Epic Brewing Company Smoked & Oaked Belgian-Style Ale

Smoked & Oaked Belgian-Style Ale

 

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

  Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular
Score
7.15
ABV: 10.4% IBU: - Ticks: 66
This is a Belgian-style strong ale but with an American fusion twist dreamt up by Epic. Using authentic Belgian-style yeast, this is a malt-driven beer with Maris Otter malt as a base and a hint of Pilsner malt. For the first twist we use smoked cherry wood malt that works it’s magic, bringing a smoky sweetness to the caramel malts and a bit of peat flavor as well. This ale then really marries together when it hits the cask. The entire batch aging in the whiskey barrels nicely dries out the perceived sweetness of the caramel malt leaving an almost scotch like taste, with smoke, bourbon, hints of vanilla, wood, aged fruit from the Belgian yeast and some peat. A very, very special extremely flavorful strong ale made for sharing.

Release #1 - 8.0% ABV
Release #2 - 8.8% ABV
Release #3 - 10.5% ABV
Release #4,5 - 9.9% ABV
Release #6,7 - 10.5% ABV
Release #8 - 9.5% ABV
Release #9,10 - 9.0% ABV
Release #11 - 12.5% ABV
Release #12 - 10.7% ABV
Release #13,14 - 10.5% ABV

Release #15,16 - 10.4% ABV
 

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8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Booze honey pouring a sticky brown amber. White lacing head. Vanilla, cherries brandy oak. Yeast. Really good

Tried on 20 May 2025 at 01:16


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Flaska bb 2014. Röd med mycket jästfällning. Doftar sött av röda bär. Söt, fyllig, mjuk, karamell, röda bär. Lätt rök men känner inga fat.

Tried on 26 Jun 2021 at 17:44


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Sample at the brewery, brownish copper clear. Sweet caramel aroma, slightly creamy. Dark fruit and cherry malt flavor. Boozy sweet finish.

Tried on 07 May 2019 at 01:13


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bomber shared by Marcus. Pours darkly copper with a transient beige head. Aroma is a tad smoky, with some phenolics and a lilttle wood. All rather mild, but the sum is substantial. Med + body. Flavor is smoky, has some darkish fruit, some wood, and again I think a bit of phenolics. And there’s malt all underneath. Interesting.

Tried on 18 Dec 2017 at 15:20


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle at SBWF. Deep red colour, small beige head. Aroma has caramel and bread. Medium-bodied. Toffee, fruits, fudge in the flavour. Vanilla and bourbon are there but cant trace smoke. Feels a bit old.

Tried from Bottle on 06 Oct 2017 at 07:30



6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bomber, Market Street Wine Shop Uptown, $11.99 Release #33, 9.6 abv. Pours cloudy brown with no head. Well, not surprisingly, the aroma is smoked peat as well as oak. Also some overripe fruit. Taste is lightly sour fruit: banana, plum, lightly smoked peat, light oak, earth, alcohol.

Tried on 12 Sep 2016 at 16:43


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tap at Craft Sukhumvit, Bangkok. Poured a murky dark brown colour with a thin broken off white head. The aroma is sweet toffee caramel malt, alcohol. The flavour is strong sweet with a rich smooth oily, sweet malt, rich fruit, liqourice alcohol, light pepper spice palate and a bubbly mouthfeel. Full bodied with soft carbonation. Big rich and gorgeous. Just a little too sweet for me though.

Tried from Draft on 10 Jul 2016 at 08:17


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

a very rich brew. has a mild aroma. But the flavor more than makes up for it. Great marriage between Belgian and smoke.

Tried on 14 May 2016 at 00:52


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Refrigerated brown bomber release 29 poured. Hazy medium brown with small beige head. Aroma is nice, medium body, low carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is oak and some smoke.

Tried on 08 Apr 2016 at 17:43