Hawkstone
Microbrewery
in
Bourton-on-the-Water,
Gloucestershire,
England 🏴
Associated Venue: Cotswold Brew Co
Associated Webshop: Cotswold Brew Co
Established in 2005
Contact
College Farm, Stow Road, Bourton-on-the-Water, GL54 2HN, England
Description
Hawkstone is the brainchild of Jeremy Clarkson and Rick and Emma from the Cotswold Brew Co. Having put blood, sweat and tears into cultivating his malting barley, Jeremy was determined that it be put to good use, so resolved to supply it directly to a local brewery to turn into lager. He was introduced to Rick and Emma from the Cotswold Brewery by the landlord at their local and they hit it off immediately. Like Jeremy, they’re committed to supporting local agriculture but they’re not just good people, they’re also excellent brewers. They created Hawkstone Lager - a brew of such exquisite quality that Jeremy decided to invest.
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle from Utobeer. Clear gold, thin white head. Light lemony aroma. Wow, very clean, very lemony, easy drinking, no bad flavours, no puke, no cardboard. It’s a very decent light lager. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2009
at 13:10
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
33cl bottle thanks to MagicDave6, cheers Tom. Clean pale gold with off white head. Decent lager. Light clean aroma, touch of butter on the pale malts and some ok hops on finsh. Drinkable enough stuff. Decent British brewed lager.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2009
at 08:11
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle 50cl.Clear medium yellow color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted, cardbord notes, light to moderate hoppy, lemon. Flavor is moderate sweet and light light bitter with a average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20090802]
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Oct 2009
at 10:57
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Golden with a small white head. Aroma of malt and caramel with diacetyl. Flavour is slightly sour, dominated by diacetyl.
Tried
on 16 Sep 2009
at 12:52
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From a keg at the Priory, Tetbury, Gloucestershire 23/08/09. Pale gold with slight carbonation. Sweetish malts, some citrus and a mineral edge, leading to a dryish finish. A pretty good lager.
Tried
on 23 Aug 2009
at 16:52
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottled. Hazy yellowish colour, small white head. Aroma is malts, grains, some slight hops. Flavour is malts, grains and some rubber. Not very pleasant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2009
at 16:48
5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
330ml bottle from Hampers Food & Wine, Woodstock] Pours deep amber with a slightly dirty looking foamy off-white head. Moderate carbonation, but not too intrusive by lager standards. Smells of dusty chocolate. Initial flavour of chocolate develops through autumn leaves into bitterness with slight metallics. Quite a short finish. Overall an OK beer, but not one I’d especially return to.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jan 2009
at 18:18
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap on the Saturday of the Cheltenham National Cheese Festival. Poured a light golden colour with a slim white head. Clean and refreshing and at such a reasonably weak strength this could be quite gluggable, but I’m not sure that it would have enough to keep me enticed. It was more flavoursome than many of rivals in this sector but it lacked a real depth of flavour though as Doppelganger states such coldness can hide some of the hoppier characteristics which are definately there but just hidden somewhat. Absolutely fine.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Oct 2006
at 15:58
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Had this at the National Cheese Festival, Montpellier, Cheltenham, 30-09-06. A light golden appearance, very crisp and refreshing with hoppy notes and some citrus tangs to it, quite dry and all in all not bad at all.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2006
at 01:46