Castle Rock Bunting

Formerly brewed at Castle Rock
Style: Bitter
Nottingham, England

Serve in English pint

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Cask (gravity dispense), St Albans Beer Festival 2005. Castle Rock usually does these low ABV beers rather well, but I thought this was a rather lacklustre effort. Deep amber colour (didn’t notice ant reddish tinge myself), with no appreciable head. Quite a powerful hop aroma but it tilts towards clammy, sweaty, Fuggles character. Not really a lot happening in the flavour stakes. Hints of dry malt and a light bitterness. Quite soft but fairly dry. A bit thin, as one might expect from the ABV. Certainly not a bursting out type of beer. Castle Rock generally tends towards paler beers an I didn’t find this attempt at a more Autumnal style entirely convincing. A decent dry quaffer but nothing more.

Cask Stillage at the Memorial Hall, Northwich 17/09/2005 Golden coloured hoppy and slightly fruity. Some dryness in a bitter finish.