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Hook Norton Double Stout (Pasteurised Bottle)

Hook Norton Double Stout (Pasteurised Bottle)

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85
overall
A Stout brewed by
Hook Norton

Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England

bottled
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Broad Distribution
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1623.51/5.03.5/5.04.8%77.1English pint P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Bottled. Pasteurised.
A smooth, full-bodied stout with a refreshing hoppy aftertaste. Brewed with proportions of Black Malt for colour and 'toast' flavour and Brown Malt for dryness. Based on a recipe over 100 years old, brewing was revived in 1996 after a break of 79 years.

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 Wulfstan (481), California, USA
4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/510/105/518/20

Feb 14, 2008  
A great stout. It is dark, dark red with a huge light tan head that is long lasting and leaves pretty good lacing. The aroma is toast, chocolate, with hints of malty caramel, coffee, and a flowery quality - a ver nice, well-rounded stout aroma. The taste is chocolate, prunes, toast, at first sweet, thick, and oily but thinning out a little and becoming more light, dry, tingly, and lively, with a light flowery quality and bitterness in the finish added to the rest.

 jimhilt (1468), Bow, New Hampshire, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Oct 24, 2008  
Pours a two finger light tan head that fades slowly to a thin layer leaving a good lace. Nearly black color hints of mahogany highlights. Roasted coffee/chocolate nose. Good carbonation and heavy bodied. Flavor is baked chocolate with a hop bite at finish. $6.50 for a 500ml bottle from Tully’s Beer & Wine Wells, Me.


 beerbill (1393), Laurel, New York, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Oct 22, 2008  
16.9 oz. bottle. Pours black with a moderate, somewhat dense, tan head that lasted through the first third of the glass and left a thin coating of film. Pleasant aroma of chocolate, coffee and lightly roasted malt. The flavor is full of chocolate along with coffee and lightly roasted malt and just a bit of cherries becomes noticeable at the finish. Fairly smooth and silky. Not at all heavy; this is a very sessionable beer, although the $4.99/bottle pricetag makes that a bit of an expensive session.


 liinis (506), Finland
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/515/20
Oct 19, 2008  
very black with brown head. Delicious stout, thick and full bodied. typical liquorice malt and coffee flavors. Very well balanced.


 thegreenrooster (1576), St.louis, Missouri, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/516/20
Oct 18, 2008    Updated: Oct 19, 2008
Pour is a black with a small white head. Aroma is lots of burning and rosted coffee. Flavor is coffee and dark chocolate with a very sliky sweet feel to it. Finish is medium bodied and not to heavy. This is a stout i could totaly get into as it has just the right amount of roasted qualities but backs it up with the right amount of sweetness. I agree with the rater below me that this could almost be a milk stout.


 17thfloor (807), Chicago, Illinois, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/105/516/20
Sep 24, 2008  
Pours a very dark opaque reddish brown with a huge creamy beige froth on top! Sweet and sour aroma of spoiled milk, light chocolate, and malted milk balls. First taste is of dry roast and cream, followed by a more sweeter roast. Not too sweet, nor too dark and roasty... really excellent balance. There is some definite sourness in the finish/aftertaste as alluded to by the aroma, also a tad of licorice. Full bodied, creamy, with very gentle large bubbled carbonation. Well balanced, tastes like a milk stout, but not quite a sweet stout.



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