2.1 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 8/20
very perfumy aroma. pour is dark copper with a tan head. taste is not great. flowers, maybe smoke... maybe. spiced or something. i don’t really like this beer.
3.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a clear copper with a beige head and some lacing. Aroma is medium sweet, earthy, dark fruits and light spices. Flavor is medium sweet cherry, earthy, nutty and some alcohol burning. Light to medium body. A very pleasant beer, can’t call it smoked however.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Brown with little head. I don’t get much smoke in the nose. The flavor is brown ale all the way, with syrup in the finish. Medium bodied and sweet. I expect more smoke in my smoked beers.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
nose of wild turkey and smoke. the first of my sampler 12 pack that doesnt look like a urine sample, nice dark amber. nearly brown, but still not opaque...seems to be the mark of the smoke. smoke makes its prescence known with a sweetness, immediately bringing thoughts of my appetite to mind. no competition or even a companion for a real rauchbier but not half bad! espically for the drivel that magic hat produces. a daring beer thats executed at least half well, far from a total failure...in the context of my previous samplings of their wares that is enough to push it well beyond ’average’.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
rusty amber under a large creamy off-white head. malty aroma more of a chocolate scent than smoke. flavor is moderately smoked with milk chocolate and a meaty character of grilled hot dogs. medium bodied. a better one from magic hat.
2.4 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
(Bottle). Sweet and sour aroma, not altogether pleasant. Dark orange amber color with small off-white head. Flavor definitely has smokiness, and some malts and hops. But the balance isn’t there. No match for Schlenkerla.
2 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 8/20
UPDATED: AUG 26, 2008 Draft. Free pint last friday night at Hop House in Pittsburgh. I am certainly glad that I didn’t pay for it. Beautiful deep mahogany color. Aroma is somewhat sweet, but there is something that I can’t quite define in the background. Flavor is....well... a little odd. Like the aroma I can’t quite define it, but I find it unpleasant.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle 08’. Mossy, sweet, dank nose. Roasted carmel pour with thin off white head. Sweet and big bodied. It is not heavily smoked compared to Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Urbock I tired several days ago. That’s one to go for if you want the BBQ and beef jerkey flavors. This is the best Magic Hat that I’ve had thus far.
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