Big Rock Warthog Ale

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

Serve in Dimpled mug

Light Body, Dry Texture, weak palate that would be admissable if it was’t so sweet.

Canned. Light amber in color with a large white head. Grainy malt aroma and flavor slight sweet and clean with a subtle fruit character.

Pours pale clear amber with a tiny quick disipating head. Sweet caramel and chocolate aroma. Sweet and earthy. Drying and chalky. Pretty weak in the palate. A slight bit of pepper in the finish.

Can: Clear amber with a large frothy head. Rich malty aroma, starts lightly sweet and ends sweeter than that.

Bought 2 of these from the liquor store "odds" section....didn’t want a 6 as I had my fill of this in Calgary. It’s what I used to think was a micro brew before I knew any better. Pours a crystal clear amber-brown color with a small head that reduces quickly. Slight understated aromas of roast malts, caramel. Starts light with the nutty malts out-balancing the weaker hops..medium light body...light clean finish. A better than the average tasting light ales from the Canadian macros.....more flavor but still not enough to satisfy my tastes in an ale.

Flavorful but an average brew at best. Pours a dark amber color. With aromas of roasted malt and caramel. Light to medium bodied, with flavors of roasted malt, caramel, and a somewhat unstructured hoppiness. Ahh!

I enjoyed this more than the traditional when I visited out west last year. Lighter in colour but a bit more going on in the hops end. Pretty decent on draught and was available when macros were only other choice, so that could have helped too!

Aroma of strong alcohol and some kind of nut, which I can’t put my finger on. Taste was a bit thin but had somewhat a bitterness.