Screech Owl
Castle Rock Brewery in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England 🏴
IPA Regular|
Score
6.51
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Originally one of the 12 ‘Natural Selection’ brews back in October 2008 to support the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust’s Adopt a Species Campaign, it immediately won the Society of Independent Brewers (Midlands) Supreme Champion Beer award at the Robin Hood Beer Festival and followed this success by winning the SIBA National Strong Bitter title, as well as bronze Strong Bitter (Champion Beer of Britain) 2013. Brewed to export strength this strong well hopped India Pale Ale has become a firm favourite with followers of the style.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tried at the Golden Eagle, Lincoln. Hazy golden colour with a white head. Aroma has plenty of tangerine and tropical hoppiness. Taste light sweet tinned bitter. Medium easy drinking body.
Tried
on 07 Jun 2017
at 08:49
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask at praf 2016. Pours golden, nose is sweet caramel, sickly, floral, taste is sweet, caramel, light fruit.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Apr 2016
at 08:50
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Paisley Beer Festival 2016. Pours clear pale gold with a thin bubbly white head. Aromas of faint herbs, butterscotch. Taste is more of the same. Thin, bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Apr 2016
at 08:48
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at In De Wildeman. Pours clear golden with a white head. Aroma of fruity hops, musty notes, butter, dough. Flavour is light to moderate sweet and bitter. Some orange and caramel coming out in the palate. Light medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Dec 2014
at 05:48
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm. Clear golden. Intense fruity hay aroma. Mid sweet with medium body and soft mouthfeel. Chewy malt, lots of hay-like hops, really bitter finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 12 Mar 2014
at 09:50
6/10
Tried
on 06 Mar 2014
at 10:09
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Cask at Great British Beer Festival 2013. Poured a slightly hazy golden colour with a thin white head. Slightly funky aroma with grassy notes and stewed apples. Flavours of bread, honeycomb and cake. Turns to cooked fruits, malts and cornbread.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Sep 2013
at 12:34
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Chiara schiuma media leggero diacetile un tocco citrico note maltate amaro medio
Tried
on 19 Aug 2013
at 06:52
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
From cask. Pours cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is light herbal to grassy hoppy. Bitter, grassy, ashtray and herbal. Bitter, dry and subdued malty finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 15 Aug 2013
at 04:46
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Black country bus bash. Cask at the Jolly Crispin. Slight haze, dense white head, some lace and yellow colour. Some citrus, slight nutty, bready malt. Juicy clean crisp bitterness.
Tried
from Cask
on 29 Jul 2013
at 14:47