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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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 maugus4ever (121), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Sep 3, 2008  
Pours amber with a finger of white head. Aroma is very fruity and sweet, but the beer has a little bit of bite to it. It still maintains the fruity taste, but the light hop kick keeps the flavors crisp. This is definitely a unique brew.


 sirpsycho (342), Murrysville, Pennsylvania, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/512/20
Sep 2, 2008  
Bottle at Mad Mex (Monroeville). Pours a clear amber, thin white head. Aroma is malt, some hops and floral notes. Flavor is a little sweet, apricot, maybe something else I can’t put my finger on. Nice smooth finish, easy drinking beer.


 satan165 (542), River Grove, Illinois, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/101/57/101/515/20
Sep 1, 2008  
very odd. of course, this reeks of fruit. but also seems to have some kind of malt backbone. the weird part is that this seems to be the same malt (in aroma and flavor) as circus boy, but circus boy is a wheat? well, i guess maybe this is too. at any rate, unlike many other fruit beers out there which overwhelm you with fruit so much that you have little left to remind yourself its a beer, this at least has some kind of malt in there. hops are at a minimum but the fruit flavor is sort of subdued and more properly described, strange. very dull appearance, perfectly bland gold/yellow like a rice beer or urine, at least the aroma/flavor has something to offer. this is indeed intreguing.


 Imaena (259), Portland, Maine, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Sep 1, 2008  
Bottle 10oz. 08’. Pour is golden straw with a nice white head. Aroma is fruit and malts. Flavor is sweet apricots and honey. Light bodied refreshing beer.


 NDbeerdrinker (164), Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/513/20
Sep 1, 2008  
Draft. Pours a yellow with big fluffy white head. Aroma...fruit. Taste is the same (apricot and berry). Refreshing and different beer.


wellschw (1), , Virginia, USA
does not count click to see why this rating of Magic Hat #9 does not count
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/58/103/513/20
Aug 31, 2008  
Tried one on draft today. Very fruity (Orange-apricot ?) nice flavor. I like this one!


 PhatB420 (126), Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/55/103/513/20
Aug 31, 2008  
This is a nice beer, a nice ale with a small bite to it. Nothing extraordinary but a decent malt infused beer from Vermont.


TOSG55 (75), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Aug 31, 2008  
Bottle. Pours a yellow orange with a finger-thick white head. Aroma of wheat and sweet fruit. The flavor is dominated by apricots, but yeast and wheat are also apparent. Tasty and very drinkable.



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