Bluntrock Alcohol-Free Beers
One Bluntrock beer in our directory: Yop Rock, a 0.5% lager brewed with a yeast-derived aroma product. We haven’t scored it yet.
Bluntrock is a young, independent brewery in Rock, on the north Cornish coast. It makes two alcohol-free beers: Yop Rock, a lager brewed with a yeast-derived aroma product, and Zen, a pale ale.
- Founded: 2021, by George Collins and Hugo Roads (the company was set up in 2019)
- Based: Rock, near Wadebridge, Cornwall
- Company: Bluntrock Brewery Ltd
- Owner: Independent: its two founders
- Alcohol-free beers: Yop Rock, a lager, and Zen, a pale ale, both 0.5%
- Dietary: Vegan friendly, Bluntrock says; not gluten-free
- In the UK: Bluntrock’s own shop and Wise Bartender
Who are Bluntrock?
George Collins and Hugo Roads founded Bluntrock in 2021, the brewery says, and started out brewing in shipping containers in Rock; its newer brewery is about 600 metres from the original. The company was set up in December 2019 as Lowlandsbrewing Ltd and took the Bluntrock name in 2021. It calls itself “a young, independent brewery from Rock, Cornwall”, and says all its beers are vegan friendly and unfiltered.
Is Bluntrock independent?
Yes. Companies House lists its two founders as the people with significant control, each with 25–50% of the shares, and we found no stake by a larger brewer.
The alcohol-free beers
Yop Rock is a 0.5% lager brewed with Yops™, a yeast-derived aroma product developed by EvodiaBio and sold to brewers by Lallemand. Bluntrock says it was the first in the UK to use it, and calls the result “bright, citrusy and darn refreshing”. We used to say Yop Rock was brewed with yuzu and orange peel; Bluntrock names no fruit.
Zen is Bluntrock’s 0.5% pale ale, “dry hopped with Krush™ and Mosaic hops from Yakima Chief” for “orange zest, peach and a hint of pine”, with “a micro dose of a house blend of fermented chilli”, Bluntrock says. It isn’t in our directory yet. Neither beer is gluten-free, and Bluntrock doesn’t publish calorie figures for either.
The Bluntrock beer in our directory
Checked October 2026. Scores are Unhopped ratings out of 10.
Where to buy Bluntrock alcohol-free
Bluntrock’s own shop sells both beers at £3.80 a can, with packs of 6, 12 and 24, and bundles with glasses. On 26 October 2026 Wise Bartender had Yop Rock in stock at £4 a can; that link is an affiliate link. Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender both list Zen, but it was out of stock at both. Wise Bartender’s South West mixed case of 12 includes a Bluntrock beer.
Facts checked against Bluntrock’s website and shop, Companies House, Cornwall CAMRA, the Brewers Journal, Dry Drinker and Wise Bartender, October 2026.
Bluntrock Beers in Our Directory
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