Castle Rock Brewery

Commercial Brewery in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated with 17 Venues

Established in 1997

Contact
Queensbridge Road, Nottingham, NG2 1NB, England
Description
Castle Rock was originally founded in 1977 by former Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) chairman Chris Holmes, and was formed as a partnership between Bramcote Brewery & Tynemill in 1997 (Bramcote have now stopped brewing). The site opened next door to the Vat & Fiddle in Nottingham, which is now the Castle Rock Brewery Tap.

Adrian Redgrove was appointed in 2004 and the brewery went from strength to strength, producing high quality and consistent beers time after time after time. From the opening of the brewery, production grew from 30 barrels a week to over 100 barrels a week in 2010. Word spread and Castle Rock’s reputation grew.

In 2010, with the second brewery bursting at the seams Castle Rock underwent a further expansion, with a whole host of new equipment and an increased capacity of 360 barrels a week.

Today the brewery continues to create innovative new beers, while remaining consistent and of exceptional high quality. That said we reassure our customers that it isn’t ‘job done’ and we will work hard to continue to provide the very best beers that we can possibly deliver.

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6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ Wellington, B2, Birmingham. Clear dark red brown color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, light brown head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, caramel, light port, dry fruits. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. (Hop bitter and sweet). Body is medium, texture is watery, carbonation is flat.
Tried from Cask on 17 Aug 2007 at 06:07

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Golden yellow/orange in colour,Light hop nse,with a zingy lemon citrus hop flavour.
Tried on 03 Jun 2007 at 04:31

4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
Cask gravity at Ealing BF 2007. Amber, bubbly off white head. Bit of diacetyl aroma. It’s an alright bitter, but the buttery diacetyl ruins it.
Tried from Cask on 19 May 2007 at 03:24

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Cask gravity at Planet Thanet BF 2007. Copper colour. Minerally and hoppy aroma. Bit of Burton Snatch. To be honest I had this after a big f**k off dry cider, so it’s difficult to appreciate the subtleness. Decent pear drop hop on finish. Burton snatch aroma works quite well.
Tried from Cask on 21 Apr 2007 at 03:39

6.2/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 3 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
Cask at The Wenlock Arms. Aroma was faint and ambiguous. Hazy amber color with decent beige head. Starts ripe stone fruit, followed by malt. Medium mouthfeel. Very fresh bitter finish. Flavorful.
Tried from Cask on 29 Mar 2007 at 16:13

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
a pale ale , that was light a hoppy, with a citric hop nose. Standing order beer fest05 2.4.. Cask at aberdeen Beer festival ... retry light fruity hoppy
Tried from Cask on 05 Mar 2007 at 09:50

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Cask/gravity at Ipswich beer festival 24 Sep 2006. Golden coloured. A small head. Hoppy and fruity aroma. A rich flavour of chocolate and fruit. Pleasant sweet bitter finish.
Tried from Cask on 30 Oct 2006 at 15:39

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Cask, Gravity at the oepning of Merton playground Sat 21st October 2006. Golden colour with a bubbly fast dissapearing head. Fresh, fruity mainly citrusy in both aroma and taste, aligned with some underlying sweetness, good level of bittereness this really was a very nice beer.
Tried from Cask on 23 Oct 2006 at 01:31

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Pale golden in colour with good clarity and a low white head. Hoppy to the nose. Flavour is dominated all the way through by hop bitterness (half pint on gravity served in perfect condition at The Fat Cat in Ipswich 22.09.2006).
Tried on 15 Oct 2006 at 03:22

6.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle from Asda, Long Eaton: Pale bronze colour with a long lasting creamy head. Fresh citrus aroma, sweet malty taste with hoppy finish.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Sep 2006 at 02:59