Cromarty Red Rocker

Brewed by Cromarty
Style: Specialty Grain
Cromarty, Scotland

Serve in Shaker, Tumbler

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500ml bottle from The Beerhive. Small off white head dissipates quite quickly with some good lacing. Body is dark reddy brown. Nose is a mixture of sweetness and hops. Good full mouthfeel with medium carbonation. Very good balance of malt and hops, some pine flavour counteracted by the malt. Initial aftertaste is bitter before the sweetness of the malt comes through.

500ml bottle. Big hoppy aroma. Pours a dark reddish brown with a foamy off white head. Tastes really good with a little sweetness and a big, refreshing hop bitterness. Lovely stuff.

Cask @ quite a few pubs in Inverness these days (woo!!). Spent most of my last hogmanay scooping this at Bogbain Farm (£4 a pint *gasp*). Fantastic rye hop aroma, quality reddish body with a slight off-white head round the edge of glass. Grand hoppy taste, delicious. This an excellent offering from Craig Middleton.

Pours a deep hazy murky brown with a one finger off white head. Aroma is pine, grapefruit classic big American IPA aromas. Taste is hoppy fruity, more grapefruit, not much of the malty backbone you usually get with the red style, but the hops are at a good level.

Bottle as warm-up at The Barley Wine Tasting, London. Pours mostly clear, red-gold with a frothy, off-white head. Light tangy rye nose, some pine and berries. Light to medium sweet flavor with moderate earth and pine, dirt, some ripe orange. Light to medium bodied with fine carbonation. Mild resinous finish with light tangy pine, rye grains, toasty sugars. Very nice.

Cask at the Cask, Pimlico - 20/11/12. Lightly hazed chestnut brown with reddish hues and a thin bubbly off white head. Nose is big pine, hops, caramel, some sugar and fruit tones. Taste is big and piney up front, hops, caramel malts. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, bitter piney finish. Not many words for this one but it’s a more than decent drop!

Cask @ Craft Beer Co, Islington N1. Pours a dark amber reddish color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty hoppy weak piney aroma. Fruity malty hoppy flavor with weak piney hints. Has a fruity malty hoppy piney finish.

Cask. Pours a deep copper, with a white head. Off-dry, medium bodied, medium to high bitterness, balanced CO2. Hoppy, spicy taste, caramel, grape, yeast, chocolate, resin, apricot. The rye malt adds a nice balanced acidity to it. Really nice. (2012-11-22)

cask-retaining offwhite bubbles-copper. A-resin, sweet medium malt. T-soft resin hops, sweet medium malt-caramel.

Cask at Craft Beer Co, Islington, London. An amber/red coloured pour with a small off white head on top. Fruity, hoppy aroma. Tastes fruity, malty, slightly dry. Couldn’t really detect the rye, unusual but also quite drinkable.