Pale Ale
Epic Brewing Company in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
6.94
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Supreme Champion Beer - New Zealand International Beer Awards
You can only drink so many beers in a lifetime, so you better make each one count. That's where we can help. Because at Epic we're obessed with creating big hop-fuelled beers. This takes a shed-load of skill. It also takes a shed-load of hops. In fact there are 23 crammed into this bottle. Many brewers would call that 'insane'. We call it flavour.
You can only drink so many beers in a lifetime, so you better make each one count. That's where we can help. Because at Epic we're obessed with creating big hop-fuelled beers. This takes a shed-load of skill. It also takes a shed-load of hops. In fact there are 23 crammed into this bottle. Many brewers would call that 'insane'. We call it flavour.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Hop Hideout, Sheffield. Clear amber. Thin, bubbly, off white head. Nice, fusty orange hop. Sweet, toffee malts. Hint of spice. Hint of blackcurrant. Taste is soft sweet. Lightly spicy dry. Chewy, zesty bitter. Decent body. A bit too much fizz. Finishes long bitter, and a bit of spicy dryness. Easy drinking.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Mar 2015
at 14:17
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared with SarkyNorthener cheers Martin; clear light copper and a thin off white head, assertive hop aroma, taste has light caramel, some tangerine a hint of pine, citrus, pale malts, light bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2015
at 08:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Keg at spitfire. Pours clear amber, nose is pineapple, toffee, taste is dry, sweet toffee.
Tried
on 15 Feb 2015
at 12:02
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml bottle at Shawty’s Cafe, Twizel. Pours clear brownish amber with a large head that quickly dies and leaves a beautiful residual foam. Underwhelming nose compared to the great taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2015
at 00:51
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Keg at craft beer calling.. Soft sweet floral fruit.... Soft sweet fruits.. Soft hop.... Juicy fruits as American pale ale
Tried
from Can
on 21 Nov 2014
at 10:43
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Brothers Beer, Auckland, August 2014. Clear amber with a white head. Fairly relaxed with hops, grass, some light malt. The finish was on the dry side with a hoppy bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Aug 2014
at 16:52
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
From a 22 oz bottle shared at the High Country Motel in Cooke City MT. Pours a clear amber with a thick off white head. Malty nose. Smooth, attenuated hops. Nice flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2013
at 19:42
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Amber beer with a cream head. Spice and grapefruit aroma with pine. Pine and spice flavor with grapefruit. Medium bodied. Pine and spice lingers with grapefruit and light malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2013
at 11:21
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
500mL bottle, enjoyed immediately after purchase, pours a clear copper / bronze with a small off-white head. Aroma of floral hops predominantly, grass, a bit of citrus and a crackery malt backing. Flavour brings out dry notes of grassy and floral hops, citrus and a substantial crackery / biscuity malt backing. Quite a dry, monolithic palate, with not much character. I'm not sure how fresh this is, as there is no bottle date, but seems it could be fresher. Decent pale ale, but nothing overly interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2013
at 19:44
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
50cl bottle pours clear copper with gold edges and off white head. The aroma is spicy to almost cedar wood spice, floral hops and a lime like citrus note. The taste has a hoppy mix of floral hop bitterness, spicy hops and lemon to lime citrus like notes. Interesting bright to acidic hop notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2012
at 07:06