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

Half a pint on cask at the red lion jdw.
Medium creamy beige head. Clear almost black pour. Light chocolate

Tried from Cask at Red Lion (JDW) on 12 Oct 2025 at 16:36

gave a cheers!

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6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 5.5

Wetherspoon 2025 Autumn Beer Festival. Ale#17 of 26 untried possibilities at the fest. Very dark reddish-brown coloured. Fairly flavourless dark malts, perhaps too 'mild' in most respects.

Tried from Cask at Regal Moon (JDW) on 10 Oct 2025 at 14:16


6.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Cask at the moon under water Watford Jdw. A clear mahogany brown black coloured pour with a lasting light tan head. Aroma is semi sweet, tangy dark fruit, rye bread, some burnt toast, woodland walk. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, nutty layered dark malts, hint of smoke, fruit and nut, tangy fruits. Palate is semi sweet, little thin, mellow cask condition. Decent mild.

Tried on 10 Oct 2025 at 12:31


6

Tried from Can on 09 Oct 2025 at 19:38



6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at Moon Under Water, Cheltenham. Dark brown with a beige head. Aroma is malty, dark fruits, slightly nutty. Taste is malty, sweet, dark/berry fruit, slightly nutty and chocolatey, light bitterness. Light bodied, thin. Just okay.

Tried from Cask at The Moon Under Water on 09 Oct 2025 at 13:10


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

Cask at the Cornfield Garage, Eastbourne. Poured a clear almost black colour with a thin, broken, off-white head. The aroma is roasty, malt, nutty. The flavour is light bitter, with a light, watery, herbal, light nutty, light hop bitter palate. Light bodied with flat carbonation. A poor example of the style.

Tried from Cask at Cornfield Garage (JDW) on 08 Oct 2025 at 21:42


6.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5.5

Cask at Paramount, Manchester. Pours a dark (almost very dark) reddish-brown with a small foamy cream head and good lacing. There’s malts and berry fruits in the aroma plus some herbal hints. In the mouth it is quite sweet but with a little underlying bitterness and a somewhat watery texture. Flavour of malts and hedgerow fruits with hints of cola coming later. Finish is slightly dry and fruity. This is reasonable but fairly nondescript.

Tried from Cask at Paramount on 08 Oct 2025 at 13:30


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6.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

7/10/2025. Cask at wetherspoon beer festival, at the Corn Exchange, Bury St Edmunds. Pours fine. Aroma is mild, malty, chocolate, dark fruit, hedgerow, slightly nutty and flowery. Quite weak and very watery. Drying bitter finish. Aroma/look is fine and I like a mild but this is lacking even allowing for its abv.

Tried from Cask at Corn Exchange (JDW) on 07 Oct 2025 at 15:03


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

[Cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading.] A tawny coloured pour with a red glint and a tight beige head; earthy malt aroma; smooth malty taste with a fresh leafy bitterness; and a clean earthy finish. A pleasant Mild.

Tried from Cask at Back of Beyond on 06 Oct 2025 at 11:13