Big Rock Brewery

Specialties

Big Rock Brewery Inc. — headquartered in Calgary, Alberta — produces premium, all-​natural craft beers. As Canada’s leading craft brewer, Big Rock boasts a family of exceptional ales and lagers, Rock Creek Cider®, an ongoing selection of seasonal beers released through the Brewmaster’s Edition and cutting-​edge, limited-​run brews released through the Alchemist Edition. Big Rock products are sold in nine provinces and two territories in Canada, and are also available in Korea.

History

Established in 1985.

In 1985 Big Rock’s founder Ed McNally found a small space to set up shop, «imported» our first brewmaster Bernd Pieper, and started creating the beers that he liked. At the time Ed was quoted as saying that his plan was to «make the beers that I want to drink, not what will be popular.» That philosophy goes a long way to explaining why our first three beers were Bitter, Porter and Traditional. Of the three, Traditional was an instant hit, and continues to win praise and converts today. As for the others, well, Ed really liked them.

1996 was the year that saw Big Rock move to its current location, having grown much too large for the original facility. We actually have three breweries here now. Our main brewery, capable of producing batches of 200 Hectolitres; the smaller Kaspar Schulz, where we innovate new brews, and our own Nano Brewery which was custom built for our barrel program, and to allow customers to brew their own creations.