Hook Norton Brewery Early Mist

Early Mist

 

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

  Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular Out of Production
Score
6.67
ABV: 4.3% IBU: - Ticks: 9
Special - JDW Spring Festival 2010.

Hops: Challenger, Fuggles, Goldings, Styrian Goldings

A springtime beer, with a pale, light auburn colour and a light, fruity flavour which imparts a pine, lemon and citrus hop character.
 

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

Cask (handpump) @ The Bankers Draft, 1-3 Market Place, Sheffield, South Yorkshire England S1 2GH.Clear medium yellow orange color with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, fruity, light to moderate hoppy, citrus - lemon, citrus. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20100424]

Tried from Cask on 28 Oct 2010 at 14:23


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

12th April 2010. Clear gold beer. Apologetic thin head. Low carbonation. Creamy malt with some well behaved light hop. A little grapefruit marmalade. A whisper of orange. Slightly bitter aftertaste. Not too shabby!

Tried on 26 Jun 2010 at 04:46


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

[Gravity cask at the Back of Beyond, Reading] Light refreshing golden ale with citrus flavours and a decent bitterness - a good thirstquenching summer ale. Very nice, and more flavoursome than I’ve come to expect from this brewery.

Tried from Cask on 27 Apr 2010 at 17:05


8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Cask at The Penny Black, JDW, Bicester, Oxon, 14-04-10 Pours light gold with a thin white head. This is crisp, clean, lemony, streaky lemony hops in fact, its simple, lovely and the tastiest thing from Hook Norton for some time, a wonderful hoppy beer, that outgunned the Brewdog Trashy Blond which (new cask) was a much better beer than I had on Saturday. The hoppiness in this Hooky was quite surprising but most welcome. In the same way that the Cigar City brewery lovers from Florida get called ’homers’ I’m sure that mine and Glens rating will get us viewed in a similar vein, but believe me this is a very, very good beer from Hooky, I looked at the rest on offer and had another and stood at the bar with others I wasn’t the only one to do this. It was also the best kept beer here tonight, maybe its proximity to the brewery helps, whatever I don’t really care, I liked it very much. A7 A5 F8 P4 Ov16 4.0

Tried from Cask on 14 Apr 2010 at 13:18


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask at Thomas Gerad JDW... light yellow ... thin white head ... grassy sweet heay hop ... not my thing ... little dry in linger.... 3.1 tk2 cask at standing order jdw ... goldn yellow thinest white head .... soft light lemon fruits nose ... soft light bitter easy drinking hop but not really me 3.2

Tried from Cask on 11 Apr 2010 at 23:16


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask-conditioned at the Commercial Rooms (JDW), Bristol 8/04/10. Pale gold with a decent white head. A well-balanced bitter with some decent citrus hops, bready malts, a touch of minerals and long, bitter finish. Very good.

Tried from Cask on 11 Apr 2010 at 01:15


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask @ Society Room, JDW. 44p / half pint! Glowing golden colour, small white head. Aroma is fairly hoppy, a bit malty, hints of citrus. Flavour is fruity, malty backbone, citrus. Slightly bitter finish. Very drinkable.

Tried from Cask on 10 Apr 2010 at 06:18


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask handpull at Samuel Peto, JDW, Folkestone. I had this down as Early Mist. Gold, thin fizzy white head. It’s an ok golden ale, bit of stale malt on the finish I thought at first, but then as I drank my third of a pint it became really quite decent with some light tropical flavours and some bitterness on the finish. I gave it to a non beer drinking friend and they liked it too.

Tried from Cask on 08 Apr 2010 at 04:35


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Cask at the Moon and Spoon (JDW), Slough. Straw coloured with a thin white head; citrus aroma; sharp grapefruit citrus flavour and a clean fresh lemony finish. Very drinkable.

Tried from Cask on 08 Apr 2010 at 04:10