EPA
Silver Moon Brewing
- From:
- Silver Moon Brewing
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- Not listed
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.03 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 12, 2004
- Added:
- Oct 12, 2004
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by RedDiamond from Oregon
3.03/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
3.03/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Note: this review is a bit dated as the brewery has since relocated and adapted to a new brewing system.
Though this brew is billed as an IPA, the origins of its name remain cryptical. A paean to the Environmental Protection Agency perhaps? Hard to say. The most compelling thing that can be said of this brew is that it has the irrefutable quality of rawness to it. The aroma is of husked grains and smells like haybales in summer. The taste is likewise grainy and unfinished and suggests to me that the mashing sequence may be incomplete. There would appear to be a lack of fermentable sugars at play here, or conversely, an abundance of unconverted starches.
EPA is topaz color, slightly hazy, and arrives with a thin film of head. I enjoyed my pint outdoors on a crisp autumn afternoon when the flavor of the beer was augmented by my proximity to the hop garden where the outdoor tables are. In the absence of this ambient enhancement, the flavor has a distinct and bothersome pencil shaving property. The smell is more like a brewery than a beer.
Im willing to accept this beer at face value. It may well be an IPA with an acquired taste that I havent yet acquired. But the lack of malt sugars tips the bittering out of balance, and the aromatic properties of the style never emerge. All of this suggests to me that perhaps EPA stands for Early Prototype Ale.
Post Script: its Extra Pale Ale.
Oct 12, 2004Though this brew is billed as an IPA, the origins of its name remain cryptical. A paean to the Environmental Protection Agency perhaps? Hard to say. The most compelling thing that can be said of this brew is that it has the irrefutable quality of rawness to it. The aroma is of husked grains and smells like haybales in summer. The taste is likewise grainy and unfinished and suggests to me that the mashing sequence may be incomplete. There would appear to be a lack of fermentable sugars at play here, or conversely, an abundance of unconverted starches.
EPA is topaz color, slightly hazy, and arrives with a thin film of head. I enjoyed my pint outdoors on a crisp autumn afternoon when the flavor of the beer was augmented by my proximity to the hop garden where the outdoor tables are. In the absence of this ambient enhancement, the flavor has a distinct and bothersome pencil shaving property. The smell is more like a brewery than a beer.
Im willing to accept this beer at face value. It may well be an IPA with an acquired taste that I havent yet acquired. But the lack of malt sugars tips the bittering out of balance, and the aromatic properties of the style never emerge. All of this suggests to me that perhaps EPA stands for Early Prototype Ale.
Post Script: its Extra Pale Ale.
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