Some collaborations just keep finding higher platforms. Full Send NZIPA is our fourth collaboration with AJ Hackett Bungy, and this time we have gone all in with a new hop variety from Eggers Hops: ESHcapade. Epic Beer and AJ Hackett Bungy have always made sense together. One is built on hops, the other on humans willingly stepping off very high things. Different industries, same energy: commitment, adrenaline, and a healthy disrespect for boring. This beer was created for the NZ IPA Challenge at Smith’s Craft Beer Bar in Queenstown, and we wanted to capture the feeling of Queenstown itself. Big...

Coming of Age is our new 10% imperial stout, created to mark Epic turning 21. Part of it has already become a thread in Jake Porter, part has been canned as Brewer’s Cut, and the rest is now resting in Jack Daniel’s barrels from our friends at Pōkeno Whisky. Taste it now before oak, whiskey, and time change the ending.

Porter has always carried weight. The style emerged in London in the early 1700s and became closely associated with the working porters who moved goods through the city: across wharves, markets, warehouses, streets, and cellars. It was a beer tied to labour, trade, industry, and the growth of London itself. Dark, sustaining, and full of malt character, porter became one of the great beer styles of its time. There is also an old story that porter may have developed from a blended beer known as “three threads”, where drinkers were served a mix of beers from different casks. Whether that...

Walk into the taproom and you'll notice something new on the racking. A row of Jack Daniel's barrels, each one chalked with a bold 21 on the end.

Inside them is our Coming of Age Imperial Stout — 10% ABV, brewed to mark Epic's 21st year. We started this brewery on 14 December 2005. Seven months in Jack Daniel's oak, then bottled for our 21st birthday in December.

Armageddon wasn’t made to follow a trend. Released in 2008, Epic calls it New Zealand’s first American-style IPA and its most awarded beer. Bold, bitter, citrusy, and still hitting harder than most beers half its age.