Big Rock Lime

Brewed by Big Rock Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Calgary, Canada

Serve in Flute

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So I sampled this out of a can, mistake #1. I though a once reputable brewery would have some pride in what they did and wouldn’t copy a terrible marketing ploy by one of the big companies... Mistake #2. Tasting this beer... Mistake #3. I honestly didn’t think that it was possible to make a lime beer worse than bud light lime. This smelled at first like XO lager (which I really don’t like). Some grassy hops and their terrible strain of yeast, yuck. Then I swirled the glass and I got some rank, sour, putrid dry lime smell. The taste is well, nasty. Watery lime juice with a grassy bitter note that does not fit in this "style". Gross. I’m saddened that I have to bump BLL for this nasty bastardization of beer. Ed, what happened???

I was at The Joyce on 4th and the waitress told us about the new Big Rock beer. We spit a bottle at happy hour price between 4 glasses. Less fizzy than Bud Light Lime and with a stronger lime flavour. Very pale. So we end up with a paler, less fizzy soda water and stronger lime. I found a number of press releases with varying descriptions going back to Ed McNally importing tequila to Alberta while working for the Mexican government.