Epic Pale Ale has a small review in Brass Magazine Issue #24 (July/August 2006) ==================================== Epic Ale You gotta try this beer as it really is 'Epic'. At the recent New Zealand International Beer Awards Epic beat 198 other entries to take out the title of Supreme Champion Beer. Epic Pale Ale from the Epic Brewing Company - the Brewery are of the hugely successful Cock & Bull Group is definitely a 'winner', and when you try it you'll go 'WOW'. This beer is 5.4%alc/vol, has a big aroma and delivers on taste. Just suck it back, or for those...

Judges at the New Zealand International Beer Awards held in Nelson in April, were full of praise for the standard of beer on show, and in particular the high quality of New Zealand entries. Overseas judge, Matilda Bay’s Brad Rogers from Australia, and chief judge, Geoff Griggs, both commented on how high brewing standards in this country are if this competition is a measure. While only five gold medals were awarded from a total of 196 entries, there were very few poor quality beers, and judges grill spoke with were unable to remember any. “The standard was higher than ever,”...

YOU don’t call a beer Epic unless you think it’s pretty good. So the brewer of Epic Pale Ale obviously thinks he’s on to something. And so did the judges at the NZ International Beer Awards, where Epic Pale Ale took the Supreme Trophy. It smells fresh, light and hardly "epic". Just a pleasant hint of ruby grapefruit over malt. It’s in the mouth that the beer lives up to its name. It fills every nook and cranny with resinous hop flavours, the like of which I’ve only come across in Emerson’s APA and the limited release Brewjolais from Mac’s....

IS this the best beer in New Zealand? Well, the judges of the New Zealand Beer Awards seem to think so. They awarded Epic Pale Ale Supreme Champion status ahead of 198 other beers at the competition in Nelson a fortnight ago. It was a bold choice. If any beer was going to jump out of the glass, it was Epic – it is extreme, almost explosive, and about as far from the mainstream as it is possible to go: the next step is to stick your head into a sackful of hops. Which is where most beer judges are...

EPIC had already won a Gold Medal in the New World Pale Ale style and the Best in Class for all Pale Ales. The Gold Medal beers from all the classes were then re-judged with EPIC Pale Ale being declared Supreme Champion of the Awards. Scoop