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Magic Hat Brewing Company

 

This one pours a mostly clear light yellow color, with a small head, and a bit of lacing.

This smells like piney hops, lemon, pear, and a bit of biscuity malt.

This is pretty basic, but there's nothing really wrong with it. There's a nice crisp hop character - light, citrusy, pine, etc, with just a hint of malt character. I could imagine having a few of these.

This is light bodied, and fairly crisp, and very drinkable. There are no really major off-flavors here.

This is much better than I would have expected from Magic Hat.

 

Appearance: Pours a slightly cloudy, medium, but bright orange color with a strong bright and foamy head. SRM of 11-12. (4.00)

Aroma: Strong aromas of pear, green grapes, lemon dish soap, white wine, citrus. A bit of flower. Strong pear, white wine, and lemon citrus mostly. (4.25)

Flavor: Flavor follows the nose. Lemon, green grape, pear, but more green-grape, less pear. There's again lemon, but it's sweeter. A sudsy pale malt sweetness comes through. Flavorful. (4.00)

Feel: Medium-bodied and sudsy. Well-carbonated. Sudsy, but doesn't land too dry nor too sweet. Sudsy, but not prickly. A nice balance. (4.00)

Compared to Keller Pils by Summit: Pours a much darker orange color with a stronger head. More lemon, pear, and white wine flavors. Less peach and tropical flavors. Similar body, but slightly less carbonation and yeast. Finishes similar in bitterness. Less yeast and drying bitterness, but more floral/herbal bitterness.

Overall: A great IPL. Looks and feels fantastic and matches it with the aroma and flavor. Nice and sudsy without leaning bitter, dry, or sweet. Just flavorful, clean, and sudsy. A fantastic IPL even though I'm drinking it 10 months old. (Final Rating:
4.11)

Served from a 12 oz can. Poured a 1” head, was a light honey color, and had a hoppy aroma. A very smooth, interesting lager since it tasted more like an IPA than a lager. I enjoyed it very much.

 

 

 

 

Pours amber with a cream colored head.

Citrus, floral, and biscuit malt in the nose.

Clean and crisp with citus bitter orange and grapefruit backed by piney notes and some floral hung on a biscuit malt backbone. A solid lager.

 

 

LOOK: Pours a mostly clear pale yellow with a 3 finger all white head that immediately starts to settle, leaving some side glass sticky lace.

AROMA: Herbal, musky hops, cold metal, citrus hints.
TASTE: Lots of hops for a Lager. So not typical of the Lager label. Hops are tart, and drying, so here again not typical for a Lager.
Not a bad brew, just not very true to its style.

 

 

 

From the 12 fl. oz. bottle. 2018 batch is the only date I know. Sampled on December 21, 2018.

It pours a foggy looking yellow-orange with a soft white head that remains on top for the session.

The aroma emits a citrus, lemon, and herbal hop sensation with that typical Magic Hat yeast and a little white bread crust.

The body is medium.

The herbal notes are more apparent in the taste than the other characters I mentioned. Mildly sweet and mildly bitter.