Hook Norton Brewery Old Hooky

Old Hooky

 

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

  Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular
Score
6.44
ABV: 4.6% IBU: - Ticks: 171
A beautifully balanced beer, fruity by nature, with a well-rounded body and the suggestive echo of Crystal Malt.
 

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Tried on 14 Oct 2023 at 18:07


7.8
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
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
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
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

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
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
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


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6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

pint on cask at the Horseshoe JDW.
Thick creamy white head. Clear amber pour. Light bitterness. Easy drinking

Tried from Cask at Horseshoe (JDW) on 02 Sep 2021 at 07:43