Magic Hat #9

	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
1250	3.06/5.0	3.06/5.0	4.6%	79.4	Flute

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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epf33 (222), Fairfax, Virginia, USA

3.8	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.8	7/10	3/5	9/10	5/5	14/20

Feb 23, 2008

fruity taste, love the apricot after taste it leaves in your mouth, love the way the bottle looks too, could just get lost in the art when i drink this one!

garretjax (103), Colorado, USA

2.7	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.7	8/10	3/5	4/10	3/5	9/20

Feb 22, 2008

Golden yellow with a slight haze and a thin white head. Big apricot aroma. Light carbonation and a easy feeling body. Tart apricot flavor rounding off slowly. A dry thin finish.

ElGaucho56 (390), USA

2.5	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.5	5/10	3/5	5/10	2/5	10/20

Feb 18, 2008

Pours a slightly bright orange with very minimal head. Nose is very strong apricot with a little caramel sweetness. There seemed also some musty, plasticy yeast tones that seemed a little unusual. More apricot on the palate, instead of being integrated it overwhelms the rest of the beer. Not particularly impressed.

idbowman82 (62), Painesville, Ohio, USA

1.9	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
1.9	4/10	4/5	3/10	3/5	5/20

Feb 16, 2008

Pours very hazy and amber/gold in color. Very little head that dissipates almost immediately. The aroma is pretty straightforward: hops and apricot. The taste is about the same...malty with apricot. There is virtually no depth, and there is so little malt/hop in the actual taste that I found myself thinking i was tasting dried apricots soaked in a low-concentration rubbing alcohol. Not enjoyable, and certainly not something I’d recommend.

WickerBrew (312), Chicago, Illinois, USA

3.3	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.3	6/10	4/5	6/10	4/5	13/20

Feb 13, 2008

This is great as long as you dont mind the sweetness. Not overly fruity so it is more than a novelty beer, but not to the point where I could drink it all the time. A nice change of pace, but its too smooth, I need something with a bit more of a kick.

Palidor19 (1772), Brandon, Florida, USA

2.4	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.4	4/10	3/5	5/10	3/5	9/20

Feb 12, 2008

it says its a fruit beer but it tastes like old fruit gum. astrigent tasting malts with unpleesant hops makes this undesirable

emerson430 (87), Lakewood, Ohio, USA

3.1	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.1	6/10	4/5	6/10	3/5	12/20

Feb 10, 2008

Nice amber color with a off white head that dissipates quickly. Interesting hop/apricot aroma that continues on to be present in the aftertaste. Interesting balance, sometimes a little floral for my taste, but still quite good.

amateurBeerfan (24), Pennsylvania, USA

3	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3	5/10	4/5	6/10	3/5	12/20

Feb 9, 2008

A good sturdy fruity beer that has a good amber color and a nice fruit aftertaste.

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