Magic Rock Rapture

Brewed by Magic Rock
Style: Amber Ale
Huddersfield, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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330ml bottle. Pours a hazy reddy orange with a small head. Aroma is piney hops and orange jelly. Taste is bready malt to start. Strong grapefruit bitter finish. A little one sided.

RBESG August 2011, Southampton Arms. Dark copper with a small white head. Aroma of toffee and fruit, with a bit of dried fruit. Toffee malty flavour with grassy hops and a bitter finish.

Bottle at omhpers tasting 110930. Golden beer, offwhite head. Berry aroma, grassy and sweetish. Hoppy flavor, grassy and with metal notes, some berries.

33cl bottle thanks to Chris Mair! Pours light chestnut with an orange hue. There is a nice head but it mostly disappears in the first couple of minutes. The nose has some raisin malt but is mostly pine and grapefruit pith. The taste has more grapefruit and pith with not sweet malt to talk of. The palate has a medium body and texture with a very fresh and zingy finish. Overall, it’s a good beer for the hopheads, but it needs a little more malt sweetness for me, so it is very flavoursome but lacks balance.

On tap at HaandFestival 2012. An unclear, golden-orange beer topped by a minimal-sized beige head. Citrusy, piney nose with caramel in the back. Pleasant, but a tad too subtle I think. That goes for the flavor too, with its biscuity maltyness, citrus peel and pine cones, and a decent bitterness. It feels a bit dead on the palate, although it has a decent carbonation. Full body and bitter finish. A decent and easy drinkable beer, but it failed to impress me. 120505

It looks great - lovely chestnut colour and a nice, but quick dying head. Perhaps it was because I had it after the Cannonball and High Wire, but it found it a bit lightweight. There were some toffee notes in there and a bit of toffee/caramel taste,and it’s not a bad beer by any stretch of the imagination, it’s just that my personal taste runs to hoppy, often US beers.

Cask at Cask Pub and Kitchen, Pimlico, London. An amber/red coloured pour with a medium white head on top. Fruity, caramel aroma. Tastes of caramel, malty, fruity. Rather thin for my liking.

Sample @ omhper’s. Pours redish mahogany with a small bubbly off white head. Aroma is fruity malty caramel sweet. Flavor is bitter fruity peppery pungent a bit sweetness. Finishes longlived bitter.

Cask at King William IV. Pours brown with a tan head. Aroma of light marmite, spice, floral aspects, malt and pepper. Flavour is light to moderate sweet and bitter. Moderate pepper on the palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Sampled at omhpers testing. Pours light brown with a small brown head. Smells hoppy and tastes very hoppy with a similar finish.