Epic Brewing Company

Armageddon IPA

IPA - American

In the beginning, there was nothing. Then an impish brewer piled a ludicrous amount of hops inot a batch of beer. This zymurgical big bang is Epic Armageddon,… Read More

In the beginning, there was nothing. Then an impish brewer piled a ludicrous amount of hops inot a batch of beer. This zymurgical big bang is Epic Armageddon, an apocalyptic assault on your preconceptions and taste buds. It may be too huge for this fragile planet so enjoy this beer like it was the last one on Earth Read Less

Hop Zombie

IPA - Imperial / Double

Hops have taken over the world. Permeated the senses of the minions. Hop Zombies now roam the streets. Lupulin ichor oozing from ravaged legions. Gorging,… Read More

Hops have taken over the world. Permeated the senses of the minions. Hop Zombies now roam the streets. Lupulin ichor oozing from ravaged legions. Gorging, gouging, masticating. Salivating over insane hop flavours and aromas. The time is nigh. No more festering away in hopless oblivion. Join the HopZombie Revolution. Read Less

Pale Ale

Pale Ale - American

Supreme Champion Beer - New Zealand International Beer Awards You can only drink so many beers in a lifetime, so you better make each one count. That's… Read More

Supreme Champion Beer - New Zealand International Beer Awards

You can only drink so many beers in a lifetime, so you better make each one count. That's where we can help. Because at Epic we're obessed with creating big hop-fuelled beers. This takes a shed-load of skill. It also takes a shed-load of hops. In fact there are 23 crammed into this bottle. Many brewers would call that 'insane'. We call it flavour. Read Less

Thunder

Pale Ale - American

STONE HAMMER SERIES Travelling across the sky. A Chariot. Legendary Warrior. Fighting the giants. The people know he is fighting for them. God of Thunder.… Read More

STONE HAMMER SERIES
Travelling across the sky. A Chariot. Legendary Warrior. Fighting the giants. The people know he is fighting for them. God of Thunder. Sound of the drums, beating in your heart. Maybe you’ll shiver, maybe you’ll quiver. Quick on the trigger, thunder and lightning.

ABV: 5.8%
IBU: 35
EBC (SRM): 15
SHIELD: Stone Hammer (500ml)

HOPS:
US Columbus
US Chinook
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Lupulingus

IPA - Imperial / Double

"Wrap Your Tongue Around This" Watch out for the giant, mutant vine monsters, ready to wrap their spiney tentacles around your throat. They will commandeer… Read More

"Wrap Your Tongue Around This"

Watch out for the giant, mutant vine monsters, ready to wrap their spiney tentacles around your throat. They will commandeer your palate like a jungle of triffids. This is hop warfare on your tongue. It is seductive, contagious and hard to resist. Lash out now.

"There is no sense in getting killed by a plant" Read Less

Lager

Lager - Pale

Imagine a world without flavour. It'd be almost as bad as a world without beer. Well you're in luck. This lager is literally bursting with hop-fuelled… Read More

Imagine a world without flavour. It'd be almost as bad as a world without beer. Well you're in luck. This lager is literally bursting with hop-fuelled taste. It's been created by people inspired and obessed with keeping the flame alive. Enjoy our handiwork.

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Epicurean Coffee & Fig

Stout - Imperial / Double Oatmeal

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Awakening Pils

Pilsner - Other

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Magic Dust

IPA - American

Magic Dust is built on the original “Mosaic – One Trick Pony” beer. It has is a rich copper colour with a wonderful hoppy aroma of passionfruit and citrus,… Read More

Magic Dust is built on the original “Mosaic – One Trick Pony” beer. It has is a rich copper colour with a wonderful hoppy aroma of passionfruit and citrus, the lupulin powder delivers a sticky guava flavour with medium bitterness and a hoppy aftertaste.

