Hook Norton Hooky Gold (Bottle)

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

Bottled. A slightly hazy golden beer with a huge beige head. The aroma is very hoppy in a herbal and flowery way, but also with light notes of malt. The flavor is sweet malty with a nice flowery and somewhat grassy hoppy note giving it a bitter end where the flowery note turns into a light honey note, that lingers for a good while.

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.

Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are malt, hops, citrus and fruits. Nice bitter finish.

Unclear yellow orange with an off white head. Pale malt & hop aroma with slight fruity (citrus) notes. Light short bitter end. Drinkable & pleasant!

bottle: Typical English beer in ale vein: big hops, bitter tasting, spicy. This is a bitter tasting beer which i didn’t mind given some other flavours going on and these dry ales can be refreshing in the hot summer. Reminds me of St. Peter’s Golden Ale which was also almost harsh. Give me a bitter any day with more balance in the malts. A solid beer, but you have to appreciate this style to really enjoy this one. Still love the spiriti of low alcohol beers, really light & the perfect bev for lunch or dinner.

[Green bottle says "Hooky Gold"] Pours cloudy dark golden with a large frothy creamy white head. Sour wet bread aroma with a slight hop bite. Very sweet first taste, a little bit funky, actually quite funky, some butterscotch and definite noble hops. Some yeasty sourness. Not as complete focused as their other brews. Same great hooky body, except it doesn’t fit this beer like the others. Slightly creamy and very mellow soft carbonation.

Bottled at Horsens Beerfestival. Clear, pale golden with a small white head. Lemony, hoppy aroma. The flavor is quite hoppy and fruty as well. MEdium body. A nice quaffable beer but a bit on the hoppy side to me, meaning it lacks a bit of balance. (061028)

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.