Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Hooky Gold (Bottle) from Hook Norton Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. A slightly hazy golden beer with a huge beige head. The aroma is very hoppy in a herbal and flowery way, but also with light notes of malt. The flavor is sweet malty with a nice flowery and somewhat grassy hoppy note giving it a bitter end where the flowery note turns into a light honey note, that lingers for a good while.
Sigmund (14587) reviewed Lion (Cask) from Hook Norton Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask conditioned at The Lord Rosebery, Scarborough. Served at correct cellar temperature. ABV was 4.2%. Golden colour, very cloudy. Low creamy head. Hoppy and fruity aroma. Distinctly hoppy and grapefruity flavour throughout, very nice.
Beese (811) reviewed Lion (Cask) from Hook Norton Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask, Moon Under Water, Watford. Golden, slightly hazy appearance, with a some white head. Rather hoppy smell, slightly estery taste and quite bitter aftertaste. Quite nice.
berkshirejohn (10223) reviewed 303AD (Bottle) from Hook Norton Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
500ml bottle from Sainsburys. Golden colour with a creamy cream coloured head; aroma of hops and citrus; malty body with a dry finish. Rather disappointing.
Beese (811) reviewed 303AD (Bottle) from Hook Norton Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Sainsbury’s. Poors a golden colour with a white head that stays and sticks to the side of the glass. A nice hoppy smell and a pleasant enough bitter taste. The aftertaste is nice, but not brilliant. A good beer in a bottle, but I imagine the unpasturised cask version is better.
MiP (20366) reviewed Hooky Gold (Cask) from Hook Norton Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask. Nicely fruity hop aroma. Nice fruity hoppiness in flavour, hint of yeast. Good, medium bitterness. A very good bitter.
berkshirejohn (10223) reviewed Old Hooky (Cask) from Hook Norton Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the Jolly Anglers, Reading. A pale reddish chestnut colour, with a white head; little aroma; dry and fruity in the mouth, with hints of orange, becoming seeter, and then leaving a modetrately bitter finish. Pleasant, but not outstanding.
omhper (44752) reviewed Hooky (Bottle) from Hook Norton Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6
Bottled at Loch Ness, Stockholm. Cloudy reddish amber,rocky head. Caramelly nose with some paper. Medium sweet, light bodied. Some wonderful chewy doughy malt laquered by vague hay-like hops. Medium bitterness. The malt carries this beer, and that is where Hook Norton excels.
gunnfryd (21926) reviewed Hooky Gold (Cask) from Hook Norton Brewery 18 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Cask at the Wharf, Aalborg. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, hop, malt. Flavour is sweet, fruit, hop, malt. Ok beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Amber with off white head. Malty caramel with fruity tones. Ok body with overall moderate taste. Pleasant slight bitter end. Simple but quite drinkable!