Epic Halcyon
Thornbridge Brewery in Bakewell, Derbyshire, England 🏴
Collab with: Epic Brewing CompanyIPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production
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Score
7.37
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Brewed with Luke Nicholas, brewer of New Zealand’s Supreme Champion Beer, Epic Pale Ale, this version of Halcyon is all about the hops. We increased the bitterness to over 100 IBU (International Bitterness Units) & added a ridiculous amount of hops at dry hopping. All these hops give masses of fruit characters, gooseberry, pineapple, guava, peach & more. Finishes with a long intense bitterness & balanced malt sweetness.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Cask (handpump) @ University Arms, Sheffield, England.Light light unclear medium yellow orange color with a average, creamy to frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate to light heavy hoppy, grapefruit, orange, fruity, mango. Flavor is heavy sweet and hops + shell bitter with a long duration. Body is full, texture is creamy, carbonation is soft. [20090720]
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Oct 2009
at 11:53
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Cask @ University Arms. Orange brown color, hazy. Grapefruit and oily hops in the aroma. Malty sweet flavor with grapefruit, strawberries and oily hops. Earthy hopbitter aftertaste. Very nice IPA.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Aug 2009
at 09:16
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
Cask at University Arms, Sheffield, RBESG 09. Massive thanks to Alex Buchanan from Thornbridge for supplying this beer in the pub. Flowery aroma, more flowery hop than the regular version. Then really piney resiny after with great hot hops on the end. So resiny it’s untrure
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Jul 2009
at 10:56
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
RBESG Sheffield, day 2, University Arms. Cask, kindly provided by the brewer. Light hazy orange amber colour, soapy white head. Aroma of grapefruit, caramel. Flavour is fruity, grapefruit, malty, caramel, bittersweet toffee finish. Medium bodied. A very good one.
Tried
from Cask
on 22 Jul 2009
at 06:23
7.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Cask, gravity at Merton Summer Beer and Cider Festival, 17-07-09 Pours amber with quite a haziness, in fact the look of this beer was it’s only real weak spot, there was a small white head that swiftly departed. Aroma is big on tropical fruits but also a goodly dash of citrus thrown in for good measure. Tastes great, bags of grapefruit zipping around along with some softer fruits like peach and apricot, which you start to notice once your tongue recovers from the rasping workout that the bitterness gives it. I had a small ones of these over the weekend and it was up there with my favourite beers of the weekend but not quite taking the top spot. A8 A2 F8 P4 Ov16 3.8
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Jul 2009
at 02:12