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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7

33cl bottle. A black beer with a beige head. Aroma of roasted dark malt, chocolate and coffee. Taste of sweet roasted dark malt, chocolate, cookies. Quite nice!

Tried from Bottle on 05 Dec 2019 at 19:48


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle.Black colour with small beige head.Aroma of soya sauce and caramel feels a bit dusty with hint of earth and caramel.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Dec 2019 at 12:04


5.8
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Typical low-alcohol IPA - not as bad as the non-alcoholic pilsners, but nowhere near as good as a glass of water.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Nov 2019 at 16:51


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Keg at BD Sheps Boost, 18/10/19. Light black with a modest tan cap that dissipates to edgework. Nose is nutty, chocolate, toffee, biscuit, brown sugars. Taste comprises Bourbon biscuit, sugar dusting, brown bread, toffee. Light in body but not watery at all, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Solid for the ABV.

Tried on 03 Nov 2019 at 08:55


7

Given the percentage, very impressive. Otherwise, all Nutella, one-note

Tried on 23 Oct 2019 at 17:53


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Keg at brewdog Edinburgh colab fest 2019... Dark black.. Thin tan lacing.. Soft nutty chocolates roast malts nose.. Dark roast.. Heavy chocolate.. Little tjin but only just... Dark chocolate roast malts... Big nutty chocolates

Tried on 21 Oct 2019 at 18:23



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

Keg at the Griffin.. Light Amber... Thin white lacing.. Soft sweet toffee orange fruits nose.. Sweet caramel.. Light crystal bitter fruits.. Light woody bitter malts

Tried on 14 Oct 2019 at 14:33


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

Almost clear deep brown, beige head. Smells of deep caramelized sugars, slighlty burnt and ashy, a little smoky. The flavour is not bad - a rather nice dark sugar / light roast / earhy leafy bitterness. Of course the lack of alcohol is hard to hide - that makes the malts feel like sugars dilluted in water. Still, a rather different non-alcoholic beer, both flavour wise and also being free from the usual shortcomings of non-alco pale lagers.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Oct 2019 at 11:39


4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

At SBWF 2019. Dark brown with a small head. Sweet with caramel, some malt and fruit. Thin and boring.

Tried on 27 Sep 2019 at 06:46