Hook Norton Brewery Company
- Location: Brewery Lane
Hook Norton, OX15 5NY
United Kingdom - Beers Brewed: 15
- Website: http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/
- Tour: Days: Monday to Saturday
Hours: 9am to 5.00pm (9.30am to 4.30pm on Sat)
Cost: GBP 9.50 - Beers: Hooky Dark
Hooky Bitter
Hooky Gold
Hook Norton Old Hooky
Hook Norton Double Stout
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The Hook Norton Brewery produces a fabulous range of award winning real ales and bottled beers. Everything about Hook Norton beers is a bit special and indeed different. To make our real ale requires the art, craft and skill of the brewer, the finest raw materials and water drawn from deep wells beneath our North Oxfordshire Brewery.
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- Feb 7, 2010DrThad (14)Rank: Beer AmateurGroup: British Beer Lovers4.1
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Hook Norton is my favorite brewery and was the best brewery tour that I have ever had! They have transformed their old maltings into a vistor's centre, tasting area, and museum. The tours begins and ends here. Over the course of two hours, you find out about the history of the brewery, village, their steam engine (which still powers the entire brewing process), and why they still use traditional techniques.
Unlike many other tours, you are likely to see the brewmaster or other brewers at work. At the least, you can see men racking casks, tending horses, unloading grain, cleaning vessels, and (if you are really lucky) having a pint in the on-site pub.
In addition to the wonderful tour, Hook Norton has one of the best slogans in all of brewing - "Where progress is measured in pints" - and the visitors centre is where you can pick up pints/shirts/bags/signs with it.