Magic Hat Hocus Pocus

12oz bottle. Pours a very pale yellow - cloudy with deeper gold highlights. The head pours thick and white, but very short-lived (though it does leave thick scads of lace on the glass). The aroma is orange-blossom honey with a smidgen of spicy, bitter hops. The flavor starts crackery with some notes of wheat and unexpected levels of mellow hops. At mid-palate are subtle notes of herbal tea along with a subtle maltiness and more of that mellow, earthy bitterness. The finish is dry and definitely more bitter than sweet. The flavor, in general, is quite soft and light - with the hops standing out more than expected. The mouthfeel is very sprtizy and bubbly from heavy levels of carbonation. The body is medium - fuller than one might expect from the muted flavors. Overall, a very drinkable beer - it reminds me greatly of an English bitter I made recently (which is slightly disturbing that both of our beers were so far from style as to meet in the middle somewhere...)

Little aroma or flavor with a bitter finish. Reminded me a great deal of Hocus Pocus but more bitter.

Not much going on here. Weak aroma, my wife said it smelled like her grandmother’s garage. Very light, yeasty flavor.

Bottle. Clear golden pour with a thick white head. Has a lemony, citrusy aroma with a little hop spice. Similar taste, lots of citrus and hop spice with a wheat base. Not great, but not bad either.

This was a favoriteof mine in my really early beer infancy and I haven’t had it since. I was expecting to be seriously underwhelmed, but was pleasantly surprised. Rare to find in this style, a strong wheat presence was there with some nicely complimenting fruity zest. The only knock was a carbonation level which was a little much. A good beer.