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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6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2017
at 19:24
6/10
Tried
on 03 Apr 2017
at 11:24
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at home in London - sourced via Ocado. Pours totally clear burnished gold with a creamy, mostly white head. The aroma holds lightly toasted pale bread, a little citrus peel, faint leafy hops. Light-medium sweet flavour with basic bready malts, hints of toasted sugars, vague orange, mellow leafy bitterness. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Sweet finish, with lightly toasted bread, low bitterness. It doesn’t set the world alight, but it drinks OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2017
at 15:40
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Bottle) Pours clear amber brown with good beige head. Nice aroma - herbal / seaweed / tea and some caramel notes. Medium body, good carbonation. Foretaste is a nice mix of caramel and fruity notes. The fruity notes are steadily replaced by a nice hoppy bitterness. Nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jan 2017
at 07:06
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle. Pours clear amber with a one-finger off-white head. Aroma: malty, caramel, fruit. Taste: sweet fruity malt, caramel/toffee, citrus, some bitterness but the finish is actually sweet. Medium-full body, smooth mouthfeel, good carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2017
at 18:53
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
0.5l bottle. Hazy deep orange body, thin white head. Aroma of caramel, biscuit, orange zest and floral hops. Taste of biscuit, orange zest, yeast, caramel and floral hops. Nice English ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2016
at 11:11
6.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Cunning Man, Burghfield, Berks. Murky orange-brown, small white head. Toffee and caramel are the main flavours here, with fruit in the background (apple and pear?) and a mild earthy bitterness in the finish. On the sweet side. Certainly better than the pasteurised-to-death bottled version; unremarkable but actually pretty drinkable.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Aug 2016
at 17:13
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Backlog. From bottle at Mi2 at Cardinal 08.04.15. Dark golden to pale copper. Some bitterness and malt sweetness in aroma. Neutral, but slightly fruity taste. Low bitterness. Medium carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2015
at 18:51
6/10
Tried
on 22 Oct 2015
at 21:31
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Leicht trübes orange goldenes Bier mit einer geringen weißen Schaumkrone. Geruch sehr hopfig, getreidig, zitronig. Geschmack trocken hopfig, getreidig, grasig, etwas Karamell.
Tried
on 11 Oct 2015
at 09:34