Thomas Hooker Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in Bloomfield,
Connecticut,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Thomas Hooker Brewery
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Irish Red? This looks more like a nut brown, deep copper brown color no head. Sweet malty aroma. Nice flavor, malty and sweet at the start with touches of caramel and brown sugar. Finish is sweet and smooth. Finally, a Hooker beer I enjoy.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Poured a clear gold color with absolutely no head. None. Yeasty aroma, but also alot like wine. Looks like wine too. Hmm. Flavor is lacking, a little grassy and slightly grainy. Finish was smooth and crisp. Very light, I just don’t care for the style and this is too simplistic.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Poured a dark nut brown with orange hues with a fast fading white head. Grainy, yeasty aroma that is slightly floral. Flavor is the same, malty and grainy and sweet. Finish leaves something to be desired. Flat and slightly off. I liked the initial flavor but not the end.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
2005 bottle - aged 1 year. Pours deep mahogany into a snifter. Tan head quickly subsides to bubble the surface. Oak and hop aromas. Upfront vanilla changes to a lasting smoked bourbon finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
2006 bottle; Nose is dark fruit, caramel, and some woodiness; hazy dark walnut with very little head; flavor shows caramel malts, dark fruits, bourbon, vanilla, and some alcohol (pretty well covered though), with some mild hop bitterness showing at the end.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle: Amber with a large white head and nice lacing. Nose is strong floral and citrus hops, taste is more hops with a nice malty sweetness. The floral and citrus blended well, maybe even a bit of pine. Nice and dry - very crisp. Thanks DocLock!
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
(Bottle 50 cl) Hazy and opaque reddish brown almost without any head. - not your typical Barley Wine look. Odd, unclean aroma - some dried fruit perhaps. Quite full-bodied with accents of roasted malt and dried fruit - perhaps some plums. A bitter finish. Quite inharmonious. 011206
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle; wheaty malt nose; copper with a small white head; flavor of toasty bread and caramel out of the medium body witha dry finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle poured into a small goblet. Pours with no head and just some lacing. Color is orangish amber. Its kind of just there, definitely an APA. Hops are present but not overwhelming. Malt flavors are subdued. Some hop bitterness. A water empty aftertaste. Not bad and fine, actually crazyvin says it best, its "only okay."
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Cask at Spuyten Duyvil - shocking clarity for a cask ale - rather sweet, doughy aroma, with not much else going on - big caramel malt presence, and a slight roasty quality - quite drinkable, but really not much going on.
Brewery Stats
| Score | 6.78 |
| Beers | 49 |
| Ticks | 397 |
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