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Magic Hat #9

Percentile
52
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bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
12483.06/5.03.06/5.04.6%79.3Flute
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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 TheBeerMaster (100), Little Falls, New Jersey, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/103/514/20
Oct 12, 2008  
Bright gold pour with a white head. Apricoty with some vanilla elements. Really good. The caps are cool too.


 kassner (440), Wexford, Pennsylvania, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/103/512/20
Oct 12, 2008  
On tap at magoos. Dirty blond with slight haze, slight odor, earthy malts with clean bitter finish, Hint of vanilla


 thornecb (1751), Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/514/20
Oct 9, 2008  
Pours bright gold into a shaker. Bright white head recedes to skim surface. Apricot aromas. Apricot upfront, middle and back. Dry sour apricot finish.


tubehead (10), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/512/20
Oct 8, 2008  
Out of the bottle, it pours a whitish-gold color with a thinner head. It has a metallic-apricot flavor tempered with generous hops. It has a medium-bitter flavor. almost like an IPA/Apricot Ale hybrid. It was interesting and drinkable - probably my favorite in the Magic Hat line. For those that like fruity beers, this is a good one. For those that don’t, well, keep moving.


 screigh (260), Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/510/20
Oct 6, 2008  
Poured a hazy straw, maybe very light copper color. Soapy looking white head with some lasting power, no lacing. Smells somewhat dirty and fruity. Some hint of apricot, a little of that dirty smell and a bit tart. Very middle of the road for me, not really my style and I would not buy again.


Fearless99 (14), Oregon, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Oct 5, 2008  
Tap in Columbus, OH. Golden beer, decent white head. Aroma has a hint of the apricots that are described to be in this beer. Flavor very floral with a hint of the apricot. Little malt flavor accompanies the beer. Very smooth going down. To me, this is an example of a well-balanced fruit beer. Too often I taste all fruit or no fruit. This has a pleasant touch of the apricot.


 guyinchicago (526), marengo, Illinois, USA
1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/52/102/52/20
Oct 3, 2008    Updated: Oct 4, 2008
i really had a hard time trying to taste any fruit in this one.if this is a friut beer at all so im ging to grade it as if it were so based on New Glarus belguim red being my favorite in that style i would have to rate this as not being one one hundreth of big red but if i were to rate it as a apa i would give it a 2.4 very cool lable


 KnutAlbert (3115), Oslo, Norway
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Oct 3, 2008  
Bottle in NYC. Very rich and spicy aroma. Brewed with apricots, and there is a soft, sweet and seducive apricot flavour. Sort of back porch in the shade type of beer. I liked it!



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