Hook Norton Hooky Dark (Bottle)

dark brown, well balenced ale. Had this brew at 5the GBBF 2007. Slimple, didnt add much to your palate

Sweet malt aroma. Dark brown red clear colour with poor head and lacing. Malt flavour with sweet aftertaste. Flat palate.

Bottled, pasteurised, 500ml. Dark brown with cream, but short lived, head. Strangely I found the bottled version to have a stronger roasted nutty flavour than the cask, still hoppy bitter on the finish giving the impression that the beer is a mix. A good bottled beer though.

A mild with hints of chocolate and toffee with more than an overtone of maltiness. A beer more apreciated during warm summer days in a North Oxfordshire pub garden. Not the best but most certainly not the worst.