Hook Norton Brewery
Hook Norton Brewery was founded in 1849 by farmer and maltster John Harris in the village of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire. Commercial brewing began in 1856, with the first recorded brew being a Mild XXX on 24 November 1856. The current Victorian tower brewery was constructed during an expansion in the late nineteenth century and is still powered in part by a steam engine dating from 1899. The brewery has remained under family control for six generations and is one of a small number of UK breweries still using a steam engine in production.
Beers by Hook Norton Brewery
16 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Hook Norton Brewery brew a broad range across 7 style families.
Across these 16 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Hooky
Their beers place in the Top 55% of the catalogue on average, across 15 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Hook Norton Brewery
Hook Norton Brewery was founded in 1849 by farmer and maltster John Harris in the village of Hook Norton, Oxfordshire. Commercial brewing began in 1856, with the first recorded brew being a Mild XXX on 24 November 1856. The current Victorian tower brewery was constructed during an expansion in the late nineteenth century and is still powered in part by a steam engine dating from 1899. The brewery has remained under family control for six generations and is one of a small number of UK breweries still using a steam engine in production.
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