Epic Brainless Belgian-Style Golden Ale

Brewed by Epic Brewing Co. (Utah)
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Salt Lake City, Utah USA

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle - thanks Eric. Pours a dusty golden color with a thin, short lived white head. Nose is pungent with yeast and grassey hops. Mellow flavor is grassey, floral, faint spices, and more yeast. Just lightly fruity, but the spiciness and floral tone of the hops really take over. Nice varietal.

Bottle (Batch Something, 9.6%): Pours a clear gold color with a nice white head and a thin lacing. The nose is sharp and estery with plenty of yeast, alcohol and spice. Crisp malty peppery flavor with more of a view into the depths of the yeast’s work on the alcohol and spicy quadrant. Finishes a tad boozy and medicinal, but it’s citrus, dry and crisp in the finish. A nice tripel, certainly not just a "belgian ale" at 9.6%.

Thanks to Craig for the bomber! Poured clear straw golden with a thick initial cap of white your dentist would be proud of for head.. settled quickly, but was easily-resuscitated. The aroma picked up a huge dose of toasted bananas, cloves, and white pepper upfront, with pale malts and a touch of honey beneath.. there was a thick dose of Belgian yeast present that tried to be dirty and rustic, but it seemed rather sterilized.. still intriguing, though. The flavor found honey, pale malts, and sweet, ripe plantains at the core.. white pepper, Belgian yeast, and light earthy bitterness around.. tart and kind of sharp on the finish with alcohol warmth amplifying a tacky amalgamation of stuff. Medium-bodied and grainy on the palate, with a lot of residual sugars in the end.. got hung up and kind of hot on the latter half of the drink.. OK stuff, but I like several of their other brews more.

My first rating: 22 Oz bomber served in a pint glass (Release #2, 9.0 ABV). A vigorous pour produced a scent that let me know this was a Belgian style beer. Simply smells like a Belgian. Pours a hazy golden with quickly dissipating head and no lacing. Taste is Belgian, through and through. I get bubblegum and banana flavors. A light sweet sensation as well as salty. Palate: I am getting a medium body and sticky texture and a long finish. The carbonation is also right to style. I really enjoyed this beer.

22 oz bottle. Hazy golden pour, white head. Fruity malts, banana, grainy bread, caramel, spice, the hops are herbal, and citrus. Pretty tasty, although it is tripelish, which I usually dont like.

22 ounce bottle. Pours a cloudy orange color with a initially large foamy white head. The aroma is spicy malts, banana, sweet citrus. The flavor is rich and spicy; huge almost bitter spices, banana and cloves, sweet fruity malts. Clean and fluffy.

22 oz bottle purchased from the brewery - Pours a hazy golden yellow color with medium sized pure white head. Aroma has notes of black pepper, honey, apricot, herbal hops, grains of paradise, mellon. Flavor is somewhat malty, with herbal hops and strong notes of coriander. Finish is mildly sweet. This is actually pretty good overall.

22oz bottle from Epic Brewing
Appearance: Hazy straw color with a nice fluffy white head and good lacing
Aroma: Belgian yeast and candy, fruity
Taste: Sweet malts, Belgian candy, some alcohols and hop bitterness in the finish
A nice clean Belgian Ale. Well balance and crisp tasting, easy drinkability.

Thanks for the taste, timbo78 and footbalm! Brainless, eh? Hmmm. Really straight-forward. Smells right, looks right. The taste is a bit like the first time I used the f-bomb and had to suckle a bar of soap (perfume-y). The yeast is a little much for my preference, but still very refreshing overall. I’m certainly no proponent of fruit in beer, but this one might actually be better with an orange slice. Not my favorite, but I certainly wouldn’t turn a nose up at it if given another sip.