Western Canada's founding craft brewery, established in 1985 in Calgary — making it one of Canada's oldest craft breweries. Big Rock was brewing distinctive ales in Alberta when almost no one else in Canada was. Their Traditional Ale was Alberta's first craft beer. Now distributed nationally with brewing facilities in Calgary and Toronto.
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Drawn from all 9 beers in the catalogue.
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Their signature has to hold across very different styles — which makes the notes that do recur more telling, not less.
Across 9 beers in 6 style families, none of Big Rock Brewery's characters carry through the whole range — the mix of styles they brew is the signature here.
Their beers place in the Top 75% of the catalogue on average, across 9 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
Based on style overlap and flavor profile
Western Canada's founding craft brewery, established in 1985 in Calgary — making it one of Canada's oldest craft breweries. Big Rock was brewing distinctive ales in Alberta when almost no one else in Canada was. Their Traditional Ale was Alberta's first craft beer. Now distributed nationally with brewing facilities in Calgary and Toronto.
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