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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6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can at home. Pours clear amber, nose is malty toffee, biscuity, pine, taste is similar, floral. --- Beer merged from original tick of Tailwind on 19 Aug 2021 at 17:07 - Score: 6
Tried from Can on 19 Aug 2021 at 16:07

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can at home. Pours clear golden, nose is yoghurt funk, lemon and lime, toffee, grass, taste is similar, sharp and zesty.
Tried from Can on 19 Aug 2021 at 16:05

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Can at home. Pours clear amber, nose is toffee, herbs, mango, taste is similar, sweet, some pine.
Tried from Can on 19 Aug 2021 at 16:04

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Can at home. Pours clear golden, nose is toffee, hay, floral, taste is similar, quite sweet.
Tried from Can on 19 Aug 2021 at 16:04

5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle at Cambridge Chop House. Aroma had floral hops, if low key. Light amber. A fee translucent white microbubbles for a head. Piney hops but watered down and doesn't hide the underlying soda and cardboard. Light bodied. Thin. Average prickly carbonation. Dry finish. Some hops have been sprinkled over it but still the usual cardboard AF waste of time. But I am driving.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Aug 2021 at 11:53

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Can at home. Pours clear golden, nose is floral, lemon sherbert, toffee, taste is floral elderflower, chewy toffee, sweet.
Tried from Can on 10 Aug 2021 at 17:07

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Can at home. Pours deep brown, nose is roasted, earthy, coffee, caramel, taste is chewy caramel, malty, roasted.
Tried from Can on 10 Aug 2021 at 17:06

5.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 5
( bottle) clear, bright yellow colour with a medium tall white head; aroma of instant lemon ice tea; dryish flavour with a long, light bitter finish. Not anything I would like to try again.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Aug 2021 at 22:22

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Can at home. Pours clear golden amber, nose is malty toffee, pine, apricot, taste is sweet toffee, bitter, dry, light fruit. --- Beer merged from original tick of Poolside on 08 Aug 2021 at 10:19 - Score: 7
Tried from Can on 08 Aug 2021 at 09:19

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Can at home. Pours black, nose is cream, roasted, chocolate, caramel, taste is bitter, roasted and dry, sweet chocolate, creamy.
Tried from Can on 06 Aug 2021 at 16:08