2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
UPDATED: AUG 12, 2012
Date: June 23, 2012
Mode: Bottle
Source: Total Wine, GA
Appearance: clear copper, fine off white head
Aroma: dry and earthy aroma, floral and herbal, background fruity berry sweetness
Flavor: flavor starts off sweet berries before turning earthy with a berry tartness
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.8/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ** /4
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
12oz bolttle, thanks maniac. Small off-white head lightly hazed light amber body. Aroma is moderately sweet, berry/fruity, light acetone. Taste is moderately sweet, berry, light melon. Light-medium body, low carbonation.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
12oz bottle-thanks Tim-pours cloudy yellow/gold with a dissipating fizzy/foamy offwhite head. Aroma is berry, bready-light medium malt. Taste is berry, bready-light medium malt, 2nd spice/herbal hops.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from Half Time. Pours hazy amber with a very transient head. Aromas of bread and dark berry. Med body. Flavor is definitely dark berry with some bready malt and a light hop bitterness.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
A hazed lightly reddish amber ale with a thin off white head. In aroma, a smooth chalky malt wit light berry notes. In mouth, a sweet caramel malt with light raspberry notes and light butterscotch. Tasted at Raquette River Beer and Wine Fest, July 13 2012.
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
Cloudy yellow, small white head. Aroma of tart blueberries. Taste is bitter lemon and bitter fruit.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle in NYC with Sander. Pours cloudy orange with a weak, white foam head. Nose holds lots of blueberries, some doughy bread. Medium sweet flavor, sugary dough, blueberry muffins. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Sugary finish, more blueberries and elderberries, some blueberry pancakes, muffins, dough, bread. It’s OK.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Pours turbid orangy copper with minimal off-white head. Nose is hopcitrus, earthy and slightly funky, with mild berry notes. Tastes of malt, elderberry, mild funk, medium palate heft and complexity. Decent.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled. Poured cloudy medium golden with a well-retained off-white head. The aroma picked up sweeter berries and tangy wheat.. nice balance. The flavor found wheat and a pinch of honey at the core, with mostly sweet berries emanating outward (some tart seeds as well).. finished with a good combo of sweeter berries and tangy wheat. Light-bodied with tight-bubbled carbonation on the palate.. good feel and flow.. this was better than expected.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
12 ounce bottle from the summer sampler. And somehow Magic Hat gets to be my 5200th rating. How’d that happen? Pours an almost murky orange color with a thin white head. Poor head retention. Aroma of wheat and berry-flavored Life Savors. The taste is wheat, citrus, banana, berries. Medium bodied and highly carbonated. I kinda like this beer, but that doesn’t mean its good.
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