Magic Hat Jinx

Formerly brewed at Magic Hat Brewing Company
Style: Smoked
South Burlington, Vermont USA

12 oz bottle. Pours a clear brown with orange hints and a thin soapy tan head. Aroma is malty. Lots of bread, dough, fruit, and a touch of smoke. Flavor starts off fruity. Apples and caramel then gets to dark flavors of brown sugar, peat, toffee, raisins, and chocolate. The peat and smoke is not very strong but lends a drying earthy finish to the flavor. A little watery fades to the flavor of spit too quick. I like doughy notes in beers and magic hat seems to always produce that note. Decent.

Brown, fleeting light tan head. Interesting musty, fruity aroma. Not too much smoky flavor comes through, but this beer has a great mix of roasted earthy malt and fruit flavors. Overall interesting and worth a try.

Dark brown pour with an off-white head. Fruity malt nose, slight peat smokiness. Spcy malt flavor with a touch of raisins, lightly smokey. Very good.

This beer looks beautiful. It has a very comforting appearance, reminiscent of the flat root beer served from the tap at my father’s old volunteer firehouse. The creamy smooth pour, and very nice, but shy tan head bely the carbonated tang on the tongue that awaits, followed by a sticky sweetness, giving the initial impression that this beer is less than done. At first, smells of apple cider, but the aroma fades quickly, leaving faint hints of butterscotch, later revisited on the tongue with tastes of sweet malt extract and finished with dry dark chocolate, and thin alcohol. This beer knows it can, it knows it can, with all its sweet flavors, but it just doesn’t get past the finish line. I feel like I’m drinking wort, not beer.

Decent brew here, caught somewhere between a Brown Ale and an American Strong Ale. Mildly roasted coffee nose with some woody malt and a nice semi-sweetness. Medium brown pour with a creamy 3/4" light brown head and minimal lacing. Malty body with a creamy yet fizzy carbonated mouth feel. Flavor is big on the malts with hints of toasted bread, peaty-woody malt, a touch of smoke along with some minor coffee and chocolate tastes. All of these flavors are rather tame, but they meld together well. All around this is a nice mildly strong brown ale, I liked the couple I sampled.

pours transparent dark brown with a thin off white head. aroma is slightly nutty with a hint of alcohol. tastes of wood, very light smoke, and maple sugar. very little bitter edge, quite smooth. body is light. carbonation is mild. nice depth, and very drinkable.

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a moderately dark brown color with a small tan head. The aroma was lightly sweet and malty. The flavor was dry, tangy, nutty and slightly woody. There was a nice touch of smoke that did not overwhelm. The finish was medium length and dry with a lightly woody element. Interesting.

A fine dark brew with a light head. It starts out a little bitter, with notes of coffee and citrus, and the flavor of roasted grains. Then it shifts to a fizzy, hoppy finish - a nice blend of flavors, and probably my favorite Magic Hat so far!