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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2/10
Tried on 04 May 2019 at 10:23

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 4
Fles gedeelt door Roelzie1986. Het is een goudgeel bier met een volle witte schuimkraag. Het heeft een hoppige wat frisse geur. De smaak is hoppig en wat citrus achtig. Vreemde bitter metaalachtige smaak.
Tried on 17 Apr 2019 at 19:15

4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
Bottle 330ml. @ home.[ As Big Drop Lager ].Clear light to medium yellow colour with a average, open and frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, sweet malt - cookie, grain, cereal, butterscotch notes, light cardboard. Flavor is light moderate sweet with a average duration, sweet malt, corn, cookie, sugary, cereal. Body is light to medium, texture is watery, carbonation is soft. [20190412] 4-2-4-2-7
Tried from Bottle on 15 Apr 2019 at 13:59

5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Bottle at home split with Sarah. A dark brown coloured pour with a loose tan head. Aroma is a mix of woody roast, bark, hazelnut, and light ash. Flavour is composed of sweet watery roast, chalk, hazelnut, stale coffee. Palate is thin, watery, moderate carbonation, some lactose milky sweetness.
Tried from Bottle on 14 Apr 2019 at 16:36

4/10
Tried on 12 Apr 2019 at 15:10

6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
330ml bottle. Pours black with a beige head. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, roast. Taste is chocolatey, bitter roast malts, coffee, vanilla, bit of a metallic-y finish unfortunately. Light body, soft carbonation. Not massively enjoyable, however for a non alcoholic beer it's decent.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Apr 2019 at 01:45

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
330ml bottle. Pours black-brown in colour with a biege foam head that dissipates away and aroma of roast malt, meaty, chocolate & coffee. Taste is roasty malt, ash, powdered chocolate, vanilla, coffee and earthy bitterness. Thin mouthfeel, light bodied, soft carbonation, dry roasty finish. Quite OK for the low abv
Tried from Bottle on 16 Mar 2019 at 18:37

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6
330ml bottle. Chestnut brown colour, tan foam head leaving alittle lacing and aroma of swampy roasted malt. Taste is roasted malty, milky, cream, chocolate, coffee with some ashy earthy light bitterness. Thin bodied, soft carbonation, dry roasted finish. OK.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Mar 2019 at 18:49

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6
06/03/2019 @home - 33cl bottle from AH Ronse. Clear dark brown, small tanned head. Nose is roast, bit coffee, milk chocolate. Taste is thin roast, milk chocolate, wattery roasted ending. Not worse than a lot of 5% ABV stouts so not bad at all in that way.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Mar 2019 at 14:57

5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
Bottle from Systembolaget. Clear golden with white head. Grainy with a bit of artificial lemon, cardboard, perfume and grass. Slightly skunky. Ok.
Tried from Bottle on 02 Mar 2019 at 15:13