Epic Brewing Company (UT/CO) Imperial Red Ale

Imperial Red Ale

 

Epic Brewing Company (UT/CO) in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States 🇺🇸

Amber / Red Ale - Red Ale - Imperial Regular
Score
7.24
ABV: 7.7% IBU: - Ticks: 14
This beer is very popular! Extremely complex and strong at 7.1% ABV. This beer is well balanced between the caramel-malt driven profile and the dry, supporting hops. Look for hints of dark bread and a slight fig or raisin taste all backed by a strong resin, but not overwhelming hop presence.
 

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7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Sample at brewery, dark copper opaque. Creamy full body. Caramel aroma, pine and dark fruit taste, strongly bitter hops finish.

Tried on 07 May 2019 at 01:00


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pours a dark amber with a tan head. Aroma is dominated by caramel, with bread, plum, dried fruit and raisins. Taste is quite similar with banana, grass, ripe peach, some hints of maple syrup.

Tried on 23 Jun 2014 at 04:39


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draft - Big hoppy earthy pine and malts. Cloudy copper with a very rich beige head. Big pine hops and malts. Decent.

Tried from Draft on 20 May 2014 at 14:32


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Deep amber color, lots of caramel and pine in the nose with some dried fruits. Big malty back bone but fairly simplistic. With aggressive hops.

Tried on 10 Apr 2014 at 06:46


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Draft sample at Epic Brewing taproom, Denver. Pours hazy amber with a small tan head. Aroma of malt, pine, resinous hops, caramel, ripe fruits and toffee. Flavour is over moderate sweet and bitter. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation. Nice brew!

Tried from Draft on 11 Oct 2013 at 12:13


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle. Hazy dark amber colour with an off-white head. Floral, grass, fruit, hops aroma. Flavour is caramel, hops, malt.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Jun 2013 at 01:39


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bomber bought @ Bierkompass.de. Pours hazy deep reddish brown with a frothy beige head that slowly dissipates while leaving some thick lacing on the glass. Smell is slightly sweet, malty and hoppy with sweet dark bread, caramel, oily pine, resinous wood, grapefruit juice, moist soil, orange peal, bergamot, strawberries, alcohol and cereal. Taste is sweet, bitter, malty and hoppy with sweet bread, frozen strawberries, grapefruit juice, lemon zest, alcohol, cereal, orange peal, oily pine, resinous wood, wild strawberries, freshly cut grass and lemon peal. Mouthfeel is round, smooth, tiny boozy and medium bodied. Finish is slightly sweet and bitter with sweet bread, grapefruit juice, lemon peal, resinous wood, oily pine and freshly cut grass. Good stuff...

Tried on 09 Nov 2012 at 14:14


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottled at SBWF (7.5%). Cloudy copper colour, small head. Perfumy grapefruit aroma. Mid sweet with above medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Fruity and caramelly, salty and hoppy with long bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Oct 2012 at 12:23


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottled@SBWF2012. Deep red colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is nice floral, grassy and fruity hops with some slight bready malts and raisins to it. Flavour is mild ryebread, slightly toasted malts, some slight alcohol sweetness as well as some raisins and mild wooden notes.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Oct 2012 at 22:36


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottled. Nice reddish amber color. Cherry nose, caramel, nice chocolate in the background. Very fruity flavor, cherry, light caramel and chocolate, good, hoppy.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Sep 2012 at 04:18