Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle 500ml.Clear medium orange colour with a small, virtually none, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, nutty, caramel, dusty malt, victorian furniture. Flavour is moderate sweet and light acidic with a average to long duration, dry, caramel, thin fruity tart. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20120805]

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottled@chriso. Amber colour, small head. Aroma is mild toast, some sweet malts, fruits and some slight spicyness. Flavour is bitter fruits, wood and some slight herbal and grassy notes.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Bottle at home ... golden yellow amber ... big white head ... soft bitter peppery floral hop ... too fizzy ... way too fizzy ... light floral orange bitter ... mellow slight toffee .. hint of bananana back bone ... soft light and easy,

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle at home ... copper ... thin bubbly off white head ... soft toffee fruits nose ... sweet metalic roast ... thin malts ... long light bitter linger .

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Brown bottle conditioned beer, 500ml, best before 03/2010, drank in 02/2010. Poured into a vase shaped pint glass (Old Speckled Hen), slowly because of the sediment within the bottle. Beautiful deep dark ruby red body with a huge tan coloured head, looks a picture. The thick, creamy tasting head stayed throughout the tasting, lovelly. Malts rule the roost in the smelling stakes, roasted, rich and plentiful. Smooth tasting, very smooth, deep lush malty feel to the flavours, a slight hop bitterness is in the taste but secondary to the roasted/toasted malts. Pale, Crystal and Black Malts are used in the gist, a blend of unmentioned hops with flaked and roasted barley according to the website. I can see where the taste comes from after reading that! Very impressed, would love to try this in cask form.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Feb 2010: known as Red Rock Traditional Bitter back then! 500ml brown bottle, the beer is bottle conditioned so it was poured slowly and carefully into my vase shaped pint glass (Old Speckled Hen badged). The beer had a slight haze to its appearance, even though I thought I’d managed to keep all of the sediment in the bottle. The beer was a lovelly copper colour, a fine foaming off-white head sat on top. The head left some heavy lacing as the beer sank in the glass, I like to see that, shows good conditioning in my opinion. Hops aromas hit the nose and they certainly give the beer a typical English Bitter flavour, meaning a bitterness to the ale. Simple and pleasant, the 4.2%ABV suits it, a good session bitter. --- Beer merged from original tick of Red Rock English Bitter on 09 Aug 2022 at 16:20 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5. Original review text: Hand-pulled pint in Barnstable at the Watergate, a Wetherspoon pub; 9th August 2022. Nice clean and clear amber body, off-white top. Bog standard Cooking Bitter with an easy drinking blend of semi-sweet malts and semi-bittering hops. Twiggy, not citrussy or piney in any way. I suspect it's a re-named beer because this brewery seem to have a few 4.2% Bitters in their portfolio.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

March 2010: This bottled conditioned 500ml of beer was consummed 3 months before its BBD. Poured into a vase shaped pint glass. A haze took the shine of this pale amber/orange coloured ale, on top sat a pure white head, deep initially, losing depth at a steady rate. Not sure if I poured in any sediment, or the beer is supposed to have a haze? Hops provided the most smell coming from the glass, flowery, grassy and with a hint of citrus fruits. The taste more or less followed the smells, with an extra tangy feel, an almost ginger style hotness too. The alcohol at only 3.8% ABV doesn’t sound interesting to some BA’s, but this is a well produced, balanced British Bitter and well worth trying.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask @ GBBF 2011. Pours a golden color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity weak hoppy citrus aroma. Fruity weak malty citrus flavor. Has a fruity citrus hoppy finish.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask @ Volunteer Arms, GBBF 2011. Pours a hazy yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty weak hoppy aroma. Fruity malty hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy finish.