewisham with JFE 01.10.22. Clear pale mahogany amber. Dense and persistent off-white head and lacing. Fruity aroma and taste of pale malt, crystal malt, brittle and meadows. Good!
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Oct 2022
at 11:39
7/10
Pint from Wetherspoons, Eastbourne. Pours a hazy amber colour with a one finger off white head. Aromas of dark fruits, caramel and bread. Taste is bready with more fruity notes, toffee, caramel and biscuits. Nice lasting earthy hop bitterness on the finish. Nice lacing all the way down the glass. Very nice and well conditioned.
Tried
on 02 Sep 2022
at 13:28
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask: Poured a dark coppery with a cream beige head. Aroma is caramel and malts. Taste is earthy, caramel, light bitter, malty.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Dec 2021
at 13:34
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at The Gordon Highlander. It pours reddish - amber with a thick, fluffy beige - white head. The aroma is soft, sweet, brown bread, digestive biscuit, toffee, fudge and rivita. The taste is dry, bitter - sweet, toffee, caramel, digestive biscuits, brown bread, wood, twig, earth, dry grass and spice with a dry finish. Average body and fine, pillowy carbonation. Rounded and easy going.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Nov 2021
at 11:31