 gilvanblight (390), Windsor, Ontario, Canada
| 2.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 2/5 | 5/10 | 2/5 | 11/20 |
Feb 1, 2006 Redish gold pour with a nice head. It was generally watery and weak but there was a good pale ale taste in there, too bad the couldn’t get it to feature more.
mnurda (434), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
| 3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 2/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Jan 26, 2006 Diapery aroma? -Hmm I never thought of a beer smelling that way, but it may be a good description. I knew there was something off about this one, and Oakes (5028) hit the nail on the head. Other than the smell, it is a fairly good beer to have in the fridge.
Oakes (8093), gone rambling, Vietnam
| 1.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 1/10 | 2/5 | 5/10 | 2/5 | 7/20 |
Dec 18, 2005 Light bronze colour. Toasty, sulphury and fucking awful diapery aroma. Big Rock is not known for lack of brewing talent but this aroma is flawed. Flavour has residuals of this, but in the background. What you mostly get is the toast...lots of it...like a toasty bagel with butter. But not a real bagel. Like a Tim Horton’s imitation bagel. And it’s margarine, not butter. I happen to like toasted bagels with butter so it’s cool, well as long as I plug my nose, but it’s not a good beer. Seriously, I’m not trying to pick on Big Rock, but I just had a Hacker Hell and it terms of malt character, hop character, cleanliness, it’s a professional beer. This is not.
Trev (872), Lakeville, Minnesota, USA
| 2.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 3/10 | 2/5 | 5/10 | 2/5 | 9/20 |
Dec 17, 2005 Seems they’ve dropped the India and it’s just Pale Ale now...
Bottle: Medium gold pour with a creamy white head and plenty of visible carbonation streamers.
Aroma is low hop, earthy wet wool yeasty.
Flavour is thin and clean with the carbonation a bit too much that it overwhelms the flavour.
Not crazy about this one...
pintbypint (1007), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Jul 29, 2005 341ml brown bottle. Deep gold colour, very creamy head, tight bubbled, with sticky lace. Slightly floral hop aroma with some sweetish fruity malt behind it. Malty flavour, slightly earthy. Bitterness very light toward finish. Lively carbonation. Perhaps labeling this as an IPA is a bit of a stretch, but I liked it.
OKBeer (1159), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
| 2.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 11/20 |
Jun 21, 2005 341 ml bottle. Golden amber colour with a mostly diminishing fizzy and frothy off-white head. Caramel, bready, and lightly grainy aroma. Toasty and light caramel flavours with a light citrusy bitter finish. Light to medium bodied, dry and fizzy mouthfeel. No IPA, but the first from Big Rock I’ve had that didn’t completely suck.
frink (467), coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
| 2.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 3/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 2/5 | 8/20 |
Apr 24, 2005 Pours a light amber with a white head. mild aroma of floral hops, grassy. The taste is far from what I associate with an I.P.A. Little or no hops,some malt, grassy, thin. If you’re looking for an I.P.A. skip this one.
Eyedrinkale (3209), Astoria, New York, USA
| 2.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 4/10 | 2/5 | 4/10 | 2/5 | 9/20 |
Apr 7, 2005 Bottle. Gold color with nary much of a head to speak of. Aroma is dusty with some malts and caramel. Taste is a strange honey flavor and hops. I had this side by side with Widmer and that blew this stuff away.
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