Armageddon IPA
Epic Brewing Company in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
IPA Regular|
Score
7.34
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In the beginning, there was nothing. Then an impish brewer piled a ludicrous amount of hops inot a batch of beer. This zymurgical big bang is Epic Armageddon, an apocalyptic assault on your preconceptions and taste buds. It may be too huge for this fragile planet so enjoy this beer like it was the last one on Earth
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8.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9.5
From a 500ml bottle on 10/7/2011. Pours a clear golden honey colour with a smallish fine head. Has a wonderful, powerful floral, fruit and pine hop aroma. Similarly bursts with flavour, with a big caramel/toffee malt backbone, honey, sweet citrus fruits (particularly mandarin) and heaps of grapefruit. A real hop monster and an exceptional, complex IPA. Damn those kiwis are brewing some good gear.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2011
at 22:35
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to the Michigan Crew! Poured a clear gold with a white head that lasted throughout the beer. Aroma had a nice pine note with some backing grass and strong sweet grain backbone and a hint of spice. Flavor had a bit more sweet grain and hay, but pine still came through with a bit of spice in the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2011
at 15:11
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity hoppy piney grapefruit aroma. Fruity malty hoppy bitter piney grapefruit flavor. Has a fruity malty hoppy bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2011
at 06:36
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled 500ml (BB 12/2011)
Clear amber color, small off-white head. Exotic fruity, nettle, mango, citrus aroma. Medium-bodied. Fruity, sweetish, hoppy, bitter flavor. Balanced, exotic IPA with quite good drinkabilty.
Clear amber color, small off-white head. Exotic fruity, nettle, mango, citrus aroma. Medium-bodied. Fruity, sweetish, hoppy, bitter flavor. Balanced, exotic IPA with quite good drinkabilty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2011
at 05:17
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled (thanks omhper!). Golden colour, small white head. Aroma is big time floral and fruity hops with quite strong grassyness as well. Flavour is lots of fruity and floral hops with some grassyness. Strong bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2011
at 05:10
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours deep amber with a large, lasting head and lots of lacing.Nose shows loads of fruity hops; heaps of rockmelon, peach, apricot, tangerine,orange blossom, lemon sherbet and confectionery. Not much is detectable underneath it all, except for a faint hint of crystal. Pretty amazing.Flavours show more malt, at first it’s a big, resinous, piney hoppy hit but then some crystal and light toasty malt shows. Some of the fruit remains, in particular tangerine and peach. Bold bitterness, but in no way extreme.Great moderately high carbonation. Body could be a little richer.
Tried
on 28 Apr 2011
at 17:24
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Lots of crystal malts, well balanced. Execellent bitterness. Body is not as full as I would want. Lots of caramel.
Tried
on 09 Apr 2011
at 05:14
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A hazy amber beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has strong notes of hops, lending the beer notes of grass and grapefruits, which is combined with lighter notes of over ripe fruits. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel, over ripe fruits, and fresh peaches and grapefruit, leading to a bitter finish. The body is light.
Tried
on 27 Mar 2011
at 15:35
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Medium offwhite head. Amber body with light carbonation. Citric herbal gooseberry aroma with grape and wood notes. Dry-sweet pineapple, flour, and wood taste with resiny notes. Mid-bodied. Dry mealy pineapple and wood aftertaste with resin notes. Really nice. (0.5l bottle shared by Ole_R.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2011
at 13:34
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours clear orange amber with a off white head. Fresh passion fruity and citrusy IPA, nice balance and thirst quenching!
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2011
at 10:57