3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Aroma: Hints of bread, but mostly basement aromas.
Appearance: Cloudy orange with minimal head.
Taste: Medium sweetness with a faintly bitter finish.
Palate: Medium body, soft carbonation, slick texture, long malty finish
Overall: I’m not thrilled by this beer, and while I’ll drink it, it’s too malty for my taste.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle at Monks Sveavägen. Golden beer with medium head. Sweet aroma. Mild bitter taste.
2.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
UPDATED: SEP 4, 2011 A - Caramel and honey with slight hints of fruit
A - Amber brown with thin white head
T - Slight sweetness with little to no bitter
P - Medium and a touch fizzy
O - Not much there
2.4 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle. A golden bitter with a thin white head. Malty aroma. Boiled malt, fruity, no hops.Hook Norton is a very good brewery and this is very good in the cask but in the bottle it’s dull and lifeless.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a slightly cloudy deep amber with a rocky white head that sticks to everything it touches. Smell is malty sweet with hints of toffee and caramel. There are some floral/earthy hops in here but every time I think I smell them they are gone to quickly. Taste is again malty bready and sweet with caramel and toffee. Some hops do come out in the flavor earthy floral cut through the malt quite nicely. There is a slight mineral element in the taste as well as a hint of butter. Medium to low level of carbonation, sweet sticky mineral mouthfeel with a medium body. This beer flew through my glass on this 98 degree day. This is an easy drinking light ale with enough flavor to keep my attention, to bad it takes a bit of work to get one of these to enjoy at home.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 11/20
500 ml bottle. From Oxford, England. HHOK IX.
Cloudy amber colour with small white head.
Darker malt, wood, nuts and caramel in aroma.
Flavour is malt, some hops, wood and nuts. Low carbonation.
Quite sturdy for a 3.6% brew.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pint bottle. Pours slightly hazy copper with off-white head. Sweet caramel nose with some fruity esters - a bit restrained from other really great english beers I’ve had. Simple session beer - nice malt character, pungent and earthy finish. Thin mouthfeel. Very drinkable.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
500ml bottle.
Poured into a English pint, it is a medium orangeish gold with a nice foamy white head. It recedes with some nice lacing.
The smell is very nice, it has a lot of lemon and orange zest, it is very zesty.
The taste is surprisingly similar, though more subdued. It has some zesty lemon/lime, a bit of grain, and some mineral water. It has a lot of flavor, though it is a bit blunt.
It is supremely drinkable.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 01-30-2011 04:34:35
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