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.
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.
6.6/10
Tried
on 24 Jan 2021
at 22:05
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2021
at 19:22
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from the brewery online shop. Pours clear cola-brown with a thin off-white head. Aromas of light cocoa and hazelnut. Taste is sweet, light spice, more cocoa. Slightly thin finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2021
at 16:49
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from the brewery online shop. Pours clear golden with a thin ring of white head. Aromas of grassy hops, grain, light citrus. taste has a whack of bitterness with no real malt to balance. Watery and bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2021
at 20:53
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Can from the brewery online shop. Pours clear amber with a thin white head. Aromas of grain, light cardboard, light orange. Taste is watery, light grains, light orange again. Thin finish. Not very lager-y.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Jan 2021
at 20:51
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up from Clapton Craft. Pours clear reddish brown with a small, fading off-white head. Light to medium sweet flavour, vague roast, cocoa, a few dark berries, toasted brown bread, hints of earth and tobacco ash. Light bodied with delicate carbonation. Finishes with more earth, dry cocoa, ash. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2021
at 17:47
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from the brewery online shop. Pours black with a thin tan head. Aromas of milk chocolate and honeycomb. Taste is sweet chocolate. Good body. Sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2021
at 07:26
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from the brewery online shop. Pours clear pale gold with a thin white head. Aromas of light citrus and grain. Tater is grainy and bitter. Thin, bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2021
at 07:25
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from the brewery online shop. Pours clear golden with a thin white head. Aromas of mango, pine, citrus. Taste is light bitter, light saline. Bitter finish. One of the best LA beers I've had.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2021
at 07:22
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can at home in Hackney - picked up from Clapton Craft. Pours perfectly clear gold with a small, frothy white head. Certainly one of the better low/NA beers I have had. Lightly sweet with pleasant piney accents, pithy citrus, light rindy bitterness, sligth minerality, background pale bread. Light bodied with fine to average carbonation. Subtle resin in the finish, pithy tangerine and lemon. A little pine and grass in the aftertaste. Very drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jan 2021
at 17:08