Big Drop Brewing Co.

Client Brewer in Ipswich, Suffolk, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Established in 2016

Contact
Registered Office, 46 St Nicholas St, Ipswich, IP1 1TT, England
Description
Big Drop Brewing Co. is a new craft beer company dedicated to making great beer with an ABV of no more than 0.5%.

Big Drop was launched in October 2016 by the-then City lawyer Rob Fink, along with his school-friend/band-mate, designer and entrepreneur, James Kindred. Along with renowned experimental brewer, Johnny Clayton (formerly of Wild Beer Co), they’ve perfected techniques to make alcohol-free craft beer without the need for artificial removal of alcohol.

The 2018 contract with a leading supermarket chain will require Big Drop, which moved production from a small-batch brewer in Bermondsey to Sussex-based own-label specialist Hepworth, to scale up production from 10,000 litres per month to some 40,000 litres.

Production moved to Black Sheep Brewery after a deal was agreed with Keystone Brewing Group, announced December 2024.

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4.4
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 4.5

Can at the Sweet Pea Kitchen, Bradford on Avon. Yellowy-gold with a light fizz and a thin white head thay swiftly fades away. Watery from the off. Sweetcorn and a little lemon. Some nice floral notes in the aftertaste fail to compensate for the sweet, flabby malt and the thin body. It's not horrible, but it certainly needs to be a bit crisper and hoppier to achieve anything.

Tried from Can on 14 Mar 2026 at 13:43


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Decent and ok NA beer.
Quite refreshing and not to thin texture
Pale malt, mild wort, citric and mild lime
[Bottle from Varnaveien in Rygge, Norway]

Tried from Bottle from Varnaveien Mineralvann on 28 Oct 2025 at 11:46


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Ну можно посчитать за ипу. Вроде цитра ощущается, есть прям послевкусие с пыльцой ещё цветочной.

Tried on 06 Jul 2025 at 16:05


5.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 4

Can at home. Igazabol nagyjabol egy faktor van, ami egy NA (ipanal) donto tud lenni: hogy a keseruseg mennyire offneziv azon igyekezet kozepette, hogy a worty edesseget elnyomja. Itt egesz jo a balansz, ahhoz kepest legalabbis, szoval soha rosszabbat.

Tried from Can on 17 Mar 2025 at 11:53


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Nice roast, cocoa nibs, milk chocolate. Very thin mouth feel, light carb. Sweet, roasty finish, soft grassy notes, and hints of coffee.

Tried on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:47


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle from the LCBO. Pours a clear gold, with a medium white head. Aroma is grassy, soft cereals, some wet paper, and light minerals. Not bad actually, i was expecting the worst. The mouth feel is a little thin, but its crisp, and clean. Finish has some light grassy notes, muted cereals, a little mealy. Not bad though, the bar is pretty low for these beers so it doesnt take much to be decent in this category, but i would actually drink this again! nice.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Feb 2025 at 06:26


4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3

Bottle from a local supermarket. Aroma is soft fruity hops with biscuity malt, some citrus, and notes of mineral water. Flavour is fairly bitter, body is nonexistent. Not the most horrible Low Alc.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2025 at 12:19


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle from a local supermarket. Aroma is roasted malt with notes of chocolate and coffee. Bit charred as well. Flavour is light sweet with a roasty bitterness. Body is light and watery. Surprisingly good, one of the better options if you're ever on antibiotics and crave roasted malt.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2025 at 12:19


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle from a local supermarket. Aroma is fairly hoppy with citrus, notes of grapefruit, biscuity malt, grass, hint of wort. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Body is light. Not bad.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2025 at 14:28


7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

33cl can, BB 09/09/2025. Une 'single hop' qui contient tout de même cinq houblons ...
Dorée, léger col blanc crémeux tenace.
Arôme est léger sur les agrumes et ce malgré tous les houblons en présence - je note surtout un côté pomelo - citron, finement herbacé et floral sans pour autant avoir le punch d'une IPA classique contenant les mêmes houblons.
Palais est bien houblonné sans tomber dans l'excès mais sans non plus trop tirer sur l'effet céréales/drêche des bières N/A.
Effete agrumes sur le pomelo, léger pin et résineux avec plus une sensation d'infusion - mais le tout passe bien.

Tried from Can from Malting Pot on 31 Jan 2025 at 12:32