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RATINGS: 1613   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.05   EST. CALORIES: 153   ABV: 5.1%
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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.


3.6
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 14/20
doubleo (1444) - San Diego, California, USA - JAN 30, 2008
Pours a light orange color, slightly hazy. Just a little bit of white head that fades pretty quick. Smells of apricots. Tastes like apricots. Mouthfeel is thin, good carbonation, a little metallic feeling. I think this beer tastes great. I get plenty of the fruit flavor.

2.6
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 9/20
Darkover (1440) - Columbus, Ohio, USA - MAR 27, 2007
Golden color with a small white head. Sweet fruity aroma. Flavor is fruity and a little grainy.

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 12/20
Arayaga2 (1435) - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - SEP 26, 2006
Weak willed (like most of MH’s beers) with a pleasant apricotty aroma. Delicate fruity flavor same as aroma. This is a watered down refreshment beer that is best consumed in place of perrier.

1.9
   AROMA 4/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 3/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 7/20
wunderbier (1434) - Tampere, FINLAND - JUN 4, 2004
Nasty apricots on nasty toasted white bread. Deep gold body. Moderately sweet flavor becomes a lightly sweet, lightly bitter. No no no. Medium body, oily texture, lively carbonation. The bottom line is: ack.

3
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 11/20
Trev (1424) - Lakeville, Minnesota, USA - JUL 17, 2009
Pours dark gold with a thick creamy white head. Aroma is strong fruit (apricot) That’s all I can get from it. flavour is flat malt with biscuity tones trying to get through and semi tart fruitiness. very low hop.

3.2
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
Zinister (1417) - Houston, Texas, USA - DEC 10, 2008
Thanks to Haslinger for this beer. Pours a clear gold with good white head. Nose of honey and apricot and some hops. Flavor is apricot and strawberry with some sweetness and light hops. Crisp and clean flavor with fruity finish. Good beer. Thanks Haslinger.

3.7
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 3/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
igneous1 (1415) - Davenport, Iowa, USA - DEC 28, 2003
hazy medium golden, nice white head. very fruity and very floral aroma. flavor is exactly the same...some grapefruit, some mango and unripe peach and pear. WAIT!!!! i just read austinpowers rating and realized mango wasnt the flavor...it is the apricot..just had to point that out

2.7
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 5/10   PALATE 2/5   OVERALL 9/20
OldMrCrow (1415) - Seattle, Washington, USA - JUL 5, 2006
From a bottle hauled back from Boston on a recent trip.

Pours light orange with a moderate white head. The aroma is rather intriguing - mild grassy hops and apricot sorbet. But the flavor and palate comes up far short - wow is this a thin, mild beer compared to what I had expected. Imagine a watery golden ale mixed with decaf apricot tea. Not much more to say here, though I guess it would go down alright on a really hot summer’s day.


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