Magic Hat Roxy Rolles

Brewed by Magic Hat Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
South Burlington, Vermont USA

This amber ale doesn’t have the best aroma or flavor, but can be enjoyed if you like a slightly hopped ale. With an amber color and small head, it’s not the most impressive brew.

The aroma is hoppy with pine and citrus hops. The aroma also has caramel and lightly roasted malt. The appearance is amber brown with a large head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is thin. Overall pretty good.

Hoppy aroma, nice amber color. There is some nice flavor, but it is overwhelmed by what in my opinion is excessive hopping.

Pours from 12 oz bottle, nice deep amber body with a thinnish tan head. Aroma of fresh hops, strong metal, caramel malt and a soapy scent. medium-bodied; medium hoppy flavour, potent malt and an alcoholic twang that lasts for a while. Aftertaste shows some of the hops along with the bitterness and a touch of the metallic tastes, finished with malt goodness. Fairly average amber beer.

5/17/2008: Magic Hat Roxy Rolles is a solid amber ale in every regard. It has a deep burnt amber color with a slight haze and a mostly lasting, foamy beige head. An unexpected and really inviting hoppy aroma fills the nostrils with sweet citrus, resiny pine, and grassy/herbal/earthy hop goodness. There is also a good amount of underlying roasty and toffee maltiness. The flavor mimics with aroma with additional coffee-like qualities coming through balanced by a substantial hop flavor and a good, balanced level of bitterness. The body of this beer is medium to medium-full is really smooth with a good, slightly creamy texture. The head initial head leaves a fine, prolific amount of lacing on the glass. Overall this is a really tasty brew. It is not the typical unexciting and average amber ale.

3/4 pint bottle (Best when fresh: Feb 08) from 6-pack purchased at Bigg’s Hypermarket in Harrison, Ohio. Rating #284 for this beer...

Has a hoppy and slightly malty taste with a decent bitter finish. An ok amber ale. Not impressed here.

Bottle. Pours an amber orange with a small head. Quite hoppy with a touch of sugar in the aroma. The taste was hoppy and sweet as well with an underlying bitterness. The beer was a bit too thin.

From a 12 fl. oz bottle with an expiration date of April 2008. I just made it by two weeks. Pours a rich amber-red with a tan, puffy head. Malted aroma and a hint of some kind of pungent spice. Taste is a little malted, hoppy, bitter (as in sour) and dry. Carries a disagreeable aftertaste, which kind of brings down my appreciation of it.