Magic Hat Lucky Kat

Brewed by Magic Hat Brewing Company
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
South Burlington, Vermont USA

Pours a clear honey color with a frothy slightly off-white head. Aroma is of malt sweetness, a little honey, fruit - apricot or pear, and a slight mustiness. Fruit flavor up front, but the body is too thin, the middle is lacking because of lack of body. The finish, however, is excellent, just a hint of sweetness leads into a nice drying hop finish. Hop flavor lingers nicely on the tongue. Overall - a disappointment.

Location: 12 oz Bottle from Gilly’s, drank it 3/8/09.

Aroma: Hoppy and a little citrus
Appearance: Golden, orange color, thin cloudiness
Flavor: Decent beer, drinks like an American Pale more then an IPA I think
Overall Impression: You know what? This was better then I expected. It’s a hoppy Pale, but it doesn’t offer too much else.

12oz bottle. Lightly hazy amber in color, verging on brown, with a lasting head. The aroma is earthy, toasty malt, some caramel, pear, and, spicy hops. The flavor is malty and earthy with toast, caramel, tangerine, and a firm bitterness. The profile has an english feel, with a fruity yeast character and toasty malt body, balanced by pretty bitter hopping, but low hop aroma. Rather good mouth-feel, with tight carbonation. One gripe is that the alcohol is slightly noticeable in both the aroma and flavor.

This is a decent beer, but I am having a hard time calling it an IPA.Aroma was very malty- burnt caramel mostly. Pour was a nice clear orange with a one finger off white head that laced the whole way down the glass. Taste was like a hoppy Vienna if that makes sense. Burnt caramel with a nice strong hoppiness that dries the mouth and cheeks. There is what I can only describe as a burnt caramel smoke in the aftertaste. Very tasty, though and nice aggressive carbonation.

I love IPA’s but this fell a little short of what I expected. It had a lighter flavor than HIPA and was a little weak. I tried it, thats all I can say.

This was sampled in Cass, WV while on a skiing trip. The IPA poured a cloudy orangish and lacked body. Good citrus flavors and balance with the malts. The IPA poured with a smallish head and no lacing. The finish had some bitterness.

Golden orange pour with a white head. Light aroma of malts a hops. A really light IPA without much strong hop flavor. Flavor of mostly light malts, some caramel, and some hops bitterness at the finish. Light to medium body.

Bottle. Grainy lemon cleaner nose, tart citrus with little (other) overt hoppiness but some nice misc fruitiness (I’d say apricot if not for #9). Clear orange body with a pillowy, rocky lacing off-white head. Dry, lightly bitter, medium body with a warm bread finish and sticky alcohol presence. Mustier, earthier hops in-mouth with definite crystal malt and a little cellary celery. So, a mix of some Kellerbier and English IPA / Best Bitter. Long, solid hoppy aftertaste seals the deal.