Big Rig Brewery

Microbrewery in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated with 4 Venues

Established in 2012

Contact
103 Schneider Road, Ottawa, K2K 1Y3, Canada
Description
Founded in 2012, Big Rig Brewery began on a modest 10 barrel system. Today, Big Rig is the largest craft brewery in our Nation’s Capital.

Doing it all for the love of beer has led to New Brewery of the Year in Ontario (2013) and multiple awards at the Canadian and Ontario Brewing Awards.

Dedicated to pure craftsmanship and using only the best quality ingredients, Big Rig Brewery takes great pride in reinventing classic styles and crafting emerging ones.

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5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

On tap at Big Rig, pours a clear golden with a small beige head. Aroma reveals plenty of piney hops, a bit of earthiness, and biscuity malt. Flavour is piney and earthy in the hop department, with a herbal—almost vegetal—character is there too that isn't so pleasant. Fairly dry, but the hop expression just isn't there.

Tried from Draft on 13 Aug 2021 at 21:03


3.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3

On tap at Big Rig, pours a cloudy bright red with a small off-pink head. Aroma is full of fresh mint upfront, followed by a touch of red berry. Flavour is quite nasty, with lots of fresh mint and gentle red berry, with a lightly yogurty palate. I dislike mint, and it doesn't jive with the berry, and the lacto base isn't great. Awful.

Tried from Draft on 13 Aug 2021 at 20:58


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

On tap at Big Rig, pours a cloudy bright yellow with a small white head. Nose has a fair bit of dankness for a session, with dank hops, some weedy grassiness, and biscuity malt. Flavour is less assertive, with weedy, dank hops, soft floral notes, and sweet biscuity malt. Awkward balance, with the dank hops being gobbled up immediately by the sweet malt. Not bad, but it leaves much to be desired.

Tried from Draft on 13 Aug 2021 at 20:55


4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

On tap at Big Rig, pours a clear pale yellow with a small white head. Nose is on the floral side for a pils, with biscuity malt and only a touch of grass — seems under-hopped. Flavour confirms this, with lots of sweet bready malt dominating. There's barely any hops here, and there's little bite / crispness. Pretty underwhelming, albeit inoffensive.

Tried from Draft on 13 Aug 2021 at 20:53


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

On tap at Big Rig, pours a clear pale golden blonde with a small white head. Aroma is quite herbaceous, with grass, some slightly vegetal notes, and biscuity malt. Flavour is clean and crisp, with vegetal and herbal notes, sweet cereal, and biscuity malt. Cheap and not authentic, but not entirely offensive.

Tried from Draft on 13 Aug 2021 at 20:50


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Can that pours a hazy, bright yellow colour with a big fluffy-bubbly white cap, good stay and leaving some nice foamy dirty lacing. Refreshing mouthfeel with a nice mild dry finish. Some decent hops in here blending well. The aromas has a beautiful nose of balanced hops giving some juiciness, citrus, floral-grassy notes and hints of sweetness. A pretty good Session IPA. that gets even better at the last pour.
Earlier Rating: 9/22/2020 Total Score: 3.5
Can that pours a hazy bright-yellow with foamy off-white head, decent stay and some light soapy patches. Grassy hop nose with some citrus lemon zest notes coming out eventually. Wet mouthfeel with a little dryness in the end. Flavours show a little more citrus over the grassy feel. Hints of cilantro. Quite a nice dry-hopped Session IPA.

Tried from Can on 31 Jul 2021 at 03:35


4.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

This pils poured a clear, yellow colour with a creamy, white head. Minimal lacing. Scents include corn and perm solution. First swig was thin, tasted of corn and malt. Slightly sweet with nothing but corn lingering.

Tried on 08 Jan 2021 at 00:07


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can from the LCBO. Cloudy pale amber with a lingering one-finger white head that leaves some patchy lace. Nose is bread, light citrus and a prominent grass and herbal character. Light sweet malt under a medium citrus and grass bitterness. Mouth is medium- with slightly soft carbonation and relatively dry finish. Citra doesn't generate the usual juiciness here. 7/3+/6/3/13

Tried from Can on 16 Jul 2020 at 01:33


7

A deep dark ale with a thin off white head. In aroma, sweet fruity caramel malt with candy sugar, alcohol warmth, very nice. In mouth, a nice tart mix of ground cherry, light lactic and Epsom, strawberry jam, very nice. Bottle from brewery.

Tried from Can on 11 Jul 2020 at 01:15


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Can sample at a tasting at Max's place. Thanks Max. Black. Roast, chocolate, caramel, sweetish, milk, faint bitterness. Decent.

Tried from Can on 05 Jul 2020 at 11:40