Epic Thornbridge Stout

Epic Brewing Company (NZ)
Brewed at Steam Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Auckland, New Zealand

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Bottle at Papsø. Clear red brown coloured with a medium sized beige head. Fruity and roasted aroma of berries and dark chocolate. Roasted flavour of berries and dark chocolate with notes of hops. Hoppy finish.

Bottled. Reddish coloued. Brownish head. Aoma of caramel, light roast, vague dusty chcolate. flavour of sweetness, light roast, and some spice. medim bodied. Dry roasted vague bitteness in the end.

50 cL bottle. Pours dark brown with a deep amber glare and a small tan head. Aroma is roasted dark malt, slight smoked. Smooth roasted malty, breadish and caramelish. Bitter and dark malty roasted.

Bottle 50 cl. Courtesy of bluebetty. Pours black with a vague tint of red and a lacing beige head. Hard roast in the nose - and a little butter. Medium body, very hard roasted malts with some vanilla and figs. Rather malt bitter finish. 021110

Bottle@Brew on Quay. Apperance: Dark brown with a huge creamy head. Aroma: Chocolate, Caramel, Hint of coffee, Roasted malts. Taste: Caramel, Roasted malts, Hint of coffee, Hint of oak, Chocolate. Palate: Creamy and balanced but a rather thin body. Could use more of everything. A very drinkable stout that lacks a bit of everything. Esp i’d like to see a fuller body and some more hops. Nice try!

Interesting stout. Really dominated by citrus and grassy hop flavors which I found a surprise. A little toasting and nuts as well. Maybe the hoppy flavors stood out because I wasn’t expecting them. A dark body and a aggressive head. Heaps of carb too which I didn’t enjoy. Still, a good beer which I could have again no worries.

Grey frothy head on top a very dark brown pour aromas vanilla chocolate caramel milky alround flavours sweet caramel milky coffee medium bitter chocolate morishingly dry finish short aftertastes malt hops and the bitter

Stout looking with a small creamy head. Roasted malt, coffee and sweet aromas. Flavour of roasted coffee and malt with a hint of sweet dark fruit and gentle hop bitterness. Smooth body and dry bitter finish.

Bottle, 12C. Very dark brown with a dense crema head. Aroma has mild roast, nuts, coffee, nectarines, lychees and a little gooseberry. Certainly quite noticeably hoppy aromatics for a stout. Medium body has some stickiness. Taste has more roasted malt character than suggested by the aroma. Not much fruit taste, but quite a lot of coffee and cocoa. Dry, almost powdery finish is more roasted than hop bitterness. Lacks a little depth but pretty good.

Nice well rounded stout... would have like to see more ’Epic’ hop character though. Lovely to drink but not distinctive.