Big Rock Brewery
Regional Brewery
in
Calgary,
Alberta,
Canada 🇨🇦
Associated with 3 Venues
Established in 1985
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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.
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.
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 7
Nice looking beer. Deep amber,lasting off white head. Small bead.Light hop nose. Malt flavor with too few finishing hops
Tried
on 08 Jan 2003
at 13:45
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 5.5
Pale Amber,off white head. Dry hop nose. Rather bland light hop flavor......
Tried
on 07 Jan 2003
at 14:01
5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Amber with thin white fast fading head.Large bead. Corny,grainy nose. Corn and malt flavor,very few hops, certainly not an IPA
Tried
on 01 Jan 2003
at 14:25
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Light malt nose and flavor with very little hops. A session beer............
Tried
on 19 Dec 2002
at 08:59
3.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
This is about as close to mainstream lager a microbrewery can get...........
Tried
from Can
on 19 Dec 2002
at 08:57
4.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
really didn''t care for this one. Not much to recommend itself..............
Tried
on 19 Dec 2002
at 08:55
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Golden color, fast fading white head. Light in body and taste, although you can detect the Big Rock signature yeast. Not one of the best from this Brewery
Tried
from Can
on 19 Dec 2002
at 08:54
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Good lightly roasted malt nose. I expected the flavor to be similar, but it was rather thin and weak. Nose promises more the the flavor delivers
Tried
on 19 Dec 2002
at 08:51
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
The decent malt nose promises more then it delivers in the taste, which is smooth and mellow.
Tried
on 16 Dec 2002
at 14:20
3.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 4
Hazy deep gold color with fast fading head. Yeasty rye flavor. Slightly more body than a wheat
Tried
on 12 Dec 2002
at 07:57