Big Rock Traditional Ale

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

Tofeeish caramel malts very abundant but things don’t get overly sweet. Very light hops add a gentle earthiness. Hint of chocolate, some very light fruit. Good medium-light body, solid flavors and quaff-able. Aroma is of slight sour yeast and brown sugar. One-note-ish but very tasty! Nothing wrong with this simple easy-drinking amber ale.

A thick tan head with awesome retention sets atop a crystal clear ruby red to dark brown beer, most of the head disappears after a few minuets but a good covering remains the leaves behind some good sticky lacing. MMMM……..caramel malts and medium strength hops with some sort of spice witch I can’t figure out makes for a very good aroma, it’s a nice and strong aroma but not overpowering. Beer seem slightly watery but goes down good and smooth, this beer is all deep roasted malts that leave a bitter sweet after taste. No hops can be detected in the flavor just the goodness of the malts. This is a great tasting dark beer that’s readily available around town and most non beer snobs will split a pitcher of it with you.

Draft at The Railway Club in Vancouver. Poured a dark orange color with a creamy off white head that left some lace behind. Smelled of subdued brown sugar and sweet cream. Light to medium bodied and delicately sweet up front. Tasted of pale malt and light earthy hops. A bit of toffee emerged at the end.

Brownish red , nutty sort of aftertaste and some traces of fruit. Easy drinking for an ale.

Cask, Toronto. Ruby red - brown colour, small off-white head. Aroma of caramel malts and nuts. Flavour of caramel malts, fruits, hops and toffee.

On tap. Pours dark, coppery brown, with a smallish tan coloured head. Aroma is sweet, malty. Flavour is a little sweet, malty, hints of caramel. My go to beer when in Calgary. I’ll have a Trad.

341ml bottle from the LCBO Ok so i have had maybe a thousand of these or so over the years it was my beer of choice for a long time so i have a abit of a soft spot for this one. funny how after sampling a lot of different beers how this seems thinner and lighter than i remember Pours a nice coppery red with a small tan head little to no lacing The aroma is malty and sweet caramel The taste is sweeter than i remember still quite good though malty with a dry finish Ah yes my old freind the TRAD

On tap at O’Shea’s in Toon Town. Pours brown with a white head. This is a flavorless beer. A big nothing. Perhaps that is the tradition. Dark in color, but light in body. A mild roastedness can be detected at best.