Castle Rock Brewery
Commercial Brewery
in Nottingham,
Nottinghamshire,
England 🏴
Associated with 17 Venues
Established in 1997
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.
fiulijn (28383) reviewed Harvest Pale (Cask) from Castle Rock Brewery 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask Conditioned
Hazy blond color. Light hoppy aroma. Good, refreshing taste, quite malty, well hopped and aromatic; some fruitness behind the bitterness. Very good!
Ungstrup (52239) reviewed Nottingham Gold from Castle Rock Brewery 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
[Cask at Charlies Bar, Copenhagen] A hazy orange beer with a lazing thin beige head. The aroma is sweet and very flowery, I pick up elderflower and violet. The flavor is sweet and very perfumated and flowery - I find violet to be most dominant. It is too perfumated for me.
Ungstrup (52239) reviewed Hemlock Bitter from Castle Rock Brewery 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
[Cask at Charlies Bar, Copenhagen] A hazy nut-brown beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet fruity combined with notes of nuts - but a bit on the light side. The flavor is sweet and very malty and with powerful notes of toffee and nuts, leading to a dry bitter and slightly roasted end.
Ungstrup (52239) reviewed Hoverfly from Castle Rock Brewery 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
[Cask at Charlies Bar, Copenhagen] A hazy orange beer with a thin off-white head. The aroma is very lightly hoppy, while the flavor is sweet flowery with a light hoppy end. A great thirst quencher.
Harrisoni (26309) reviewed Harvest Pale (Cask) from Castle Rock Brewery 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Cask gravity at Kent beer festival. Pale gold colour. American hop nose, good citric flavour. Good tasty session beer, lots of flavour for such a eak beer. Exellent
Harrisoni (26309) reviewed Elsie Mo (Cask) from Castle Rock Brewery 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Cask at Head of Steam Euston London Mid gold in colour with a hoppy nose and superb balance throughout. More hoppy bitterness on the finish with citric flavours on nose and on finish. Truly excellent citrus golden beer of its type
Harrisoni (26309) reviewed Black Gold (Cask) from Castle Rock Brewery 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Cask at Catford Beer Festival. Dark ruby in colour, nice burnt malt nose, slightly acidic in mouth. Good bitter finish, a pretty good mild overall
Ungstrup (52239) reviewed Harvest Pale (Cask) from Castle Rock Brewery 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
[Cask at GBBF 2004] An orange beer with a small bubbly head. The aroma is sweet and flowery. The flavor is sweet flowery and fruity. A nice and fresh beer.
Sigmund (14673) reviewed Harvest Pale (Cask) from Castle Rock Brewery 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Cask conditioned at the Alexandra Hotel ("The Alex"), Derby. Very pale colour, low head. Fruity / citrussy aroma. Hoppy flavour, light bodied. Very nice for its strength.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Hemlock Bitter from Castle Rock Brewery 22 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(Cask) Slightly hazy amber. Creamy 1cm head. Nose of caramel, caramelized malts, Maillard. Strange off-taste, like mouldy malt. Caramel. Meaty-yeasty. Light to medium-bodied. Just OK. Uninteresting. Brewer ought to reinvent the brewers' fork - or another way of heating his mashtun.