Magic Hat Jinx

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

Good smoked porter, but not quite on the level as some of the great ones (Alaskan Smoked Porter, for example). Brownish amber color with a small off-white head. Aroma is malty and a little smoky. Nice roasted malt on the flavor, but could use more smokiness. Taste is mildly sweet. Mouthfeel is medium, maybe a tiny bit thin.

amberish color, tan foam. nose is odd smoke and sweet malts. flavor is some hops sweet dried fruits and smoke. intresting but odd

Pours a really nice deep amber color with a thin white head. It was a good thing Ididn’t know this was a smoked when I tried it. They are probably one of my least favorite styles of beer. This one however didn’t smell or taste smoked so much as it tasted like caramelized sugar that is just at the perfect tipping point between being tasty and being burned. The flavor is very malty and sweet with a that just about burned backend. Overall pretty impressive for a smoked beer however.

Not very complex, slightly flat/mellow on the finish but still a nice beer.

You can read others break down of the beer, but heres what you need to know. This is not in the top 10 of Magic hat’s offerings, and I am a connoisseur of the VT brewery.

Nice fall ale. Pours deep amber color with nice head. Slightly smokey aroma. Malty, nutty flaovr with little smokey yeasty finish.

Bottle. Pours a deep redish amber with about an inch of off-white head. Aroma is smoky, malty and sweet. Taste is a smoky with a slight cherry taste.

bottle. pours a golden ambet with a thin tan head. has a bit of a smoky, malty aroma. has a smoky, woody flavor. kind of an odd, medicine like aftertaste. not what i expected.