Hops: Mosaic (LupuLN2™)
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Stone Hammer

IPA - American

Infinitely heavy. You must prove you are worthy to be able to pick up the Hammer. You must be brave. You must be noble. A slayer of giants. You don’t… Read More

Infinitely heavy. You must prove you are worthy to be able to pick up the Hammer. You must be brave. You must be noble. A slayer of giants. You don’t know what your actions will unleash. This beer though will unleash a massive assault of Citra/Mosaic/Simcoe. Whosoever holds this hammer if they be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor. HOPS:
US Citra
US Mosaic
US Simcoe

MALT:
Pale Ale

FLAVOURS & AROMAS:
Citrus, tropical fruit
Grapefruit & passionfruit. Read Less

Hopshine

Pale Ale - New Zealand

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IMP

IPA - American

Session IPA More dry hop than Armageddon HOPS: Comet, Columbus, Centennial, Simcoe

Session IPA
More dry hop than Armageddon HOPS: Comet, Columbus, Centennial, Simcoe Read Less

Joose Party

Pale Ale - New England / Hazy

We have used an “Epic” amount of hops as you would expect from us. We got the biggest, juiciest, stickiest Citra, Mosaic and Simcoe hops we could find.… Read More

We have used an “Epic” amount of hops as you would expect from us. We got the biggest, juiciest, stickiest Citra, Mosaic and Simcoe hops we could find. A blend of T90 and Cryo hops to give the maximum desired aromas and flavours. It’s like drizzling freshly squeezed passionfruit, mango and pineapple juice across your tongue.

5.3% alc/vol and a super low bitterness and maximum haze, will keep every Hazy-Head happy with being able to sit down and drink a few from the six pack. Share some with a friend. They will thank you for it. Read Less

Love

IPA - American

Epic Love IPA is essentially Love & Affection IPA released in 2018 as part of our Hysteria series of IPAs. This year we left out the giant Amethyst Geode… Read More

Epic Love IPA is essentially Love & Affection IPA released in 2018 as part of our Hysteria series of IPAs. This year we left out the giant Amethyst Geode ............. For this batch we decided to trial Albert Einstein’s ‘spooky action at a distance’ which is really ‘quantum entanglement’ which Albert Einstein colorfully dismissed. We have a theory that even though our giant Amethyst Geode wasn’t placed inside this batch, it should still have the same effect on the beer and the people that drink it. Read Less

Imperium

Stout - Foreign / Export

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Dankomatic

IPA - American

Like walking the streets of San Francisco in a fog. A flavour shockwave delivering awesome automatic dankness for your pleasurable needs. The reverberating… Read More

Like walking the streets of San Francisco in a fog. A flavour shockwave delivering awesome automatic dankness for your pleasurable needs. The reverberating level of fun in your mouth hole snaps shut like a wet green alligator in a technicolour dreamcoat. Synthesthesia for the masses.

Brewed with Nelson Sauvin, Comet and Simcoe hops.

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Apocalypse

IPA - Black / Cascadian Dark Ale

Black in colour, massively hoppy like an IPA. Brewed using Simcoe, Amarillo, Citra and Chinook hops.

Black in colour, massively hoppy like an IPA. Brewed using Simcoe, Amarillo, Citra and Chinook hops. Read Less

Wonder Joose

IPA - New England / Hazy

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Loves Bacon

Smoked Beer

Bacon Strips & Bacon Strips & Bacon Strips Who doesn’t love it. Let’s celebrate bacon, morning, noon and night (and match it with this tasty beer). Can… Read More

Bacon Strips & Bacon Strips & Bacon Strips Who doesn’t love it. Let’s celebrate bacon, morning, noon and night (and match it with this tasty beer). Can he swing from a web? No he can’t, cause he’s a pig. Lookout. He is a ….

Official Release at Beervana 22-23 August 2014, Westpac Stadium, Wellington

6.3% abv Smoked IPA

Bacon is so nice we have partnered with Freedom Farms who have made a bacon and beer sausage which we will be serving at Beervana with this beer.

A surprising first sip, the smokey bacon character drops back after a few tastes. The colour is a very bright burnish orange copper. The aroma is sweet yet smokey. The taste is smokey bacon with sweet caramel malt, kind of like candied bacon in a glass.

