NEWS HERITAGE JOBS HOME BEERS PUBS EVENTS TOURS SHOP TRADE HOME / NEWS / LATEST NEWS / BREWER’S NOTES: PINT OF PLAIN BREWER’S NOTES: PINT OF PLAIN Monday 22nd November 2021 by Jess "PINT OF PLAIN", OUR COLLABORATION BEER WITH WILD CARD BREWERY, IS NOW AVAILABLE IN CASTLE ROCK PUBS AND BEYOND. KEEP READING FOR NOTES STRAIGHT FROM DEVELOPMENTAL BREWER, MATT. PINT OF PLAIN CASTLE ROCK BREWERY X WILD CARD BREWERY Sometimes you just want to keep it simple, and sometimes the old songs are the best. We realised we haven’t brewed you a porter in a long time, which is weird because they are amazing. We love a nice pint of porter, it’s got stacks of flavour and all those beautiful, warmed up crystal and roasted malts smell great on a brew day. Pint of Plain is a collaboration beer brewed here at Castle Rock, with our good friends from Wild Card Brewery. After being looked after so well in London when we brewed Brainwave together in July, we were really excited to get them to Notts to brew with them again. Jaega and Billy came up for the day and got stuck in straight away, digging out the mash tun and helping out with the yeast analysis in our laboratory. As with all our collabs, there was a lot of coffee and plenty of doughnuts, and it was a real treat for us to have them come visit. Our head brewer Jon came up with the recipe through discussion with Wild Card head brewer Jaega. They based it on a classic porter recipe, adding just a touch of smoked malt in the grist to give the beer that old world feel. Maris Otter malt provides a solid foundation of flavour for the crystal, roasted and kilned malts to build on; subtle and understated English hops provide balanced bitterness; and our treasured yeast culture provides subtle, fruity esters, and sees to it that everything marries together during cask conditioning. This beer is only available in pubs, and only in cask. It is super limited and perfect for a winter’s evening by the fireside in a cosy pub, preferably after a hard day’s work delivering goods across cobbled streets, but failing that, after a hard day’s Christmas shopping works too. Malt: Maris Otter, Crystal, Chocolate, Amber, Brown, Roast Barley Smoked malt Hops: Northdown, WGV, Bramling Cross Yeast: Castle Rock House Culture Allergens: Malted barley (gluten) SHARE THE LOVE 0 0 CORE BEERS HARVEST PALE SESSION PRESERVATION SHERWOOD RESERVE ELSIE MO SCREECH OWL EXPLORE MERCHANDISE, BOTTLED BEER & TAKE-OUTS CASTLE ROCK QUARTER ACCREDITATIONS RECENT AWARDS 2018 - Winner - Castle Rock Brewery - Sustainable Tourism Award - Nottinghamshire STARS Hospitality Awards 2018 - Winner – The Canalhouse – Tourism Pub of the Year - Nottinghamshire STARS Hospitality Awards 2018 - Silver - Elsie Mo - Premium Bitters & Pale Ales - SIBA Midlands Beer Competition 2017 - Bronze - Elsie Mo - Premium Bitters & Pale Ales - SIBA Midlands Beer Competition 2017 - Gold - Elsie Mo - Best Bitters - CAMRA East Midlands Champion Beer of Britain 2016 - Gold - Traffic Street #8 Guns of Navarone (Premium Strong Beers) - SIBA Midlands Independent Beer Awards (awarded at) - Birmingham Beer & Cider Festival 2016 - Bronze - Sherwood Reserve (Stouts, Porters, Old Ales, Strong Milds) - SIBA Midlands Independent Beer Awards (awarded at) - Birmingham Beer & Cider Festival 2016 - Gold - Sherwood Reserve (Stouts) - East Midlands Champion Winter Beer (awarded at) - Hinckley and Bosworth Beer Festival SEE ALL AWARDS TO DATE © 2021 Castle Rock Brewery. All rights reserved. Castle Rock Brewery is a trading division of Tynemill Ltd. Reg. Office - Castle Rock Brewery, Queensbridge Road, Nottingham NG2 1NB. Registered in England. Company No: 1211426. TRICK OR TREAT! | Privacy Policy | Cookie Policy Web development by BigSpring Web design by Threerooms Oops, it looks like you still need to set your Shopify API credentials. Please add these within the plugin settings and try again.