Magic Hat Jinx

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

Dark rusty red/brown with a pleasant activity and 1/2-inch rocky head. Earthy/fruity aroma. The flavor is almost reminiscent of dirty berries. Quite smooth and pleasant. Surprised to see this listed as a smoke beer.

12 oz bottle from Trooper11. Dark amber with a slight white head. Nose is mildly earthy, with a mere wisp of smoke. Caramelly malts in the flavor, a bit of the aforementioned earthiness, and another tiny wisp of smoke. What is this, training wheels for a rauchbier? Anyway, pretty drinkable, but boring beer.

Bottled. Amberish brown colour, with minor beige head. Aroma is leather, sweet caramellish malts and toffe. Even shows slight alcoholic hints. Flavour is roasted malts, hops, caramel and toffee. Quite dry in the aftertaste. Where’s the smoke?

dark sexy malty, aroma is almost of a lager, no smoked flavor maybe some roasted nutty flavor if anything, kinda like a bock. i like it.

Bottled. Dark nutty brown, small off-white head. Toffeish grassy aroma. Toffeish, grassy flavor. Sweetish grassy aftertaste. No smoke found here.

Cloudy brown, very small foamy head that quickly disappeared. Aroma is roasted chocolate, hints of nut. Like those Chewy chocolate caramel covered Riesens candies. Medium bodies. The initial taste is wonderful chocolate but the fizzy watery burning follow through ruins the whole thing. Great flavor, disqusting palate. Guess I will be giving away the rest of these. Nothing really smoky about this one. I can’t even taste the peat-smokes malt.

Dark orange-brown with no head. Very strong sweet scent, honey, malt, soy sauce, hops, spices. Taste is similar, wide range of sweet, salty, and sour with lingering slight bitterness. Very interesting taste, though not very strong. Smoky. Sparkly-feeling but not overly carbonated.

UPDATED: SEP 11, 2007 Well, It’s nice and dark, and it foams rather impressively, but this apparently seasonal product is like a watered down smoked porter. It is, however, higher in alcohol than I had guessed, and while that is certainly a positive, I will never willfully consume this product again. Par for MH beers.