Magic Hat 60 Winks Ale

Formerly brewed at Magic Hat Brewing Company
Style: Classic German Pilsener
South Burlington, Vermont USA

(12oz bottle, best by end of March) Medium off-white head atop a lightly hazed straw body. Aroma is medium sweet, floral, some dough/cereal. Taste is medium sweet, grassy/spicy, lemon, some apricot, cereal, light honey. Light-medium body, decent crispness, light acidity. I wonder if one of the 60 winks is devoted to calling a pilsener an ale?

12oz bottle. Poured a medium and clear golden color with a large sized white head. Aromas of wet grass and citrus. Tastes of grass, citrus, and caramel.

12 oz bottle-pours a white head and hazy yellow color. Aroma is fruit, spicy, grain. Taste is fruit, spicy/herbal hops, grain/wheat/malt-some caramel. Occasional. OK carbonation.

Pours a fizzy yellow/straw color with a thin white head. Tastes ans smells of crisp malt and mellow citrussy hops with peppery spicy splashes. Not bad for what it is.

Joe’s Garage, 12 oz. Dark straw pour, with some pale malt and hopcit aroma. Light palate heft, with some hop, corn flakey pale malt, and fruit flavors. Uninspiring, but I’d drink it again, if that makes any sense.

12 oz bottle from City Market in Burlington, VT (December 2006) served a bit above fridge temperature in a Christoffel glass. As eaglefan notes, rather dull-looking for a pils, leaden yellow-gold with a moderate quick-dissipating white head....some decent German hops in the nose, honey, light floral notes but nothing much to get excited about, lowpowered and unoriginal.....definitely more to this beer once you taste it though, a really lovely creamy maltiness throughout, rich and very full for a pils but nicely balanced by the Saaz-y bitterness that gradually creeps up on you and makes you notice it by the finish.....light mineralic qualities at the finish and sharp bitterness belie the slightly too-smoth overall feel of it; carbonation a bit on the low side. Pretty solid all in all despite the ugly appearance and somewhat boring aroma. Nice label too but Magic Hat, I’d think you might know that a pilsner isn’t an ale?

Poured from the 12 oz bottle with a slightly hazy yellow-orange body and a lightly rocky but diminishing white head. The aroma is lightly flowery, a tad bit Saazy, and inviting. The flavor is distinctly biscuity, but not in a real cookie-malty way. The pleasant enough little bitterness counteracts well enough. Still, I wouldn’t put this ahead of a good quality pilsner ... not sure how this is labeled an "ale" but classified as a "pilsner". Kolsch maybe?(#2705, 2/15/2007)

12 oz bottle. Pours golden yellow with a quick collapsing head. Aroma is bready and just a bit metalic. Taste is a bit on the sweet side with some corn and a nice hop bite. Minus points for bad head retention, this ain’t bad. Finishes with a lemony bitterness.