Big Rig Bitter
Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Regular|
Score
6.91
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drpimento (5889) reviewed Big Rig Bitter from Deschutes Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Aroma’s very perfumy. Appearance’s a medium clear amber with a long lasting off white head and good lacing. Flavor’s ok, but uninspired.
Bitterbill (4335) reviewed Big Rig Bitter from Deschutes Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Best by November 29th 2016. 22 ounce bottle.
Deep gold colour with 2 fingers of foam. (Served warm)
It has a hoppy malty thing going on in the smell. Bready and caramel malt with a bunch of grass.
Malt, both bread and caramel lead in the taste. Grassy hops in the finish are there to compliment/assist rather than take over the taste profile. It does so pretty brilliantly. Every flavour unites rather than divides.
Nice mouthfeel and man, this is a pleasure to sip on. Kinda reminds me of Old Tankard.
6.00 abv on the label.
Biruski (4767) reviewed Big Rig Bitter from Deschutes Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Copper. Full of juicy fruit notes mixed with medium caramel malts and a little toast. Body is soft with medium carbonation. A hint of citrus in the finish. A very round malt and citrus hop profile. Quite drinkable. Exactly what I would expect to session in a pub.
Anders37 (30391) reviewed Big Rig Bitter from Deschutes Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy golden pale amber orange color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty grassy weak hoppy caramel aroma. Fruity malty spicy caramel hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty grainy grassy caramel finish.
bb (18337) reviewed Big Rig Bitter from Deschutes Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Rich amber beer with a dark cream head. Citrus (lemon and light grapefruit) aroma. Grapefruit flavor. Medium bodied. Grapefruit and balanced malt lingers with light pine.
hawthorne00 (9694) reviewed Big Rig Bitter from Deschutes Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle, 6% ABV. Clear copper with an inch of white head that lasts. Floral and citrus peel dominated aroma with some bread crusts behind. Looks more carbonated than it turns out to be, which is good. Moderately sweet with some peach as well as caught and caramelised bread crusts underneath somewhat bitter marmalade-like grapefruit and Seville orange peel. Really quite dry and fairly bitter at the end. A little too strong, but this has a lot going for it. Someone at Deschutes has had bitter that was snappy rather than brown, bland and twiggy.
Gerbeer (8166) reviewed Big Rig Bitter from Deschutes Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
650 ml bottle. Pours a copper color with light head. Aromas of wet malts, sugary fruit and grass. Flavors of bitter dried fruit, copper and toasted malts with a piney dry finish. OK
crit200 (5311) reviewed Big Rig Bitter from Deschutes Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bright amber,small lasting beige head.Light malt nose is vaguely tinny. Nice balanced palate,sweet fore,balanced mid, medium hop finish. Too much carbonation for style
jake65 (5824) reviewed Big Rig Bitter from Deschutes Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle, nice to see a bomber of PNW brew for $3.19 that’s for sure… finding it amusing that it’s cheaper in Idaho than in Oregon. Pours a golden-bronze color with a large, fluffy off-white head. Lots of sticky lacing. The nose is ESB in nature, floral and citrus bitters and a bit of malty sweetness. Flavor is bitter, but sweet, definitely has the English vibe. For what I was expecting it was spot on and enjoyable.
fiulijn (28444) reviewed Big Rig Bitter from Deschutes Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Tasting at Matt’s; 6% ABV, 46 IBU; bb 07/19/16, batch 1457 9
Hazy golden color. Some caramel and some piney hops aroma. Lean body, smooth mouthfeel; nice bready malts, well compounded by resiny hops, and a British character.
I wouldn’t call it an ESB, but it’s a very enjoyable, balanced British Ale.