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Proud Early Bird of Craft Beer - The Big Rock Story
17,000 years ago, a glacier carried a huge rock onto the Alberta prairies where none like it had been before. This "big rock" is the glacial erratic we take our name from, as no doubt, our founder's notion of creating a craft brewery in 1985 was a bit erratic at the time.
The rooster represents our early arrival as craft brewers. It's also a bit of a nod to the "cock of the walk" bravura that Ed McNally had when he started Big Rock Brewery.
We craft our beer with our brewmasters’ skill and imagination, utilizing local ingredients and innovative processes, all rooted in Ed McNally's original passion for excellence and in doing things differently and better.
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Robinvboyer (8190) reviewed
Cashmere Crooner from Big Rock Brewery
1 year ago
3.9/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 6 Overall 3.5
473ml can. Clear yellow pour, with a small white head. Aroma is very papery, musty, and hints of apples. Wet paper, light grass, lots if musty apples. Wow this is rough.
Tried from Can on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:27
Robinvboyer (8190) reviewed
Citradelic Single Hop IPA from Big Rock Brewery
1 year ago
4.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 6 Overall 3.5
Dark amber pour, small off white head. Aroma is very faint. Sweet, earthy hops. Light pine resin, wet paper and musty earthy soil. This is very disappointing, but no surprising. Mouth feel, and carb are good. Finish is sweet, very bready, and malty. More earthy hops, hints of pine resins, and more wet musty ingredients. Not very good at all... How did they manage to take a super bright, citrusy, grapefruit bomb of a hop style, and make a murky, earthy, sweet, and malty amber ale?
Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:24
Robinvboyer (8190) reviewed
Rhine Stone Cowboy Kolsch from Big Rock Brewery
1 year ago
3.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 2 Texture 4 Overall 4
Pale malts, light grasses, apples, musty wet paper. Thin mouth feel, soft carb. Low bitterness, more wet paper, and sour apples. Jesus this is awful.
Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:10
Robinvboyer (8190) reviewed
Pilsner from Big Rock Brewery
1 year ago
3.2/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3
473ml cans. Clear golden pour, with a medium white head. Musty grain aroma, with hints of apple, and wet paper. Mouth feel is nice, carb is very soft. Finish is musty, wet cereals, no hops. Not good.
Tried from Can on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:59
Robinvboyer (8190) reviewed
Alberta Genuine Draft from Big Rock Brewery
1 year ago
2.2/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 2 Flavor 2 Texture 4 Overall 1
Big rock, keeping up their mediocrity. This is brewed for the masses. Light corny, vegetal aroma, no hops, very little grains. Needs to be served ice cold, cause you might get a bit of actual taste. God knows we cant have our beer taste like anything, i just want some straight easy drinking nothing to get me smashed! Thank god for the no aftertaste.
Tried from Can on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:40
Robinvboyer (8190) reviewed
Honey Brown Lager from Big Rock Brewery
1 year ago
4.1/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 4 Texture 6 Overall 3.5
On tap. Boat loads of mollasses malt and slightly roasted grains. Quite syrupy and thick. Lots of cheap grains, this tastes almost like an extract homebrew beer.
Tried from Draft on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:21
Robinvboyer (8190) reviewed
Session IPA (India Pale Ale) from Big Rock Brewery
1 year ago
3.1/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 0.5
Golden pour quckly dispating head. Aroma of cheap macro malts and a hint of cheap hops might even be extract. Flavor is slightly corny and there is a sweet caramel flavor associated with the malt and the hop completely disapear. This is a boring runof the mill macro ale.
Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:21
Robinvboyer (8190) reviewed
Winter Spice Ale from Big Rock Brewery
1 year ago
4.8/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
clear amber pour witha quickly fading head. Aroma of gingerbread, tocuhes of cinnamon, and a nutmeg. Flavor is quite sweet, and a touch cloying. More ginger notes, and cinnamon, but next to no hops, and very little malt. Kinda like a cookie in a glass, but not really beer. meh.
Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:08
Robinvboyer (8190) reviewed
Espresso Stout from Big Rock Brewery
1 year ago
5.5/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 6
bottle from mgermani.
aroma is nice. lots of coffee, and some nice chocolate, with a touch of roasty malt. flavour is wattery. i find it quite thin, the flavour does not live up tothe aroma.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:02
Robinvboyer (8190) reviewed
Warthog English Style Mild Ale from Big Rock Brewery
1 year ago
5.2/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
I can’t believe i haven’t rated this before! i used to drink on a semi regular basis. Its a pretty middle of the road, maybe even sub par brown ale. Wattery, and thin like most fo the Big Rock beers, some slight malt notes, and a touch of roast, but meh, pretty boring.
Tried from Can on 27 Feb 2025 at 09:30