Big Rock Traditional Ale

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

2008-07-27, draught at Ship & Anchor, Calgary, 5-3-5-2-9=24
Amber color. Very simple Ale, very light toffee aroma, caramel flavor, not much more to write about.

2008-07-22, can, 4-3-5-2-10=24
Amber color; poor head. Very light aroma. Medium bodied, with some caramel flavor and correct biterness. Drinkable, but too simple.

341 ml bottle as arandom single from LCBO, served cold in a tulip glass.

App.: Clear deep amber with a moderate tan head. Aroma: Nuts and caramel, brown sugar, raisins, an odd vegetal note, a bit of meaty broth, Palate: Medium+ body, moderate carbonation. Flav.: A let down, cardboard a bit of ashen, austere malt, a touch of hops (I’m really digging here...), little else; dry finish with a touch of malt.

Maybe an old bottle, maybe a lousy beer.

tap at Big Rock in Seoul - Pours amber with a very thin white head. It has a nutty caramel malt aroma. The flavor is mostly of lightly toasted malt with some mild hops. It’s medium bodied and pretty enjoyable.

This was one of my first in my quest to drink all that the LCBO had to offer that was out of my ordinary. It was alright. I rate it because I am trying to keep count, over time. Fogive me.

Dark amber pour. Nutty and dirty aroma. Mild hops and nutty flavour. Slightly unpleassant aftertaste. The run of the mill Calgarian micro ale.

341ml bottle. Pours an amber colour with a small white surface film. Aroma: Nuttiness, maybe too much of it, or maybe I’m not huge into nuttiness. Taste: Better than I thought it would be, ok malts followed by tin, followed by caramel and then a nutty flavour that I tend to hate in beers. Weird and unpleasant alcoholic flavour is way too evident. At least I only had to pay $2.00 for this one bottle. Really unremarkable, sorry.

Can. Malts smelled of moderate cookie and nutty, hops of light grass, light dough for the yeast, and toffee and a faint hint of red wine. Head was frothy/fizzy, off-white, with virtually no lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color was sparkling clear brown. Flavor starts moderately acidic and the short finishes is lightly acidic and bitter. Palate is light to medium, watery with a slight creaminess to it, and the carbonation was a little too fizzy. It finishes metalic and lightly astringent. Nice aroma but not much to the flavor, and the can left it’s mark on the finish

Pours a deep red too amber color with a nice offwhite head that doesn’t last too long. Aroma is slighty hoppy and has a nice malty backing, very pleasant. Flavor is very much citrus or grapefruit hops, with a detectable malt backing. Very low carbonation, but not too thin. A nice beer.