Magic Hat Odd Notion - American Wheat IPA (Spring 10)

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

Serve in Shaker, Weizen

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Had this as "Magic Hat Encore American Wheat IPA" from the IPA on tour series. 12 fl oz / 355mL bottle into a pint glass. Served cold. Aroma: Strange. Citrusy, lemony hops, but there’s an odd creaminess to it. Not sure how to adequately describe it. Pleasant, though! Appearance: Hazy, practically opaque rust. Off-white head lasts for a bit. Taste: Strong hop bite! Just the subtlest wheat on the end. So lots of hop, not a lot of wheat. I can live with that! Palate: Medium bodied. Long, long finish. Quality stuff. Overall: Good stuff! It’s a shame Magic Hat doesn’t make it regularly, because it’s a fantastic brew.

may have been a bit past its prime been sitting a while still a decent bodied ipa nice flavor and character nothing out of the ordinary but a typical good american ipa enjoyable on a hot summer day. job well done as i don’t like many of magic hats beers

Not the worst ipa. Not a whole lot of smell, flavor has a ncie bitterness and some citrus.

Las notas aromaticas son complejas, diferentes y originales. Se percibe en primera instancia notas frutales y citricas intensas, piña y cascara de nananja, así como ligeras notas a lupulo y granos, principalmente cebada. En cuanto a su apariencia, es más una cerveza de trigo que una IPA. Color dorado, opaca y muy turbia. Carbonatacion ligera, corona de espuma media de alta retención. En boca es realmente una combinación de sabores de dos estilos, sabores citricos intensos con un final amargo pero equilibrado, con notas a grano y trigo. Al paladar el amargor invade la boca, sin embargo las notas citricas devuelven un equilibrio especial que termina con sabor a trigo. En resumen una cerveza interesante y original que comienza con todas las caracteristicas de una IPA pero termina con las notas de una muy buena cerveza de trigo!

Tastes like what it says. Combo of wheat and IPA. Nothing crazy, but a descent beer for watching football and eating spicy snacks. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Earlier Rating: 1/1/2012 Total Score: 2.9
Tastes like what it says. Combo of wheat and IPA. Nothing crazy, but a descent beer for watching football and eating spicy snacks. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

A hazy yellowish orange color with fluffy white head. Smells like what it is- a hopped up wheat beer. Taste is a bit tart and muddled, not bad, just not good.

12oz bottle from ABC on Betton - labeled as Encore. Gold pour with a medium off-white head and sudsy retention. Aroma of light grain, pine and floral hops. Tastes are wheat, grain, honey. Eh, not offensive, but not so great.

12oz bottle (Encore). Pours a hazy golden color with about a half inch of white head. Aroma is wheaty and sweet, with some citrus hop notes. Taste is Sweet up front, citrusy, fruity, with mild bitterness.

Bottle at Ales and Lagers, Kuala Lumpur. Poured a cloudy medium amber with a thin white broken head. The aroma is hoppy leading to a medium bitter, hoppy, spicy flavour which is smooth on the palate and super refreshing.

Appearance: very hazy orange color with some particles floating around. There’s a soap-like head that’s about two fingers or so in height. The lacing is decent Smell: Soapy hops -- really not much malt here, but it smells average. Taste/feel: On the front there’s some massive citrus -- grapefruit sorts. Very bitter. Almost a medicinal flavor in there. The aftertaste is spicy with not much malt to balance it out. Decent beer, but it’s just not balanced enough for me.