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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5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 5
Süffiger, etwas pappiger Beginn. Bitter-metallerner Hintergrund, cremig, dünner Körper. Trocken, minimal Kakao, mittellanger Nachhall. 10/8/11/8/9/8
Tried on 08 Oct 2018 at 18:10

1/10
Backlog
Tried on 03 Sep 2018 at 08:43

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
bottle bb1/5/19 cereale note astringente buona lupolatura non fragrante buona secchezza note tanniche
Tried from Bottle on 19 Aug 2018 at 22:57

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
33 cl bottle @ home, BBE 13.04.2019 Aroma has pot coffee, sweet corn, malt and hints of butter. Flavour has odd tobacco notes, sweet corn, butter and some pot coffee. Rather weird, like the sweet malt typical to alcoholfree beers tried to push trough but got stopped by the ashy tobacco tones. Still one of the best alcoholfree beers I’ve had. Kind of sad, that is.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Aug 2018 at 16:06

4.5/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 2 Overall 6
Fles gedeelt door Roelzie1986, thuis geprobeerd. Het is is een helder donkerbruin bier met weinig schuim. Het heeft een koffie achtige geur, licht rokerig. De smaak is zacht, zoetig, chocolade, melkachtig en wat slap.
Tried on 08 Aug 2018 at 16:20

5.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Bottle from Tebay services. Black colour with a tan head. Chocolate and coffee aroma. Taste bitter. Thin body.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Aug 2018 at 23:00

7.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
33 cl bottle from Appie @ home. Black color. Small beige head with no retention. Aroma's: hard roasted malts, umami (at first), ground coffee, red fruit, roasted grain. Retronasal: sweetish, roasted, coffee, fruity. Flavor of sweetish roasted grain, some chocolate and coffee. Light bodied, somewhat thin. A bit roasty bitter finish. Surprisingly good.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Aug 2018 at 20:16

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle. Black pour. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malt, licorice and caramel. Smells just like a normal stout. Taste has caramelised malt with some roast, chocolate, licorice, sweet coffee and mocha. Body is a bit thin, but otherwise this passes as a 4 or 5% stout, impressive.
Tried from Bottle on 30 Jul 2018 at 21:09

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle. Golden pour. Aroma of bready malt, citrus and orange. Taste of bready malt, orange, citrus, caramel and some herbal hop. Quite nice, this could pass as a normal apa.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Jul 2018 at 22:34

4/10
Tried from Bottle on 27 Jul 2018 at 23:45