Big Rock Brewery

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

Established in 1985

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5555 76 Ave SE, Calgary, T2C 4L8, Canada
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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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5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
tap at Big Rock in Seoul - Pours mostly clear yellow with a medium sized white head. It has a very light grainy aroma. The flavor is sweet malt with a touch of hops. For some reason I noted that it barely tastes like a wheat beer. This brew is just a light, easily downed beer.
Tried from Draft on 22 Jun 2008 at 11:07

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5
tap at Big Rock in Seoul - Pours amber with a thin head. The aroma is of honey with a trace of malt. It has a sweet honey flavor and not much else. Sub par.
Tried from Draft on 22 Jun 2008 at 11:05

5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
tap at Big Rock in Seoul - Pours amber with a mild caramel malt aroma. It tastes light, sweet, and creamy. It’s a little water. This beer is smooth and easy drinking with some flavor that at least puts it well above your typical macro suds.
Tried from Draft on 22 Jun 2008 at 11:02

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle, 341 ml, savoured at Fairmount Château Lake Louise on November 29 2007; eye: copper with a reddish hue, good effervescence, tiny beige head; nose: caramelized malt, hops; mouth: better than expected, caramelized malt, nice hops, a bit of corn, hops is present throughout the sip, nice finale in caramelized malt with a hint of hops that becomes more present as a result of the carbonation, slightly grainy texture; overall: nice surprise FRANÇAIS Bouteille, 341 ml, 5 %, savourée le 29 novembre 2007 au Fairmount Château Lake Louise; oeil : cuivrée avec une teinte rougeâtre, bonne effervescence, claire, petite mousse beige; nez : malt caramélisé, houblon; bouche : meilleure que mes attentes, malt caramélisé, bon houblon tranchant, petite présence de maïs, houblon présent pendant toute la gorgée, belle finale en malt caramélisé avec une petite pointe de houblon qui devient plus présente grâce à la carbonatation, texture légèrement granuleuse; en résumé : belle surprise
Tried from Bottle on 03 Dec 2007 at 16:22

5.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Pale, dull. Has a medium sweet character, light commercial apple. Pretty simple but for a mainstream cider no off notes and reasonably drinkable.
Tried on 14 Sep 2007 at 23:12

3.4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 3 Texture 2 Overall 3.5
Gold with thin white head.Lighty sweet beery nose. Starts ok the fades to a thin flat nothingness, stale hop finish
Tried on 19 Jun 2007 at 17:35

2.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 2 Texture 2 Overall 2
Woohoo...the once and former World Classic (see 4th edition of Jackson’s Pocket Guide). Golden colour. Doesn’t hold much head in my Grasshopper glass. The aroma is grainy/bready with a strong overtone of that signature Big Rock mushroom/foot character. Soft carbonation is a plus, but it might be the only one. This is very sweet, but not in a full-bodied malty sort of way. This is sweet in the doughy/worty way that non-alcs are. No hops. Saaz? Extra lagering? You cannot dazzle me with bullshit. This beer is poor, a failure amongst even the weak field of "craft" lagers. And what’s with the stewed peaches?
Tried from Can on 01 Jun 2007 at 21:52

2.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 2 Overall 2.5
A light golden lager with a thin white dissipating head. A sweet corney aroma. In mouth, a sweetish concoction, with light hopping, and overall, bland and cloying. Beurk....Bought in Edmonton, Jan. 2007.
Tried on 24 May 2007 at 16:29

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
(Bottle 34,1 cl) Clear, dark, reddish brown with a small, beige head. Aroma of roasted malt and coffee. Fairly light body with roasted malt, coffee and perhaps some chocolate. A dry finish without much bitterness. A bit bland perhaps, but high drinkability. Courtesy of presario. 120207
Tried from Bottle on 18 Feb 2007 at 02:29

3.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 2.5
A pale yellow lager with a thin white head. Pissy aroma with corn adjunct and light sulfur. In mouth, a chalky malt with faint hopping, mineral, a bit oily. Can. Bought in a non descript liquor store on Jasper Ave in Edmonton, for 2.50$....rip-off.
Tried from Can on 15 Feb 2007 at 16:41