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.
5.4/10
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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
4.6/10
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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
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
At SBWF 2019. Golden with a small white head. Aroma and taste of light hops, citrus and some grapefruit. Light and not a favourite.
Tried
on 27 Sep 2019
at 06:44
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
At SBWF 2019. Dark brown with a minimal head. Sweet with chocolate, dark malt and some caramel. The body was light and the finish quite short.
Tried
on 27 Sep 2019
at 06:35
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottle. Almost black. Malt, roast and lactose in the aroma. Malty sweet, soft roast and milky flavor. Lactose. Full bodied. You won’t miss the alcohol. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 08:41
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From tap. Pours hazy yellow with asmal white head. Aromis fruity. Crisp hoppy. Bitter and smooth fruity finish. Dry and crisp hoppy finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Aug 2019
at 09:34
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
From tap. Pours cloudy yellow witha small white head. Aroma is fruity, flat cornish to toasted malty. Bitter and slight herbal. Dry malty finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Aug 2019
at 09:33
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
33 cl bottle. Pours dark brown to black. Small tanhead. Aroma is roasted dark malty. Bitter, breadish. Roasted dark malt. Lingering dark malty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Aug 2019
at 09:20
4.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle from the Grumpy Goat, Reading. My first from this brewery. Pale amber, no head and a barely-there fizz. Sweetcorn, corn flakes, lemon and lime squash, tap water and a hint of ginger powder. Mainly sweet with a touch of tartness and some dryness in the finish. Quite thin. There's some interest here, but there's just too much of a corn taste for it to be enjoyable. I'd heard good things about this brewery, which made this beer doubly disappointing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2019
at 08:35
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Can from SB 2019-07-26 Bohus-Malmön AR: sweet lactose chocolate AP: dark brown, no head F: sweet lactose chocolate
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jul 2019
at 10:13