Big Rock Traditional Ale

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

Pretty good. I like their Irish better, but this stuff ain’t bad.

This beer is all over the place. I can’t figure out what is wrong with it. It has many good attributes but falls short. It is almost great but has troubles that condemn it to mediocrity.

Mild brown in color with an aroma of mild caramel and some type of spice which I couldn’t put my finger on. The flavor was nice, but disappointingly thin with an amber. On the palate this didn’t improve and left me with a hallow feeling about this beer. The best thing I could say is that is a poor-man’s Newcastle brown.

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

For me, flavor is everything in Big Rock’s products. Nothing fancy about the smell, or apperence. No dreamy aroma’s or magical colour layers. The experience starts once its in my mouth. Rich, full, complex and deep flavors that over various paths to take. Traditonal is earthy goodness that pleases my palate!

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.

went down real good, nice and smooth

bottle: This amber ale tilts towards the dark malt side of things. Very smooth - the hops won’t overwhelm here. Dark copper, thin head. Sweet ale with dark fruit or sugar notes. Not a bitter beer by any stretch. OK for the drinkers frightened by true ales but why would a real ale drinker choose this? Good beer but don’t see the point of this stylle as not many levels of taste here.