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Magic Hat #9

Magic Hat #9 - Fruit Beer

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 Percentile 
52
overall
Brewed by Magic Hat Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer

South Burlington, Vermont USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
12393.07/5.03.06/5.04.6%79.4Flute
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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 beer brewed clandestinely and given a name whose meaning is never revealed. Why #9? Why, indeed. A sort of dry, crisp, fruity, refreshing, not-quite pale ale. #9 is really impossible to describe because there’s never been anything else quite like it. Fermented with our 150 year old strain of top-fermenting English yeast.
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 Block (363), West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/56/103/516/20
Jan 23, 2009  
Light orange pour with a large fluffy whit head. Light aroma and a bit of fruitiness. Flavor of citrus upfront then some pale malts, fruit, and maybe vanilla at the finish. Light body.


 tjthresh (1749), Greenfield, Indiana, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Jan 23, 2009  
Pour birght golden with a bit of white head. Both the nose and flavor feature apricot with a dab of hops. Light body and fizzy. Short finish that makes you wonder if you had actually drank anything.


raradel (33), Greenville, South Carolina, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/104/516/20
Jan 22, 2009  
I would bathe #9 if it was more cost efficient. This is a lighter beer with taste, a great, different flavor and aroma. You could drink 1 of these with dinner at a nice restaurant or get shit faced at a party with no awkward looks. You can find this beer easily but it is not overly commercialized. Great choice, dont be a snob.


 tarheels86 (705), Washington DC, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/512/20
Jan 17, 2009  
330 mL and on tap. Pours a clear copper with a small white head that dwindles down to a thin layer. Aromas of dried apricot, bread, citrus. Taste is sour apricot with some white sugar and biscuity malts. Overall watery and very much apricot.


smooch (95), Sylvania, Ohio, USA
1.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/53/103/57/20
Jan 16, 2009  
There is a really nasty flavor here. Maybe it tastes like something, but I don’t know what. A turd dipped in carmel and tar with a lilac potpourri dropped on. Uggh. As it got warmer, that flavor actually became less prodominant thankfully. The description says 150 yr old strain of yeast. Tastes like a sock full of sweat with 150 yr old hops in it. If this is good beer, I’m headed to AA right now. Color is a really light straw color. Everytime I take a drink I can’t believe how bad this tastes. They must have been going for different and comparing this to good beer. It is very different from good beer.


fdr137 (32), , New York, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/55/102/511/20
Jan 13, 2009  
12 Oz bottle. Clear golden color. Fruity apricot aroma. Taste is fruity with only slight bitterness at the end. Had it before... a little watery in the mouth feel.


sar50 (12), , Rhode Island, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Jan 7, 2009  
On-tap at the Mews Tavern. No tthe first time I have had this beer and I continue to like it. Color is pale orange/yellow and carbonation/bubbles are very inviting. Smells of fresh apricots, though not overpoering Taste is malty, fruity and sweet. Apricots are very present, but the backbone of the beer is not overmatched. Mild fruitiness and medium carbonation enables this beer to be highly sessionable.


awharr02 (6), USA
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1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/102/54/20
Dec 30, 2008  
The best thing about this brew is it’s color. Pretty hard pour into a tulip glass and not much of a head and what was there didn’t last. Thin mouthfeel, flavor and aroma of apricots, which i didn’t particularly like. Not enough hops for my taste



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