Ballast Point Brewing Company
Commercial Brewery
in San Diego,
California,
United States 🇺🇸
Owned by
King's & Convicts Brewing Company
Associated with 6 Venues
Established in 1996
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Draught. Poured dark w/minor head. Hoppy aroma, pretty standard. Not bad though.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Draught. Poured a deep brown. Malt aromas. A very alcoholic beastly creature.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught from ginger manhattan. Think this is way better thabits rating indicates. A dry stout with serious character.
Maverick (5074) reviewed Big Eye from Ballast Point Brewing Company 9 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught from Blind Tiger. Poured a light brown with mild head. Nice aromas of hops toffee and such. Very good in the end.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft at ginger man. It was a light brown. Sessionable. Nice maltiness and some hops.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 8
Can. An unclear dark golden beer with a white head. The aroma has notes of over ripe fruits, lemons, pine needles, hops, malt, and a bit of caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of over ripe fruit, lemons, spices, pine needles, hops, and malt, leading to a bitter finish. 8/1/8/3/16
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Old rating from 21-12-14 - 355ml bottle, pours red-brown with a off white good sized head. Aromas & tastes of caramel, banana, bread, grain, flora, hints of spices & malt. Medium body. Mildly bitter finish
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle (2017) at home. Opaque pitch black color, small off-white to beige head that diminishes quickly. Aroma is malts, chocolate is dominant up front, with cocoa powder and vanilla shortly thereafter. Flavor is malts, cocoa, vanilla, malt bitter. After that comes bourbon, liquor bitterness. Medium body, a bit thin texture but at the same time very oily, average to medium carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Very dark brown color. Not much head. Aroma is a chocolately, mocha smell with slight under tones of roasted grain. Taste is also chocolate and mocha and toasted but not burnt.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Very dark brown almost black. Aroma was burnt toast and coffee. Taste was just way too bitter. Burnt grain bitter up front with a hoppy bitter finish.