Hook Norton Double Stout (Pasteurised Bottle)

Brewed by Hook Norton
Style: Stout
Banbury, England

Serve in English pint

Bottle at home. Dark brown with a big bubbly creamy tan head. Aroma is very roasty, quite milky and a bit of chocolate and some coffee bitterness. Taste is very smooth and creamy. Long lasting bitter finish. Quite smooth in the mouth. Pretty nice beer with bags of flavour.

Very foamy, pours dark amber. Sweet, fruity, plums and alcohol. Tastes dusty. Smokey flavour, burnt malt, coffee, long strong bitter aftertaste.

This stout has a full flavour but a light taste and a pleasant aftertaste. It’s more like a dark ale than some well known stouts. Very easy drinking.

black/deep dark brown colour, opaque but not hazy, pours a white slightly tanned head that settles into a creamy silky pile into the middle. the aromascape is definitely something, with a very musty and dusty tone, a very deep roast side to this, escorted by dark chocolate, coffee, cream, caramel, nuts, earth, malt, herbs, grass.. a satisfying deep and complex nature. the taste carries on nicely from where the aromas left, with a very smooth overall nature. coffee-like bitterness is strongly present but in a very smooth way, sweetness is complementing the aromas in a subtle way. the body feels full but in a somewhat bubbly creamy way. carbonation works nicely with a spark but not overruling anything. texture combines creaminess with a slick oily sweep. a very balanced dark beer with a solid character. I was left wanting a bit more character from the taste and palate, bringing out more flavours from those nice aromas and that way deepening the entity. Felt like they were playing it a bit too safe. but, this again is just my personal taste kicking in.

Bottle sample at a tasting at Dagan’s place. Thanks Oren. Clear dark brown. Roasty aroma with chocolate. Roasty flavor with chocolate and coffee, light burnt hints and a drier finish. Medium-bodied. A nice Stout.

500ml bottle pours almost black in color with an inch of beige head with decent retention and a few spots of thick lacing on the glass. Aroma is light roasted malts and some coffee. Taste is roasty malt bitterness with some malty sweetness and a very mild hop bitterness in the finish. A very refreshing stout which I thoroughly enjoyed tasting.

(Bottle) Pours dark brown to black with a creamy nougat colored head. The aroma is fantastic - lots of creamy milk chocolate/sweet dark chocolate up front wih undertones of buttery cookies, dark fruits, brown sugar, grainy dark bread and light earthy and mild spicy hops. Bit milky and coconut-like. Maybe a touch of mint and sal ammoniac. The flavour is light sweet, medium bitter and tiny acidic. Roasted, toasted, robust (earthy and spicy) hoppy, light fruity and light nutty. The mouthfeel is creamy, round and velvety with a light to medium carbonation. Mild roast/toast and lingering hops bitterness on the finish. Medium (Surprisingly robust) body. Fantastic!

What the .... one missing again??? Sample from bottle at Porterfestivalen 2011 Göteborg AR: thin choclate aroma AP: pitch black no head F: coffey, medium good quality choclate, dry