Hook Norton Brewery

Regional Brewery in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated with 7 Venues

Established in 1849

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Brewery Lane, Hook Norton, OX15 5NY, England
Description
Sitting in its beautiful, mellow Cotswold Hills landscape, Hook Norton is a proudly independent and passionate family business that takes the very best of its handcrafted brewing heritage and combines it with a thoroughly modern approach, to create a range of real ales for today’s drinkers to enjoy.

Hook Norton is one of only 32 family owned breweries and is the finest example of a Victorian Tower Brewery in the country.

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Cask handpull at The County Hotel JDW Ashford. Clear russet colour lasting cream head. Some spice in it. Some milk chocolate. Not my thing spice. Some red fruits. Bit sweet. Eeek.
Tried from Cask on 25 Oct 2023 at 17:15

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask from JDW Ritz, Lincoln. Amber colour with an off white head. Light malty aroma and taste slight caramel. Medium body.
Tried from Cask on 21 Oct 2023 at 18:04

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On cask. Appearance - deep amber to brown. Not much head. Nose - dried orange and sweet spice. Chewy toffee and general cakiness. Taste - dried orange, cake and spice. Palate - close to medium bodied, chewy sweet middle and finish. Overall - lovely stuff. More of a winter than autumnal beer, mind.
Tried from Cask on 19 Oct 2023 at 14:40

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Cask at the Twelve Tellers, Preston. Pours clear amber with a thin off-white head. Aromas of light hedgerow fruits, earthy malt. Taste is more of the same. Light sweet finish.
Tried from Cask on 17 Oct 2023 at 09:54

9/10
Tried on 14 Oct 2023 at 18:07

6.1/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Cask @ The Turls Green, Bradford. Dark clear copper-amber with a glow and a thick creamy head. Certainly autumnal in taste, with smooth tasting malts abundant and earthy in design.
Tried from Cask on 14 Oct 2023 at 14:25

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Hand-pulled pint in my local Wetherspoons on 13th October 2023. It's not Ruby in colour, more amber with an off-white crust. More leafy than floral in the aroma, no dark fruits for me either, Rye giving an earthy touch; didn't take to it.
Tried on 14 Oct 2023 at 05:15

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Bottle @Beershoppe (Rome). Ambrata, scarica, schiuma leggera bianca. In bocca note di malto, frutta gialla matura, diacetile. In bocca è dolce, maltato, con tanto diacetile. Corpo leggero, carbonazione medio-leggera. Molto difettata
Tried from Bottle on 13 Oct 2023 at 20:12

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
[Cask at the Claude du Vall (JDW), Camberley.] A light chestnut coloured pour with a loose cream head; floral aroma; dry fruity taste with a slowly building bitterness; then a nutty finish.
Tried from Cask on 13 Oct 2023 at 14:10

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Amber / light copper with a frothy off-white head. Malty and a little fruity, not much of an aroma, some earthiness in the mouthfeel and some sweetness pulling through
Tried on 12 Oct 2023 at 22:06