Hook Norton Brewery Old Hooky (Cask)

Old Hooky (Cask)
(Batch of Old Hooky)

 

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

  Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular
Score
6.41
ABV: 4.6% IBU: - Ticks: 170
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6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask. Pours a mahogany color with moderate head. Aromas of caramel, mild red berries and bready malts. Flavors of caramel malts, a bit of grass and a little fruit. Pretty basic bitter.

Tried from Cask on 28 Oct 2025 at 21:20


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Half pint from the cask at the Lamplighter, St Helier, Jersey. Pours red / brown with a small white head. Aromas & tastes of red fruits, caramel & malt. Medium body. Light bitter finish. Enjoyable

Tried from Cask on 20 Jan 2025 at 20:35


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


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Cask at Moon under Water, Wolverhampton. This may well be the beer I’ve been drinking longer than any other, as I definitely remember drinking it when I lived in Oxford in the lates 1970s, and the other local breweries (Morland, Morells) are no longer with us. Anyway, pours a rich chestnut with a small white head and good lacing. Malt and nuts in the nose. In the mouth the texture is a bit watery with low carbonation. Taste reminds me mostly of red wine gums, but to expand, I would add malts, corn and oranges. A fairly sweet finish to round things off. Excellence personified.

Tried from Cask on 23 Jul 2020 at 21:55


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at the Mousetrap Inn, Bourton On The Water, 12/03/20. Golden copper with a well egg shell white head. Nose is biscuit malts, dried fruits, caramel, brown bread. Taste comprises biscuit malts, fruit slice, hint of brown bread, toffee. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, drying close with a mellow bitter edge. Solid bitter in good nick.

Tried from Cask on 13 Mar 2020 at 09:18