Big Rock Traditional Ale

Brewed by Big Rock Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Calgary, Canada

Medium amber color, off white head. Malty nose. Mild flavor, mainly malt, very little in the way of hops. Light to medium body. Decent.

Clear dark amber-brown. Finger of light tan foam. Fruity aroma. Light body. Straight forward fruity & mildly malty (caramel, brown sugar) flavour. Uninspiring.

smell is very unpleasent. appearance is very nice. average flavor. pleasent palate. overall a decent beer, worth a buy just to try somewthing new.

Grew up with this brew only to realize later on that there is far too much yeasty aftertaste. Pleasant colour gets it a few extra points.

On draft in Vancouver while the rest of the town watched fireworks. Another example of a disappointing Canadian microbrew.

decent malt then bit of hopbitterness and aftertaste. Medium texture and watery. Rather bland. Not much hops. Canadian relying on balance. Water and sugar. Slight fizz and yeast mid-sip.

Pours red with a white pillowy head. Nutty caramel malty nose. Lots of malt flavours. Cookies and burnt notes. Some mild hoppy bitters. Somewhat unbalanced but it tasted good. Worth a try.

Had this on tap in many Calgary and Edmonton pubs...flows like water here as BR has sewed up the draft market locally. Tapped a crystal clear darker amber, slight white cap that doesn’t last long. Slight hints of citrusy hop and grassy boiled grains in the aroma. Starts light and rather weak for an ale but then the fuller body kicks in with the well balanced hop and malt departure the finish is clean with a lingering "bread" after taste. As commercial Canuck ales go this is probably the best of the lot but still lacking. It’s another attempt to "Canadianize" a traditional ale style for the mass market....it is always a compromise....but as the compromises go this one has retained a modicum of ale character to make it king of the commercial ales.