#9 | Magic Hat Brewing Company
Brewed by:
Magic Hat Brewing Company
Vermont, United States
magichat.net
Style: Fruit / Vegetable Beer
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 5.10%
Availability: Year-round
Notes / Commercial Description:
A beer cloaked in secrecy. An ale whose mysterious and unusual palate will swirl across your tongue and ask more questions than it answers. A sort of dry, crisp, refreshing, not-quite pale ale. #9 is really impossible to describe because there's never been anything else quite like it.
20 IBU
Added by BeerAdvocate on 06-09-1998
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Ratings: 5,790 | Reviews: 1,721
3.37/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Pours a hazy orange color with a one-finger foamy white head. Smells of toasted malts, a hint of apricot. Tastes of bready malt with just a faint fruitness, finishes fruity. Medium-light body with medium carbonation, foamy mouthfeel and crisp finish.
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look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Pours a hazy orange color with a one-finger foamy white head. Smells of toasted malts, a hint of apricot. Tastes of bready malt with just a faint fruitness, finishes fruity. Medium-light body with medium carbonation, foamy mouthfeel and crisp finish.
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3.38/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.51/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.46/5 rDev +2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured from 12oz bottle into glass. No bottling date information found.
Clear, medium amber colored body. Creamy off white head sticks around. Leaves a few spots of lacing.
Aroma is predominately floral and slightly sweet. Grassy, vegetal in the background.
Quite a floral grape emphasis in the flavor, with some minor hop bitterness at the end. Rather dry finish.
Medium thick body. Okay carbonation.
Tastes like a old school craft creation. Comes from the "Magic Hat". Overall, kind of thin in flavor but has that grape floral signature.
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look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured from 12oz bottle into glass. No bottling date information found.
Clear, medium amber colored body. Creamy off white head sticks around. Leaves a few spots of lacing.
Aroma is predominately floral and slightly sweet. Grassy, vegetal in the background.
Quite a floral grape emphasis in the flavor, with some minor hop bitterness at the end. Rather dry finish.
Medium thick body. Okay carbonation.
Tastes like a old school craft creation. Comes from the "Magic Hat". Overall, kind of thin in flavor but has that grape floral signature.
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4.54/5 rDev +33.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
3.5/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.97/5 rDev +17.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
great beer; i’ve been drinking it for years, but reading that the style was “fruit/vegetable beer” kind of made me feel like i was living the end of Soylent Green
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look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
great beer; i’ve been drinking it for years, but reading that the style was “fruit/vegetable beer” kind of made me feel like i was living the end of Soylent Green
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3.28/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.43/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.33/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.4/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Decent beer that’s easy to drink and always a safe bet. Nice golden color, some nice head without much lingering lacing. Smells faintly of fruit, tastes mainly of malt and a little fruity sweetness. Not much hop taste at all. Thin mouthfeel, decent carbonation. Slightly sweet but overly so.
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look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Decent beer that’s easy to drink and always a safe bet. Nice golden color, some nice head without much lingering lacing. Smells faintly of fruit, tastes mainly of malt and a little fruity sweetness. Not much hop taste at all. Thin mouthfeel, decent carbonation. Slightly sweet but overly so.
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3.41/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
4.84/5 rDev +42.8%
look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
3.63/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
4.62/5 rDev +36.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Poured from a botttle to a glass.
L: gold color with solid lacing and head retention. Carbonation seems non-existent.
S: like a small citrus hop profile with grapes/apples. almost like a sweet wine.
T: a sweet IPA with a grape/apple wine feel. Not too bitter.
F: easy finish with little carbonation. Extremely crisp.
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look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Poured from a botttle to a glass.
L: gold color with solid lacing and head retention. Carbonation seems non-existent.
S: like a small citrus hop profile with grapes/apples. almost like a sweet wine.
T: a sweet IPA with a grape/apple wine feel. Not too bitter.
F: easy finish with little carbonation. Extremely crisp.
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3.75/5 rDev +10.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.49/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Look: Hazy amber with a huge white head of bubbly foam.
Smell: Malt, some citrus and fruitiness, and a bit of hop at the back.
Taste: Very fruity, almost like juice mixed with malt liquor. Balanced by hop bitterness and flavor.
Mouthfeel: Thin and highly carbonated.
Overall: Pretty okay. I would have liked a bit more of a strong fruit flavor.
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look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Look: Hazy amber with a huge white head of bubbly foam.
Smell: Malt, some citrus and fruitiness, and a bit of hop at the back.
Taste: Very fruity, almost like juice mixed with malt liquor. Balanced by hop bitterness and flavor.
Mouthfeel: Thin and highly carbonated.
Overall: Pretty okay. I would have liked a bit more of a strong fruit flavor.
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#9 from Magic Hat Brewing Company
Beer rating:
3.39 out of
5 with
5,790 ratings
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