Tower Ale
Hook Norton Brewery in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England 🏴
Pale Ale - Classic English Regular|
Score
6.70
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Taste tradition with a modern twist. Brewer Andy Thomas said ‘We are very excited to be using Olicana in our special one-off 175 beer. We have used Olicana before and loved brewing with it for its tropical and floral notes. This variety in our eyes is on another level. We’ve combined it with Goldings, the UK’s oldest variety and Fuggles, a mainstay of our Hooky beers over the years. It’s great to continue our longstanding association with Charles Faram.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 6
Bottle at home picked up from the brewery on my birthday weekend in April. Drunk now because it's just past it's BB date. Well chilled and a little hazy in the glass. A really English pale ale with lots of bitter hops that cut across the palate. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2025
at 17:06
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask from Briar Rose, Birmingham. Clear light amber with off white head, good lacing. Notes of toffee, stone fruits, earth, grapefruit zest, leafy bitterness. Slick and easy drinking. Good.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:07
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask @ Banker's Draft, Sheffield. Clear golden-amber with a head. Hoppy, mildly floral in both aroma and taste, some bitterness.
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Dec 2024
at 19:54
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tried
on 22 Oct 2024
at 09:35
7/10
On cask at the Standing Order. Appearance - golden to copper and fairly clear. Beige head. Nose - apple and toffee. Taste - apple, toffee and toasty. Palate - light to medium bodied, creamy then dry roasty. Overall - nice.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Oct 2024
at 10:18
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask at the Standing Order. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Aromas of light toffee and grapefruit. Taste is more of the same. Light bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 19 Oct 2024
at 13:35
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at Montgomerys Tower, Shrewsbury. Pours golden yellow with a small almost white head and good lacing. There’s malts and citrus in the aroma. In the mouth it is quite sweet and juicy with plenty of citrus, but also some old school hoppiness. Hints of marmalade, passion fruit and ginger later as well. Some fruitiness in the finish. This is reasonable – more a golden ale than a pale though.
Tried
from Cask
on 10 Oct 2024
at 20:21
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Clear and golden with a frothy white head and a soft sweet citrus aroma. Light to medium bodied with marmalade bitterness, a touch of chewy malt and some floral hop character, finishes dry and bittersweet
Tried
from Cask
at
Montgomery's Tower
on 10 Oct 2024
at 16:05
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
[Cask at the Hope Tap (JDW), Reading.] A pale amber pour with a tight white head; gentle fruity aroma, hard to identify; but a big passion fruit taste that makes it obvious; then a long dry finish with some bready malts and grapefruit pith. Very, very, tasty.
Tried
from Cask
at
Hope Tap
on 10 Oct 2024
at 11:04