Big Rock Brewery

Regional Brewery in Calgary, Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated with 3 Venues

Established in 1985

Contact
5555 76 Ave SE, Calgary, T2C 4L8, Canada
Subsidiaries
Description
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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6.8/10
Tastes quite round and blonde ale-like. But it is clean and crisp and full bodied. Sk co-op variety pack
Tried on 17 Dec 2024 at 00:23

6.8/10
Super clean, but super simple as well, just a very safe beer. Feels like a big brewery neipa. Sk coop
Tried on 16 Dec 2024 at 00:40

4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
Historical (80s/90s) beer collection #67 - no rating
Tried on 09 Sep 2024 at 22:28

3.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 2 Flavor 2 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Poured from the tap @ Wings Burnaby. Clear blonde gold with small white head. Bland corn malt, no effort happy hour lager. Meh.
Tried from Draft on 24 Jun 2024 at 01:33

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
473ml can. Pours a slightly hazy pale gold with a medium, frothy, short lived, off-white head that laces. Sweet aroma of bready wheat malt, caramel, orange, apricot and floral hops. Sweet fruity flavour of grainy wheat malt, grapefruit, lemon, peach, pine and spicy hops in a dry, bitter finish. Light to medium body with an oily texture and average to soft carbonation. Missed the mark a bit. More of a Westie than a NEIPA.
Tried from Can on 14 Jun 2024 at 04:51

6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Opaque gold, medium head. Looks quite good. Aroma has a bit of stone fruit but isn'�t especially bright. Body feels lighter than IPA. Bitterness is moderate. They'�re aiming for a fruity hop expression but it'�s hard to tell since it seems to have taken three months to make the 300m journey from the brewery to Legacy. So you can tell it'�s fruity hops but they are not poppin'� fresh.
Tried from Can on 13 Sep 2023 at 05:02

2.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 2 Flavor 2 Texture 2 Overall 1.5
Poured from the tap @ HUB New West. Clear blonde with minimal white head. Mildly sweet corn malt, but mostly just watery and bland. No hops, so so boring.
Tried from Draft on 25 Jul 2023 at 01:28

3.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3
Citrus tang that cloys on the finish. Golden pour with ok head. Wouldn't want to be locked in the trunk of a car with this beer. Bad aftertaste cloys for a while. Can.
Tried from Can on 26 Mar 2023 at 03:12

6.6/10
Okay-ish beer. Drinkable, but not good. Middling and bland. Sk variety pack
Earlier Rating: 6/29/2016 Total Score: 2.9
Clean beer, mild hoppiness. Not a lot goin’ on though. Nothing special here. Very slightly astringent, i wouldn’t call this a good example of the style even.
Tried on 17 Dec 2022 at 22:50

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Sample at Toronto's Festival of Beer on 07/24/2022.
Tried on 26 Aug 2022 at 14:54