Magic Hat Roxy Rolles

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

From 2006 Feast of Fools Variety Case. Deep ruby coppery pour with 2-finger off-white head. Aroma of nice fruity citrusy hops, including tangerine, honeydew, grapefruit, and berry. Tastes hoppy, peppery, and fruity. Piney mid-palate, with good balance and above average complexity. I’m glad there are 6 of these in this case! Mix one Troeg’s Nugget Nectar, one Troeg’s Hopback Amber, and a Dreadnaught, and you’ll have this beer.

Cask. Hazed dark amber ale with a big bubbled off white head. Aroma of caramle, herbal hops, illicit material, light nutty notes. In mouth, a classy hoppy ale with orange, and treacle, herbal, pleasing. Medium bodied. The Real Beer Expo - Rochester, NY, Oct. 21, 2006.

12 oz bottle (City Market, Oct 2006) consumed at cellar temp from a Chouffe tulip. Lovely speckly-puffy off-white head leaves quite thick and lasting lacing atop the deep amber-copper clear body....seriously powerful orange-apricot aroma, sweet and rather acidic, with late touches of white pepper and pine resin adding some pungency and complexity....on the tongue very similar characteristics are at play though in weaker form, some nice fruitiness but thick almost to syrupyness at the front, drying out to a hoppier, peppery, somewhat woody finish....strong carbonation, tingly mouthfeel at the end.

Bottle: Amber hued with a foamy fading head and spotty lace. The aroma has notes of caramel and bready malts, herbal grassy hops, hint of pepper and clove, apple and tangerine esters. The taste is mild bitterness in concert with acidic fruit over a layer of sweet malt. Finished with a hint of spice. The whole flavor profile is muted (aka dumb down) and got old in a hurry. Okay I guess but a weak attempt for a winter seasonal.

On-tap at Alternative Brews. {iney Hoppy and grapefruity, a bit of spice in finish. Brownish colour with minimal white head. Can pass an an IPA. Balance with malts and even a bit of fruitiness in finish.An average for the style, I liked it but can’t report any standout features.

Bottle (12oz). Poured bright, deep, clear ruby with an average tan frothy head. Aroma - an AMBER? This is hoppier than pretty much every Canadian beer I’ve ever had (sigh) - anyway, tight, sharp and sweet citrus hop smell, with pine and mild solids, really sweet and fruity (I see the peach here, adrian). Taste is mostly bitter resin hops, citrus zest, a hint of pine bough - simple, not as sweet as the aroma. Average body, very astringent and lively, fairly long pine/resin linger, light back-of-tongue bitter aftertaste; nice - not an amber, but pretty nice.

Bottle. Pours a copper body with a big sweet crystal malt sweetness. Light spicy floral hop character. Citrus and other fruity esters. Decent.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a medium sized head of foamy finely sized tan colored bubbles that were mostly lasting and left behind a hazy typically carbonated red brown colored body and a thick foamy lacing. The nice aroma was hoppy and caramel malt. The crisp mouth feel was tingly at the start with a mellow finish. The flavor contained notes of mild spice caramel mildly vinous Irish red malt and mild brown malt. Delicious and one I would certainly buy again. Very nicely done. More please!