Session IPA
Big Rock Brewery
- From:
- Big Rock Brewery
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American IPA
Ranked #4,734 - ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 80
Ranked #36,843 - Avg:
- 3.26 | pDev: 16.26%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 13, 2021
- Added:
- Oct 16, 2015
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
80
Good
80
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by KyonLion from Canada (AB)
3.48/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Pour is a golden amber, crystal clear, with a healthy fluffy head with medium bubbles. The nose is a crisp hop and cracked nuts, doesn't linger. The taste is a very light hop, lemon peel, notes of Italian spices and earth/mushrooms. Feel is light body, tingle of carbonation, low to medium acidity, lingers medium. Aftertaste bitter and fresh. Ibu is listed at 32, seems about right. More hop in the nose than on the tongue.
Jan 08, 2018
Reviewed by bilbobrewer from Oregon
1.51/5 rDev -53.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
1.51/5 rDev -53.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
If you like the sweetness of caramel or amber malts, and you don't like any indication of hops whatsoever...then this might be a beer for you.
But if you expect an IPA, you'll be unpleasantly surprised by this offering, to be kind.
A complete farce. It's NOT an IPA....neither the bittering tradition of the UK, nor the more flavor- & aroma-focused styles of the PNW.
The egregious, willful deceit of the brewery , compounded by the extortion-high prices for all Canadian beer, combines in my review score.
Nov 16, 2016But if you expect an IPA, you'll be unpleasantly surprised by this offering, to be kind.
A complete farce. It's NOT an IPA....neither the bittering tradition of the UK, nor the more flavor- & aroma-focused styles of the PNW.
The egregious, willful deceit of the brewery , compounded by the extortion-high prices for all Canadian beer, combines in my review score.
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.37/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.37/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
So, this is a colossal cluster of flavors that has nothing to do with its billing as a Session IPA. Methinks the tall cans went down the line when the CoOp IPA was being canned? It's not terrible beer, but this is far too sweet and devoid of hops for this cowboy. Arghhhh. Once again, Big Rock screws the pooch...
Apr 27, 2016
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.54/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
3.54/5 rDev +8.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
473ml can, a sort of surprise find at my local Real Canadian Liquor Store. Who else but Big Rock would have a 'session' IPA with the same ABV as that of their regular IPA?
This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly ecru head, which leaves some descending sudsy alien warship lace around the glass as things slowly and evenly recede.
It smells of rather sweet, pastry-adjacent caramel/toffee malt, sugary orange and pink grapefruit citrus, a twinge of white pepper, and soft earthy, leafy, and faintly piney hop bitters. The taste is bready, doughy caramel malt, slightly biscuity toffee, muddled, but still fairly saccharine citrus notes, an ethereal pepper dust character, and some very subtle green weedy, wet piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite light in its understated and lackadaisical frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a minor airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad. It finishes sweet, caramelized, and mildly fruity, with an echo of the off-setting bitterness that should be (more).
Well, I can't say that they didn't warn me about this - the label plainly states that this is an 'unabashedly malt-forward session IPA'. And that it is - so much so, and with the simply ridiculous ABV for the so-called and self-proclaimed style, that it seems much more like a typical Canadian amber ale, than anything. Sigh, off by one, once again, old boy.
Oct 17, 2015This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly ecru head, which leaves some descending sudsy alien warship lace around the glass as things slowly and evenly recede.
It smells of rather sweet, pastry-adjacent caramel/toffee malt, sugary orange and pink grapefruit citrus, a twinge of white pepper, and soft earthy, leafy, and faintly piney hop bitters. The taste is bready, doughy caramel malt, slightly biscuity toffee, muddled, but still fairly saccharine citrus notes, an ethereal pepper dust character, and some very subtle green weedy, wet piney hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite light in its understated and lackadaisical frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and mostly smooth, with a minor airy creaminess arising as things warm up a tad. It finishes sweet, caramelized, and mildly fruity, with an echo of the off-setting bitterness that should be (more).
Well, I can't say that they didn't warn me about this - the label plainly states that this is an 'unabashedly malt-forward session IPA'. And that it is - so much so, and with the simply ridiculous ABV for the so-called and self-proclaimed style, that it seems much more like a typical Canadian amber ale, than anything. Sigh, off by one, once again, old boy.
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