Epic Brewing Company Sour Brainless on Peaches

Sour Brainless on Peaches
(has 2 batches)

 

Epic Brewing Company in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States 🇺🇸

  Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular
Score
7.45
ABV: 7.4% IBU: - Ticks (all batches): 22
The intense and complex sour character of this beer is developed in oak Foeders containing select cultures of Lactobacillus, Pidiococcus and wild yeast. The process is slow and delicate, regularly taking a year or more. Once our brewers have decided it’s ready, we blend the soured beer into hand-selected oak barrels with fresh peach puree, where it undergoes additional sour fermentation and aging.
 

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8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle from Beer Republic. Sour peach funk! Nicely peachy and tart, medium sourness. Funky, fruity aroma, more tart peach. Medium body. Lovely, bit like a Crooked Stave fruited Sour. Tasty.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Feb 2025 at 14:29

8/10
Tried from Bottle on 26 May 2023 at 21:30

8.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle, 0.375l. Aroma is vinous, cellar-like, peachy and woody with mild vanilla note. Pours hazy golden orange color with thin quickly diminishing white head, yeast and fruit residue and sparkling appearance. Taste starts tart vinous and citrusy with peachy note, following is woody with tannins and astringent mouthfeel. Medium to full body, slick texture and average carbonation in palate. Hellish tartness that makes you brainless…
Tried from Bottle on 12 Apr 2023 at 20:52

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Pale blond colour with thin head and light haze. Almost no carbonation. Aroma of peach, sour peach candies, oak, vanilla and a little almond. Flavour has tart peach and again a touch of bitter almond. Lingering tart, fruitiness. Light vinegar but not overly acidic.
Tried from Can on 17 Feb 2023 at 20:44

8.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Very cloudy pure orange coloured body with a very nice, almost perfect two to three centimetre tall off-white head that fades relatively quickly, doesn't really leave any lacing and only a thin layer on top of the about 80 per cent opaque body. Aroma of very soured, super funky and oaky, dry and aromatic peaches, yeast, and gueuze-like complexity with the foeders and the spontaneously fermented notes the most strong in the nose with some light peaches and apricots along with apples and pears in the nose - this is strong throughout and very enjoyable to smell - quite complex. Light to Medium-bodied; Assertive effervescence that fades fairly quickly but leaves a lot of apricot, peach and pear notes right behind with a great fruity quality, but those only balance out the strong and pungent soured and super tart notes from the lactobilly and especially noticeable spontaneous fermentation yeasts here that are complex and pungent, but also tart and dry. Aftertaste is complex, period, with apricots, peaches, caster sugar, light honey, a dash of dry grain, some slight grassy notes, but mainly the spontaneous fermentation, oak and cedar woodsie notes but tarntess throughout - this is rich and pungent at the end, in a great, enjoyable and 'always-keeps-you-guessing' way. Overall, a great beer that has aged tremendously well - I'm not sure how this was fresh, but definitely nice to keep this long in the right conditions, and have it, exactly seven years after purchase, on such a sad day for this country. I sampled this wax-sealed, 37,5 cL bottle, purchased from Sicliano's in Grand Rapids, Michigan with my daughter on 11-September-2015 for US$13,79 as part of the 'Aged 13 Months, 7,3% alcohol, DEN #2547, Release #01' sampled exactly SEVEN years later at my house here a few blocks from the Pentagon, in Washington on 11-September-2022 after visiting the memorial of course with my (now) three kids on 11-September-2022.
Tried from Bottle on 12 Sep 2022 at 07:52

7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 8
Slightly cloudy yellow, lots of big chunks in second half of bottle. Small white head. Smell is sour, nice peach. Refreshing body, light but not thin. Taste is sweet peach, fairly sour but not puckering, some funk, good bit of oak. Tasty and refreshing!
Tried from Bottle from Beerdome on 27 May 2022 at 22:00

7.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle from Beer Republic. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, light peach, barnyard and heavy wood. Flavor is medium sweet and rather acidic. Dry and rather acidic finish. 230220
Tried from Bottle on 23 Feb 2020 at 19:09

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
375ml bottle. Hazy, yellow-ish, bright golden colour with small to average, frothy, rapidly diminishing, snow-white head. Tart-ish, minimally tangy, fruity aroma, notes of fresh peach, mirabelle, peach pulp. Taste is dry, minimally astringent, sour, fruity, slightly oaky, hints of peach, a touch of mirabelle, sour white wine; fine, prickly carbonation. Refreshing, not too sour, very nice peach flavours in the nose.
Tried from Bottle on 01 May 2019 at 14:35

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle from Highland 8-4-16
Tried from Bottle on 25 Feb 2019 at 00:44

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 4 Overall 8
Refrigerated 12.7 oz. brown bottle poured into a glass. Slightly hazy golden with very small white head. Aroma is tart, medium body, low carbonation, and very little lacing. Taste is sour lemon, some oak, and with a little peach.
Tried from Bottle on 07 May 2018 at 00:54