Imperial Red Ale
Epic Brewing Company in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.29
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This beer is very popular! Extremely complex and strong at 7.1% ABV. This beer is well balanced between the caramel-malt driven profile and the dry, supporting hops. Look for hints of dark bread and a slight fig or raisin taste all backed by a strong resin, but not overwhelming hop presence.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bomber bought @ Bierkompass.de. Pours hazy deep reddish brown with a frothy beige head that slowly dissipates while leaving some thick lacing on the glass. Smell is slightly sweet, malty and hoppy with sweet dark bread, caramel, oily pine, resinous wood, grapefruit juice, moist soil, orange peal, bergamot, strawberries, alcohol and cereal. Taste is sweet, bitter, malty and hoppy with sweet bread, frozen strawberries, grapefruit juice, lemon zest, alcohol, cereal, orange peal, oily pine, resinous wood, wild strawberries, freshly cut grass and lemon peal. Mouthfeel is round, smooth, tiny boozy and medium bodied. Finish is slightly sweet and bitter with sweet bread, grapefruit juice, lemon peal, resinous wood, oily pine and freshly cut grass. Good stuff...
Tried
on 09 Nov 2012
at 14:14
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Sample at Denver Rare Beer Tasting IV on 10/12/2012 (as "One-Off Cask"). The beer is a hazy dark amber color with a medium off-white head that diminishes steadily. Partial rings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of citrus, malt and hops. Medium-bodied with flavors of caramel malt, figs and grapefruity hops. The finish is hoppy with a lingering fruit aftertaste. Above average overall.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Oct 2012
at 17:39
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled at SBWF (7.5%). Cloudy copper colour, small head. Perfumy grapefruit aroma. Mid sweet with above medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Fruity and caramelly, salty and hoppy with long bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2012
at 12:23
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled@SBWF2012. Deep red colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is nice floral, grassy and fruity hops with some slight bready malts and raisins to it. Flavour is mild ryebread, slightly toasted malts, some slight alcohol sweetness as well as some raisins and mild wooden notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2012
at 22:36
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled. Nice reddish amber color. Cherry nose, caramel, nice chocolate in the background. Very fruity flavor, cherry, light caramel and chocolate, good, hoppy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2012
at 04:18
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Tasting at Papsø’s, release #6, 7.9% ABV
Muddy red-amber color, with small sized head. Resiny hop aroma, malt, caramel, fudge, oak. Sweetish malt flavor, but also with pleasant hopping, resiny and fruity, and some nice oak vanilla; strong bitterness, and a nutty end. Very pleasant.
Muddy red-amber color, with small sized head. Resiny hop aroma, malt, caramel, fudge, oak. Sweetish malt flavor, but also with pleasant hopping, resiny and fruity, and some nice oak vanilla; strong bitterness, and a nutty end. Very pleasant.
Tried
on 22 Jun 2012
at 14:51
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from a trade with Gription79. Release #15. Pours cloudy dark copper color with tan head. Aromas of citrus, pine, and caramel. Big pine flavor with sweet caramel, toasted malts, and some bread. Medium body with average carbonation. Thanks Dallas.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2012
at 19:08
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On tap at Biercafe / Belmont Station, split with Matts_Property, pours dark amber / reddish brown with a small beige had. Aroma of dry caramel malts, some mild vinous qualities. Flavour is very sweet caramel malts, with dry vinous qualities to contrast. Medium-complexity, with a syrupy palate and cloying sweetness. Decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Nov 2011
at 00:13
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 22fl.oz.Unclear medium amber colour with a average, frothy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, grass, orange - citrus, hops. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110918]
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2011
at 05:54
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle at papsø. clody brown, small offwhite head mild malty aroma, well rounded. flavor is malty, dry, hoppy, like a barley wine
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2011
at 05:18