Hawkstone IPA
Hawkstone in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England 🏴
IPA - Session Regular|
Score
6.77
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Using a combination of the finest, characterful hops we could find, Hawkstone IPA is a treat for the senses. With bursts of tropical and citrus, and richness from the malt, it's perfectly balanced with the hop bitterness that runs through
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7.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle on 15th May 2025 from Waitrose via Deliveroo. Pours an almost clear, coppery amber with shallow off-white foam. Nutty malts, leafy hoppiness and a pungent note in aroma. Grasses, rounded citrus and a hazelnut malt in-mouth. A complex finish comprising the aforesaid. Engaging mouthfeel and a medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Waitrose Supermarket (Various locations)
on 15 May 2025
at 22:46
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from the brewery whilst passing by and drunk at my 50th birthday bash - amongst many other things. The best way to describe the flavour is agricultural. Very agricultural. Not unpleasant, but you have to like agricultural flavours. Did I say it tastes agricultural?
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2025
at 19:15
6.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Large foamy white head on a very active clear amber coloured body.
Ashtray, citrus & malt aroma.
Medium bodied, foamy with a cloying back.
Berries, perfume, floral & biscuit tastes with a peppery sweet malt finish.
Nicely balanced.
Ashtray, citrus & malt aroma.
Medium bodied, foamy with a cloying back.
Berries, perfume, floral & biscuit tastes with a peppery sweet malt finish.
Nicely balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2025
at 21:16
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Keg at the Hawkstone taproom between Stow on The Wold and Bourton, 23/11/24. Clear golden topped with a lasting white head. Nose is mellow citric flesh, orange peel, melon, soft malts. Taste comprises grass, melon, lemon rind, tangerine, airy malts. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close dabbed with modest hop bitterness. Passable entry level kind of IPA.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Nov 2024
at 12:58
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keg, half-pint in Cromwells Taphouse, Shrewsbury on 24th May 2024. It was their Cider and Sausage Fest, but I had this as a palate cleanser before trying the ciders. Clean golden body, white crown. Decent enough blend with a slight citrus leaning and some sweetness creeping in from the malt content.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 May 2024
at 12:30
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
10th April 2024
Very near clear gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. Light smooth palate, very mildly dry, decent fine minerally carbonation. The malts are smooth and airy and have a distinct caramel streak. This would normally piss me off in an IPA but it works a treat here. The hops are nicely juicy, soft pine into a juicy rounded orange and mandarin citrus. Airy piney finish. Yeah, this is a decent beer, very drinkable. Never an IPA but whatever. Could defo session this.
Very near clear gold beer, small bubbly pale cream colour head. Light smooth palate, very mildly dry, decent fine minerally carbonation. The malts are smooth and airy and have a distinct caramel streak. This would normally piss me off in an IPA but it works a treat here. The hops are nicely juicy, soft pine into a juicy rounded orange and mandarin citrus. Airy piney finish. Yeah, this is a decent beer, very drinkable. Never an IPA but whatever. Could defo session this.
Tried
on 10 Apr 2024
at 18:34
