Magic Hat Jinx

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

Bottle, shared by NachlamSie. Pours hazy amber brown with thin beige head. The aroma is some neutral hops and caramel malt, maybe some dark spiciness. The flavor is caramel sweetness at first, then gets an ever so slight woody and planty bitterness. The peat comes out some in the finish, but remains pretty secondary overall. Decent.

Bottle split with Tronraner. Pours a deep amber with a small tan head. The aroma brings to mind "generic". I’m not sure what it is, something about the common malt- hop combination, but it’s rather non-descript. I get just regular caramel, wood, beery type stuff in the nose. Nothing bad, though. The flavor allows more of this peat to come out. This is not a very smoky beer at all, but the finish does have rewarding hints at a cigar and a fine smoky scotch. I do not get much meat or bacon, rather, from this. Just some silky smoky flavors. This is a very subtle smoked beer and appropriate for the fall time, but not extraordinary. This pairs well with BBQ.

Nice brown pour. Aroma of malt. Only very slight smoked aroma and flavor. Minimal hops flavor.

Bottle Dark amber pour, decent head, no lacing. Thick Earthy aroma and flavor. A bit smoked flavor, but really not much. Pretty good brew, would have again.

Poured a pretty ruby amber with a slightly creamy mild tan head. The aroma was nice and malty, caramel, a lite smoked aroma, and some medium hop notes in the background. The flavor was smoked peat, malt, a bit sweet, lite hop background, mainly malt. Nice smoked.

Draft from Dinosaur BBQ in Syracuse. Poured a purplish brown, small to no head. Smells of apricot and annis. Tasted smokey and a little licorice palate. Very interesting beer, and totally recommended.

From a bottle poured nice amber color with a fair amount of head. Flavor similar to an abbey ale. Light malt flavor with a hoppy finish.

Growler form the brewery. Dark mahogeny color, head starts strong but the party fizzles out, (could be that it was a growler). Malty, peat moss, earthy aroma and flavor with some chocolate. Drank this wiithout knowing it was a smoke ale.