MiP (20366) reviewed Lion (Bottle) from Hook Norton Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Strange, perfumy hop aroma. The flavour has grass, hay, fruit notes from hops. Pleasant berry-like aftertaste. Thin mouthfeel.
oh6gdx (51139) reviewed 303AD (Cask) from Hook Norton Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Casked. Copper coloured, big beige bubbly head, which lasts for quite a while. Aroma is strong fruity hops along with some wooden and even spicy hints. Flavour is fruity and smoothly hopped along with some spices. The finish is almost close to caramelly sweet. Very wellbalanced brew, and creamy palate. In aftertaste there’s also some slight vanillaish hints.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle from Asda, High Wycombe poured chestnut with a beige head; pleasant fruity aroma; sweet malty flavour with traces of boiled sweets and pear drops and a dry hoppy aftertaste.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Asda. Pours a reddish brown clour with an off-white head; rich fruity aroma; chewy and dry in the mouth with nuts, fruit and hoppy bitterness mingling with the roasted malts; a warming finish. Excellent!
Anders37 (30296) reviewed Twelve Days (Cask) from Hook Norton Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask @ Charlie’s Bar, Copenhagen. Pours a ruby colour with an off-white head. Malty fruity vinous aroma. Fruity malty dry bitter vinous flavor. Dry malty finish with a long bitter fruity finish.
pivnizub (12821) reviewed Haymaker (Bottle) from Hook Norton Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle: Deep golden to light amber coloured with a medium-sized fluffy head: slowly collapsing, but still stable; citrousy-fruity nose with a tinge of molasses and a distinctive (presumably continental) hoppy aroma; moderate bitter lavour, light to medium bodied; malty, slightly sweetish finish with a very pleasant, lingering aromatic hoppiness. The right stuff..........
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle: Deep mahagony coloured, small fluffy tanned head; dry dark-malty and roast-malty nose with a tinge of fruitiness and an illusion of molasses, hops detectable; moderate dry bitter flavour, light bodied; dry - again - fruity-bitter finish, a touch of burnt grain; with a lingering chocolatey bitterness. Good well-crafted and spicy stuff........
CloakedDagger (37227) reviewed Lion (Bottle) from Hook Norton Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(Bottle 50 cl) Clear, golden with a small, white head. Lightly citric aroma. Medium body completely dominated by a very dry and rather bitter hoppiness. Fresh. 281006
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(Bottle 50 cl) Clear, golden with a small, white head. Lightly citrusy, hoppy aroma. Fairly light body with a discreet malt sweetness but otherwise dominated by fresh, citric hop notes leaving a light bitterness. 281006
pivnizub (12821) reviewed 303AD (Bottle) from Hook Norton Brewery 19 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle: Amber coloured, huge off-white fluffy head; a big touch of hop-resins and hop-oil in the aroma, together with some fruity notes; mainly dry bitter, robust flavour, rather light bodied; some hints of lemons in the - again - dry and bitter finish. A tasty brew, which should have a bit fuller body.........