Big Smoke Brew Co.

Microbrewery in Esher, Surrey, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Associated with 7 Venues

Established in 2014

Contact
Unit D3, Sandown Industrial Estate, Esher, KT10 8BL, England
Description
We are a young brewery and pub company producing modern beer styles in the leafy suburbs of Esher in Surrey. We brew hop forward pales, rich stouts and everything in between.

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

Gravicask på Twickenham Beer and Cider Festival 2019. Delt med Rune. Gylden. Nesten klar. Filmskum. Ferskenaroma. Smaken litt tynn. Mest plommer. Lett tørr avslutning.

Tried from Cask on 24 Oct 2019 at 14:20


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

A colleague who subscribes to Beer 52 kindly gave me this as he knew I was ticking off Surrey beers - to be fair he benefitted from a Pohjala beer in return. Sweet chocolate aroma. Dark and glossy. Foamy beige head soon shrinks away. Medium bitter coffee with a hoppy edge. Underlying creamy sweetness. Light-medium bodied. Slick. Average-fizzy carbonation. Dry slightly astringent finish. Nice porter with a bitter bite.

Tried on 23 Oct 2019 at 19:13


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

330mml. can @«home», 17/10/2019. Hazy ruby colour with a pinkish head. Good retention. Aroma is soft blueberry and vanilla. Taste is watery blueberry. Fizzy. Meeeehhh...at least Surrey is a new county for me Next one please!

Tried from Can on 17 Oct 2019 at 21:08


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

Can from Garsons Farm Shop. Low key citrus aroma. Some spice. Pours thin. Hazy pale orange. Thin translucent white head has a brief burst of life before retreating. Initially quite a low key sour before this increases in strength alongside quinine bitterness. It's all a bit unbalanced and I am not keen on this. Light bodied. Slick. Prickly fizzy carbonation. Dry slightly astringent. For me this falls short.

Tried from Can on 09 Oct 2019 at 19:02


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

330ml can: poured into an 'Old Speckled Hen' vase shaped pint glass at home on 9th Oct 2019. Hazy yellow body, white head with lacing. The nose is both tropical fruit hoppy and piney hop in nature, the taste similar with the malts playing second fiddle to the hop content.

Tried from Can on 09 Oct 2019 at 17:42


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

330ml can: BB 12th Jul 2020. Poured into an Augustijn chalice at home on 5th Oct 2019. Lovely dark body, beige topping. Chocolate all the way here, dark, rich chocolate with a slight coffee grains bitterness for balance. Smooth and easy to drink, very pleasant all round.

Tried from Can on 05 Oct 2019 at 18:53


6

Tried from Draft on 28 Sep 2019 at 14:25


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Cask at the Oxford Tavern, Kentish Town on 17th September 2019. Slightly hazy amber with shallow foam and spot lacing. Sweet malt aroma. Fruity and grassy in-mouth, and a bitter, grassy hop finish. A zingy mouthfeel and a fair amount of body.

Tried from Cask on 17 Sep 2019 at 18:22


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Cask at the Lyric. Nice lemony hops, minerals very refreshing. Real ale yeastiness. Nice.

Tried from Cask on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:05


6.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask at GBBF: Poured a brown with tan head. Aroma is sweet chocolate and malts. Taste is sweet malty.

Tried from Cask on 18 Aug 2019 at 18:51