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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5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Can at home for style ticking. Dark black pour. Nose is toasty pumpernickel and soot. Tastes of ashtray, cocoa power, pumpernickel toast, cardboard. Thin bodied.

Tried from Can on 07 Jan 2023 at 23:56


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

A quite fine and decent low alcohol brown ale Deep brown pour and an ok head Ok intensity in the aroma Off course a bit thin. But absolutely ok Bready, roast, nutty, mild wort and some chocolate in the flavor [Bottle from Varnaveien in Rygge, Norway]

Tried from Bottle on 14 Nov 2022 at 20:38


20/01/2020. BEERCRAFT OF BATH, 3 Argyle Street, BATH, Bath & North East Somerset, England (BEERCRAFT OF BATH).
No mention of Paradiso on the pump clip at this date (see photo)

Tried on 10 Nov 2022 at 06:18


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Black with lacy head. Aroma has some rubber and dusty dank malts. Flavour is decent with a lightly bitter, almost smokey roasted note. A bit thinnish.

Tried on 01 Nov 2022 at 19:41


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Lots of light citrus make it very smashable.

Tried on 30 Oct 2022 at 02:57


5

To be honest, that’s not bad for a non alcoholic beer!

Tried from Can on 10 Oct 2022 at 21:57


3.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

Can 33 cl. ours a clear amber with an off-white head. Sweet wort aroma, a little metallic. Light body, thin and watery and quite fizzy. Faint sweetess and next to no bitternes. Inoffensive though. 070922

Tried from Can on 07 Sep 2022 at 13:01


3.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

Can 33 cl. Pours a clear golden with a white head. Somewhat citrusy nose, bit also a greasy, unclean note. Light body, odd wort feel - not really all that sweet though, or also it's all smothered in the fairly prominent hoppiness. Somewhat drinkable, if you really have to. 060922

Tried from Can on 06 Sep 2022 at 13:54


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Can 33 cl. Pours a clear golden with a white head. Some citrusy aroma notes - a little greasy perhaps - blending on with sweet wort. Light body, a fruity driness - wort notes have completely vanished. Bitter finish. This is actually decent for the style. 010922

Tried from Can on 01 Sep 2022 at 14:48


1.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1

Can 33 cl. Pours a clear, dark brown with an orangey/reddish hue and a small, rough, off-white head. Nose is.....close to nasty. Mostly like old, stale sewage. Light body, slight roast, sweet wort and some of the same characteristics as in the aroma. No bitterness. This is deeply unleasant. 310822

Tried from Can on 31 Aug 2022 at 15:07