Big Rock Lime

Brewed by Big Rock Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Calgary, Canada

(Can) Sometimes you don’t know why you are sampling a beer, other times you don’t care. I suppose this would be the latter as, in recent years, I’ve tried to drink beers that are appealing and avoid the mass market stuff. But on the Plains, sometimes you become intrigued or confronted. A can of Big Rock Lime stared at my during the brief period of opening my brother-in-law’s fridge. Now I never expected much, and this didn’t let me down on that front, but this would be my first of a lime-series macro... and I can honestly say it wasn’t as bad as I had feared. Obviously lime-centric, but some watery grain base. It looks horrible with a straw-coloured body and an artificially large white frothy head - but you can drink a 6-pack of these to become hydrated. It is what it is.

Consumed in Brad’s hotel room in Jasper. Super light gold, small white cap, dissipates to nothing. The aroma is a bizarre Tostidos Lime blended with perfume, odd malts something or another. Pretty much terrible. The taste is just brutal. Dry wheaty water with a weak plasticy lime, corn, bleck. This is hard to drink. Mouth feel is weak, dry and unwelcoming. Glad I split this free bottle and then drank free premium Scotch on his tab later on in the night.

I’m going against the grain here, but I think Big Rock got this one right. It seems that "lime lagers" are this year’s big fad, much like low carb beers were last year (or perhaps 2 years ago). Nearly every one I’ve tasted has been shit, with a saccharine soda-pop sweetness that is more cooler than beer. This beer is not sweet, nor does it come across as artificial. The pale malts are clean, and the aroma and flavour is more like lime zest (rind), and it does not knock your teeth out. The finish is very dry, keeping the palate fresh. This is by far the best take on a lime lager I’ve yet tried.

Why does such a terrific brewery degrade itself by making "keeping up with the joneses" swill like this? I just don’t get it. This is typical terrible lime, just with a little bit of Big Rock touch in the great mouth feel and an actual average nose.

Pretty horrible, but better than Bud Light Lime. Tastes chemically and fake. Light beer taste is gross. Overall, would not get again.

Bottle. 4%. Another lime additive on the market. Woot. Plain beer taste, with lime syrup. I prefer deciding when to add fruit to my beer, don’t take that choice away from me and force this swill down my throat.

Clear yellow. Smell is fat lime with little else. Taste is tiny lime with no other redeeming qualities. Too dry and tasteless. Strangely enough, this was all the rage when I went up north.