Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
22oz bottle from Epic
Appearance: Pours black with a medium sized tan head that dissipates to a small ring leaving some lacing on the sides of the glass
Aroma: Roasted malts and coffee, milk chocolate, cocoa and smokey
Taste: Silky mouthfeel of roasted malts, dark coffee, cocoa with a slighty bitter finish
A nice beer, lots of roasted coffee.
Drake (22940) reviewed Spiral Jetty IPA from Epic Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bomber from Total Wine West Richmond, VA. Pours a hazy orange color with a large creamy white head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of citrus and spicy hop notes. The taste is bitter citrus and floral hops with some caramel malt notes. Medium bodied. Lingering bitterness. Well balanced. Nice beer.
Buckeyeboy (18931) reviewed Brown Rice Ale from Epic Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
22oz Bottle thanks to Sam. Pours out golden topped with a small white head. Aroma was of toast malts, grain, and a little hop. Taste was pretty much as the aroma mostly toast malts and a little hop.
Ibrew2or3 (10834) reviewed Barley Wine from Epic Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Courtesy of douglas88. Pours clear deep copper with tan head. The aroma is full with tart grapefruit, spicy hops, earthy hops, a touch of floral hops and faint maltiness deep in the background. The taste is full up bitter hops with bold citrus, floral, pine and spicy hops rider over the top of lesser notes such as earthy hops and faint molasses. The hops have robust bitterness and only a mild level of hop flavor. This hop profile has far more floral in it than almost any hoppy barleywine than I can think of. After having the pleasure of trying countless dozens of hop forward barleywines that are almost exclusively pine and/or citrus this floral component here seems out of place.
Ibrew2or3 (10834) reviewed Straight Up Saison from Epic Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bomber courtesy of douglas88. Pours hazy bright gold with bright white head. The aroma has a mild level of funk, a bit of pepperiness, wet leather, apples, pears, a slight mineral sense and assorted yeasty spices. The taste has a touch of pepper leading into spices and then apples, pears, mild funk and more spiciness. Toward the finish a yeasty notes joins in to add a little extra texture to the after taste. Yummy stuff.
ben4321 (11632) reviewed Spiral Jetty IPA from Epic Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Location: Draft at Capital Ale, 11/23/10
Aroma: The nose is fairly hoppy, grapefruit/citrus, pine, some spice, and a little caramel
Appearance: The pour is was somewhat hazy with a copper color and a frothy white head
Flavor: The taste has some sweetness up-front with a fairly large hoppy bitterness as well
Palate: The body is medium, it has a fairly clean and crisp mouthfeel and a nice finish
Overall Impression: This was the first thing I've tried from Epic Brewing, and I was fairly impressed. This is the type of beer I could definitely drink more of. Really good stuff.
Travlr (30174) reviewed Mid Mountain Mild Ale from Epic Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6
Bomber at Churchkey. Murky amber color, large tan head. Aroma of orange peel and malt. Taste is lightly bitter with light spice. Incredible body. Not really a mild ale, but still a tasty twist on an ESB.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4
OK, I struggled with this one. Dave described it as a "love it or hate it" kind of beer - I don’t think I’m in either camp. It just confused me. I expected a typical smokey aroma, but it was more like apricot jam. The flavor had a sweet/sour start that changed to burnt duck fat, with a bit of whiskey and vanilla as it warmed. The complexity was there, but there were too many flavor clashes for me, and it seemed a bit unbalanced. I was very happy with the other Epic brews I tried, so I think I’ll stick to them.
Travlr (30174) reviewed Imperial Red Ale from Epic Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bomber, courtesy of Mike the Epic guy from Stilton, thank you sir! Deep purplish brown color. Aroma of caramel and citrus. Taste has a great malt backbone but nice hops as well, nicely balanced. Good one.
Travlr (30174) reviewed Imperial IPA from Epic Brewing Company 15 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bomber at Churchkey. Clear dark golden color, huge fluffy off white head, massive lacing. Aroma of fresh pine boughs. Taste of bitter pine resin. Nice stuff.