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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6/10
Light and hoppy, lemony citrus, a bit piney and bitter. Quite decent.
Tried from Can on 24 Aug 2022 at 19:42

6/10
Light, biscuits and cereal, thin, flat. Tastes pretty good actually but could use some carbonation. Not bad.
Tried from Can on 23 Aug 2022 at 19:47

6.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Taste @London Craft Beer Festival, 13/08/2022. Color amarillo claro, espuma blanca, aromas herbales, sabor cítrico, herbal, cuerpo ligero.
Tried on 16 Aug 2022 at 12:31

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
330ml can. Pours foggy gold with no head. Aroma is piney, citrus, malt. Taste is light sweet, watery, citrus, pine. Long bitter finish. Decent NA, in fact, it’s better than a number of Russian ‘full fat’ APAs I’ve had this year.
Tried from Can on 06 Aug 2022 at 08:10

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
33 cl can @ Hirvihuhta, BBE 15.08.2022 A gusher. Aroma has fruit candy, minerals and toffee. Flaviur had odd plastic vibes, toffee candy, grapefruit. Somewhat resiny. Good, a tad too sweet though
Tried from Can on 21 Jul 2022 at 15:54

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 8
# 3106; 7/2022. Worty, piney, orange aroma. Clear gold body, white head. Light body, grainy, piney, floral. Refreshing. Extremely good alcohol free pale ale. 0,33 l, can, supermarket, Lincoln (Lincolshire, England).
Tried from Can on 11 Jul 2022 at 12:15

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Can at home, golden beer, small to no head. Aroma is malt, citrus, pine, hops, Taste is the same, bitter, pine, resin, hops, citrus, wort. bitter dry aftertaste, quite nice for low abv.
Tried from Can on 08 Jul 2022 at 18:21

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Craft Theory 2022. Given to me by a mate. Aroma smoky and sour milk. Dark. Glossy. Foamy beige head. Cardboard and watery chocolate. Light-medium bodied. Milk. Flat-average prickly carbonation. Long dry finish. Wad given this as a test but could tell from the dampboard that it was AF.
Tried on 02 Jul 2022 at 17:16

5.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Bottle: Poured a golden with a white head. Aroma is malty, piney, citrus, hoppy. Taste is citrus, grassy, malty, wet.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Jun 2022 at 18:18

4.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 2 Overall 4.5
Bottle: Poured a golden with a creamy lacing head. Aroma is grain, grassy, citrus. Taste is grain, malty, light grass.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Jun 2022 at 18:15