Hook Norton Hooky Gold (Bottle)

Brewed by Hook Norton
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England

Good hop - Willamette. Clean, inoffensive, slightly biscuity malt with a pasteurised tang. A pleasant session bitter - quite dry and tangy. A decently crafted beer, somewhat marred by the brewery conditioning.

Bottle from the brewery. Brilliant gold with an uneven fluffy head. Bread, honey, fresh straw and peanut aroma, overlaid with zesty hop hinting at pineapple, cut grass, pollen and lime. Full, clean and slick with orange peel and juniper-like hop, marmalade, tonic water dabs, bread and vanilla. Clean and lingering with bags of soapy citrus and floral hop. Top drawer (pasteurised) GA.

Bottle. Small white fizzy head that mostly diminshed, transparent pale yellow body, fair amount of lacing, and fast rising carbonatioon. The aroma consisted of bitter hops, fruity, spicy, and some malt notes. The flavor was sweet, lightl bitter, hoppy, fruity, spicy, and it had a refreshing aspect to it. The mouthfeel was fairly smooth and this is a medium bodied beer. Easy to drink beer and uncomplicated.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a medium sized head of foamy with a frothy top white colored bubbles that were and left behind a transparent typically carbonated light orange colored body and a fair lacing. The mild aroma was malty and hoppy. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish. The thin yet crisp and tingly flavor contained notes of malt and hops. An OK brew just nothing special.

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. The look is clear, yellowish to golden in color, with a white head. The smell is malts, floral, hops, and citrus. The taste is weak, hops, floral, malts, and fruits.

Plateaued, foamy head that leaves spotty, but chunky lace after each sip. Slight haze to a light gold color. Earthy malt tones to the smell, some skunk; Light hop in the background. Creamy body with a light spritz in the background. Good malt base. The swallow is a pleasant blend of pale malts and bittering hops which last a decent amount of time in the aftertaste. A good run-of-the-mill English Bitter.

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Golden yellow in color with a small white head. Aroma is of grain and biscuit. Taste is of buscuit and light citrus.

(500ml bottle) Pours a lightly hazy golden body with a small off-white head. Aroma of grass, biscuit, straw, and florals. Flavor of mild hops (grass, floral, pine, citrus) and biscuit.