Hook Norton Hooky Gold (Bottle)

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

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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500 ml bottle. Pours golden cloudy with a slowly collapsing white head. Mild peach fruity hops aroma, quite inviting. Flavor is mild grapefruit and peachy hops with a nice crisp take. Bitterness seems to take out the sweetness yet the balance seems quite good. Ends quite fruity and light bitter. Good summer ale style brew.

Bottle from Vaaland, Bryne. ABV 4,1%.Pours clear dark golden with a moderate sized white head. Aroma of pale malts and weak citrussy hops.Taste is dusty moderate sweet malts, nice balance. Thirst quencing qualities. Good body for a 4,1% beer.

Bottled. Another beer from the batch of 26 bottles I got for my thirsty five b-day. Brown and copper color. Quickly vanishing head, creamy and soapy. Malty taste with a strong presence of fresh wallnuts. Some tiny hints of fruit. Bitter and hoppy finish with a strong wallnut after taste (what I peronally like very much). Medium body and carbonation. A good thirst killer.

Bottle. Golden, small and mostly diminishing head. Moderate, malty and dryish aroma, some citrus - herbal hoppyness with some fruitiness. Body is medium, malty and lightly sweetish flavor, some citrus - herbal hoppyness with some fruitiness. Finish is average, malty and lightly sweetish, some citrus - herbal hoppyness. Lightly sweetish and OK hopped golden ale – could use more hoppyness considering the body/finish could be drier.

Kaatuu lasiin kullankeltaisena, hieman oranssiin vivahtavana, ja kirkkaana, vaahtomatto on noin sormen paksuinen ja vahvaa pitsiä jättävä. Kaunis brittiolut. Haju on pähkinäisen humaloitu, ruohoisella twistillä. Sitrusta ja lievää puumaisuuttakin löytyy, mutta pähkinäinen humalointi on se selkein löytyvä aromi. Maku on jälleen hyvin pähkinäinen, mutta nyt ruohoisuus ja sitruunaisuus on vahvempana mukana. Hieman kukkaisuuttakin löytyy. Suutuntuma on suht hiilihappoinen ja helposti juotava. Humalointikin tuntuu lopuksi. Kevyt, helppo ja simppeli golden ale, mutta melko maistuva. Kevyt, raikas ja laadukkaasti tehty, hyvää tavaraa.

0.5l bottle. This is a crystal clear dark nutty golden one with a small bubbly white head. On the nose I get soft watery fruits, some hops, peach and soft grass. Mild fair aroma. It’s light oily on the mouthfeel and the carbonation is right about average. Really easy to drink. Subtle fruity, it has a surprisingly good bitterness, light hoppy. Some sweetness also present here. By all means it’s not easy picking this in a blind test against any old OK bitter/golden, but it’s at least not boring all the way. A decent one. 27.04.2013

UPDATED: MAY 9, 2013 Bottle from Brewdog Slovensko. Clear amber colour. Medium sized white head, stable. Aroma rather malty / honey, with just light hops. Taste is not amazing, but not bad either. Medium bitterness, with nice spice-earth-grass hopy flavour. However I sense some metallic off-flavour. Also this beer is rather thin bodied. Easily drinkable. Dry hoppy/metallic finish. Good summer thirst quencher, not particulary delightful though.

.5l bottle @ K-supermarket Muurame Pours clear copper with medium head. Aroma is malts, butter, hay. Flavor is malts, honey, hops and grass. A bit bitter palate. Decent beer.

500 ml bottle, from Vaaland, Bryne. ABV is 4.1%. Golden colour, moderate white head. Aroma of grassy hops, some fruity notes too. Fairly dry flavour, light bodied, moderate hops throughout, zesty and mildly spicy notes, a hint of tobacco. Decent bitterness in the finish.

Bottle. Aroma is malty and has some citrus and fruity hops. Flavor has malty bitterness and mouthfeel is quite oily. Aftertaste is mainly malty bitter. Quite drinkable!