Big Rock Black Amber Ale

Brewed by Big Rock Brewery
Style: Stout
Calgary, Canada

Serve in English pint

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Pretty good, but not the best. It had a great roasted flavor but it seemed a little on the weak side to me. What was there was good, there just wasn’t enough of it.

Black Amber Ale, Dark Alberta Stout--1999 11.5 oz. Bottle. 5.00% ABV. (4.0 / 5.0) Porter? Deep rich clear cherry copper color. Malty aroma light toasted front. Dry malty body with earthy roasted light fruit flavor and spicy notes. Chocolate flavor appears gently and more towards end. Sampled 5/26/1999.

bottle: This brew definately has many characteristics of a stout- dark, tan, head etc. However, it lacks the excitement that comes with watching a good stout cascade. Lots of caramel malts coming through in the flavouring. A little thin to be considered a true stout but a pleasant taste experience nonetheless.

UPDATED: FEB 28, 2005 Beer was a dark brown with a redish hue to it. I found this beer to have a sweet taste to it.

341mL bottle stated 7%ABV on the label poured a deep dark brown color with a thin beige head and very light lacing. Aromas of roasted malts and chocolate and some alcohol. Taste is malty sweet and chocolate with some hop bitterness and alcohol in the finish. The body is a little thin for a stout, but overall, this is a pleasing well balanced brew.

Deep amber colour with a nice head. Nice creamy palate. Quite roasted. Nice and rich. Faint aroma.

[1752-20081003] 341mL bottle. Mildly fruity malt aroma. Hazy, dark brown red-hued body with a long-lasting creamy off-white head. Roasted apple skins and dark malt flavour with mild coffee hints. Medium-full body. Quite drinkable, though a little watered down to something that could have been awesome.
<i>(FOSB 2008 @ C’est What; Toronto, ON)</i>

Make up your mind Big Rock you’re calling this amber ale, and a stout at the same time, and in my opinion it’s really more of a porter. Ebony colored body that easy lets light pass through , a moderate head was produced but didn’t last long, just very bla looking. A sweet fruit punch, combined with coffee and a hint of chocolate, smells very nice and inviting buts it just too mild. The flavor is very nice I’ve never really had any thing like it, coffee combined with sweet chocolate covered cherries, oh man this taste awesome, there are so many other subtle flavors going on in this but I can’t pin point them well enough to describe them. Over all a very tasty complex beer even thought it has bit of an identity crises over what style it wants to be

Roasted malt aroma, dark brown, medium toffee head. Huge roasted malt flavour, nutty with some dried fruit. Hearty, robust, good tongue tingle. Very good amber.

A very unique beer. Not a stout, not an amber, but something in between. The flavors are dark and rich, and all very good. A beer that’s definately worth trying.