Rock Harbor Pub & Brewery

Brewpub in Rockland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸

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416 Main St, Rockland, ME, 04841, United States

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6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 5.5
Pours semi golden yellow. Nose is citrus, orange, lime, apple vinegar. Palate is pretty salty, citrus, some apple. Fairly quaffable, decent Gose.
Tried on 09 Aug 2024 at 16:40

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
16 oz draft. Aroma is soft malt. Flavor is the pils malt that gives a lightly sweet character. Body is light with a soft crispness. Standard stuff.
Tried from Draft on 12 May 2024 at 00:01

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can pour from trade with AirForceHops--thanks, Chris! It's a mostly clear honey amber with light sparkle, finger-width off-white foamy head with good retention and light lacing. Aroma is moderately strong pine and caramel malt (almost like a light Black IPA). Taste resembles aroma but is a bit stronger. Mouthfeel is light side of light-to-medium bodied with smooth texture, average carbonation, no sign of alcohol and finish as taste. Overall, drinks lighter that one would expect for the style and the Black IPA quality is odd--wish they had just doubled down and gone for it--but I think this is what they were going for (or this is just old and the hops deteriorated). A sucker for the style.
Tried from Can on 21 Oct 2021 at 01:18

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
16 oz. can. No date code. Burnt orange in color. Aroma is soft grapefruit and orange marmalade. Flavor is somewhat balanced with grapefruit, herb, pine hops and sweet malt that gives that marmalade character. Extremely old school double IPA. Good.
Tried from Can on 12 Sep 2021 at 01:07

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
14 ounce draft. Standard dark brown/ black color. The flavor is subtle coffee, charred chocolate malt. Roasted barley. For the gravity their mouth feel and texture is OK.
Tried from Draft on 05 Sep 2021 at 12:05

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Draught at the brewery, 8/12/17.
Cloudy (???) dark amber with a small, off-white head showing low retention.
Roasted nuts galore mix with peanut butter and caramel...is this a DMS bomb? Seems like it and it dominates the nose.
In the mouth it fares better, given that DMS is usually stronger in the nose. Soft, malty, low acidity/bitterness (almost zero hops apparent) and lots of caramel, honey and peanut character in the mouth. Soft and supple texture, however, saves the day somewhat. Still rather strange about the strong peanut character....
Tried on 10 Jan 2018 at 11:26

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Draught at the brewery, 8/12/17.
Tan/maize wheat colored body is cloudy and has no head.
Smells of soft tangerine; I believe this is an American wheat with orange peel and maybe coriander or lemongrass. Lots of orange character, especially considering they garnished it with a fucking orange...
Tastes rather clove-like, but with good raw wheat-like graininess. Low carb but a chewy, ample wheat-heavy texture. Honey and coriander give a spicy-sweet finish. Pretty nice, actually, mostly on the back of the good attenuation and supple, chewy wheat textures.
Tried from Can on 10 Jan 2018 at 11:14

4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3
Draught at the brewery, 8/12/17.
Very coppery, clear with a medium-sized, well-retained, beige head.
Smells either very heavily cerealic or worty....Overboiled, bitter/sour hops on the end with strong, fruity esters breaking through, as well. Thinking it's wort.
Turns out nope, it's actually not too sweet/sugary/worty, but indeed is massively over-bittered/over-boiled. Nice, tight carbonation on a thin, undermalted texture. Sour hops and sourdough-like, astringent specialty malts linger. Yuck.
Tried on 10 Jan 2018 at 11:10

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Reviewed from notes.
The appearance was a milky brown color with a flimsy foamy off white head. Really slow dissipation. Moderate lace.
The aroma had some caramel/toffee malty qualities. Light chocolate, some nuts. Mild dark fruits.
The flavor leaned towards the sweet side with a decent malty to semi-roasty sort of aftertaste riding on into the finish.
The feel was about medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Slight smoothness along my tongue. Carbonation felt fine.
Overall, nicely done brown ale leaning towards the English side and good enough for me to have again.
Tried on 02 May 2017 at 13:02

7.4/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Draught at the brewery, 5/29/16.
Glowingly bright, orange-golden with an almost red grapefruit tint to it and a soft haziness throughout. White head atop is large and shows strong retention.
Definitely in search of the New England IPA here, and it nearly hits the mark. Certainly had plenty that fall very short of this quality. Just a bit too much pine and bitterness, with a touch of sourness and heavy melon-like character. But it never gets fatiguing, just remains pretty bold and bitter. Was waiting for the alcohol punch and sourdough-like malt to hit, but neither ever did, actually and the fruitiness carried to the finish, with light caramel, lots of grapefruit but also ample cherry and mango. Tight carbonation and good attenuation, with a creamy texture. I enjoyed Rogue Wave, as well and am looking forward to trying more IPAs next time I go. They are definitely on to something here.
Tried on 06 Jun 2016 at 15:51