Big Rock Traditional Ale

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

Toasted orange-brown colour. Mellow malt aroma, and a nutty/fruity malt flavour. Enough hops in the finish for you to notice them, but not enough to get very excited about. An average session ale.

Pours a medium amber-brown with a short-lived soap-sud head and a light aroma of sweet malt & hops. Tastes pleasantly hoppy, but with a sweet crystal malt backbone that overpowers the hops easily. Decently chewy body, very drinkable and better than most draught swill.

Pours a clear amber color with no head. The aroma is a strong malt smell, pleasant. Flavor is light caramel at start, strong malts in the middle, and very very mild hops at the end. Not balanced, but still very enjoyable. The carbonation is decent, but it doesn’t prevent the texture from being a little watery. Still a decent beer.

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. EDIT: Much better on tap, malts really shine through.

Canette de 355 ml. Nos yeux observent une bière de couleur cuivrée-rousse avec une mousse beige qui couvre la surface du début jusqu’à la fin. Notre nez respire des arômes de caramel et de noisettes grillées en premier nez et de sucre d’orge en deuxième nez. Notre palais rencontre un corps moyen avec une effervescence moyenne. Nos papilles gustatives goutent des saveurs maltées de caramel, de sucre brun, de noisettes rôties avec une très légère amertume. La finale est sucrée et légèrement torréfiée. Surpris . Merci Rémy

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

Pours out of the bottle a reddish-copper colour with a very small off white head. Smells of caramel, apples and spice. Tastes of caramel, apples, a touch of spice, and that’s about it. Watery feel, pleasant but nothing great.

Can. Pours a crystal-clear red amber with an off white head. No real lacing. Nose is crystal malt, sweetness, toffee, mild hops. Palate is soft, sweet, and fruity, with mild hops and decent maltiness. Not my favorite beer, but it’s okay, especially when its on tap.