Epic Lager

Epic Brewing Company
Brewed at Steam Brewing Company
Style: Premium Lager
Auckland, New Zealand

Serve in Lager glass

Pale yellow body with a mainly lasting head. Some passionfruit on the aroma along with some floury notes. Noticeable hop taste but dont dominate, low to medium body, light carbonation, light bitterness. I was probably expecting a little more from this Epic beer.

20100707 500ml bottle from State Line. Straw colored with fine white head that mostly fades. Aroma is very pleasant, very mild, with a slight grassy hop, hay, and slight cream of wheat. Body is rather thin and incredibly dry, however mostly without bitterness until very late on the palate when a sharp herbal bite swoops in out of left field with a refreshing tingle. Kind of reminds me of mineral water where you get a mouthful and are thinking, meh, just water, but then the whole of the thing just erupts in one tiny moment of sensory joy. Palate and profile are very similar. Flavor doesn’t add much, if anything. It’s actually remarkably bland, but there’s not a thing about it I find off-putting or foul. In fact, I have really enjoyed drinking this one. Nicely done beer, but not nine bucks nice.

UPDATED: JUL 12, 2008 Bottle, pouring a clear light gold with a large white foamy head. Hoppy aroma with grass and citrus - similar to that of its big brother. A dry hoppy palate with earthy malt. A little bland when it comes to flavour, though I guess that it is being honest to the style.

500ml Bottle thanks to West Lakeview Liquors! Pours a very clear light golden with some bubbles and a smaller thinner fizzy head 2.5. Fairly aggressive for style, strongly metallic but with equal character of bread and noble hops, long metallic aftertaste, the finish is pretty nice, refreshing and full of flavor, medium bitterness. Medium/light bodied, easy drinking but definitely not just a pale lager, spread out sharp fizzy carbonation. Just a faint tad skunky/light stuck but other than that fairly clean. Pretty solid!

bottle shared by andy. pours a clear golden yellow. skinky, herbal, doughy bread and biscuity malts. okay not great.

Good carbonation nice head on top a gold pour aroma fruity hops some floral pine flavour citrus passionfruit grapefruit piney bitter is citrus taste resinous beer fizzy malt sweetness finish hop goodness nice bitter/sweet lager.

Another long distance for a beer to arrive at my mouth. Nice lager but not much better than a Yuengling. Pours a clear yellow with a mild bread and malt aroma. The flavor has the malt and bread of a lager with a nice hop balance. Not bad but not worth the money.

330ml bottle. Deep crown of loosely packed white foam from the initial pour. Bright golden amber colour and the aroma is fairly light but it does pack some citrus hop aromas. Flavour is smooth and mellow and quite light on the palate. Finishes cleanly with but does not really stand out.