A beer with this much flavour is robust enough to match with food that are also strong in flavour including smoked ham, smoked pork, smoked salmon, smoked sausages or smoked cheeses. Read Less

Beer Blanket

Stout - Foreign / Export

You know that warm and fuzzy feeling you get after a few beers, especially when it’s cold outside, and you didn’t bring a jacket? Like you’re invincible… Read More

You know that warm and fuzzy feeling you get after a few beers, especially when it’s cold outside, and you didn’t bring a jacket? Like you’re invincible to the cold. Beware the false warmth of the ‘beer blanket’. Stay inside and enjoy responsibly. Brewed for #GABS2018. Read Less

Galactic Criminal

Pale Ale - Australian

• Galactic Criminal is a play on the hop name Galaxy. On the label we have had fun with references to famous Galactic Criminals, such as Han Solo, Rick… Read More

• Galactic Criminal is a play on the hop name Galaxy. On the label we have had fun with references to famous Galactic Criminals, such as Han Solo, Rick Sanchez, Guardians of the Galaxy and crew of Serenity.
• The label is a hat tip to a favourite 80’s arcade game Galaga.
• We have partnered the Australian grown Galaxy hops with US grown Chinook hops to give an explosive aroma of Pineapple and tropical fruits.
• The aroma is incredible, a massive tropical pineapple blast, which you could just sit and smell all day. As it is just an APA (Australia style), it is super easy drinking, not too much bitterness and wonderfully juicy and tropical, with a little prickle (not Pickle, “Boom, Big Reveal”) of those sexy US Chinook hops.
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Party Shirt

IPA - American

This is one of those beers where we had the name first and had to make the recipe to taste like the name. It was about capturing that time of the year… Read More

This is one of those beers where we had the name first and had to make the recipe to taste like the name. It was about capturing that time of the year when things are festive, its holiday time and you are feeling good. Its sunny, its warm, and you have your party shirt on. When you have your Party Shirt on you know life is good. So we decided to take that feeling and put it in a can.

A can of delicious hoppy goodness. Being a summery beer, we used a blend of Pilsner and Pale Ale malts to keep the beer colour on the light side. The flavour we wanted from the hops came from another potential name for this beer: Fruit Salad on a Stick, a follow on from IPA on a stick. We can get a bit silly with beer names.

Thinking fruit salad, Amarillo's peachy ripe summer stonefruit characters immediately jumped to mind, especially after how good it is tasting in Hopshine right now. Mosaic is just a mosaic of fruity hoppy goodness, which makes us happy. And finally a new trial hop HBC (Hop Breeding Company) 685 which has aroma descriptors of fruity, tropical, stonefruit, citrus, floral & pine. We have created a winner. This beer is kind of like what you enjoy in a Hazy IPA but without it being Hazy. Read Less

Static IPA

IPA - American

This beer has been made by taking the best parts of MAGIC DUST and HOP HARVESTER to create another beer that will be a massive hit with fans of IPA's.… Read More

This beer has been made by taking the best parts of MAGIC DUST and HOP HARVESTER to create another beer that will be a massive hit with fans of IPA's. The hops that are showcased are Riwaka and
Mosaic. As you can imagine the delicious tropical fruit characters will leave you wanting more. Read Less

LARGER

Pilsner - Imperial / Double

Tigers. Balls of Twine. Waimea Bay waves. Pyramids. Ohakune Carrots. Some things are meant to be big. Flavours. Aromas. Beer. The list is large but we… Read More

Tigers. Balls of Twine. Waimea Bay waves. Pyramids. Ohakune Carrots. Some things are meant to be big. Flavours. Aromas. Beer. The list is large but we think it should be bigger. There is a time and place for subtlety, for a delicate touch. This is not one of them. Turning the amplifier up to eleven? Yeah, that’s it. Read Less

Hysteria

IPA - American

This is the third release in the IPA Hysteria series and follows on from Gods of War and Rocket. Hysteria is a perfect name since its releases is timed… Read More

This is the third release in the IPA Hysteria series and follows on from Gods of War and Rocket. Hysteria is a perfect name since its releases is timed with the 10th Annual West Coast IPA Challenge held in Wellington, where Epic IPA’s have won four times.

This time around we have pulled out all the stops to see if we can level up the Armageddon recipe. A little change to the malt with the use of some US grown Pale Ale malt. Also some tweaks to the hops, this time including some NZ grown hops.

The NZ grown hops have had a noticeable influence on the aroma and flavour, giving it a real NZ IPA feel. Sub tropical fruit notes with hints of green mango and passionfruit. Read Less