Magic Hat Brewing Company Hocus Pocus

Hocus Pocus

 

Magic Hat Brewing Company in Rochester, New York, United States 🇺🇸

  Wheat Ale Regular Out of Production
Score
5.60
ABV: 4.5% IBU: 13 Ticks: 25
Our take on the classic summer wheat beer...it’s a light, crisp ale for mowing lawns, hitting lazy fly balls and communing with nature. Glowing like brilliant rays of golden sun, its malty sweetness finishes tart and crisp. Hocus Pocus is best appreciated with a wedge of orange. Offered as a sacrifice to cloudless days.
 

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5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Bottle from a sampler. Pale straw color with a fizzy, fast dissolving 2-finger head. Wheat and slight grass aroma is very faint. Grassy, citrus taste. Fairly pleasant.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Jul 2008 at 23:52


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

12oz bottle-pours a white head and hazy gold color. Aroma is wheat, sweet grain, perfumy, some lemon. Taste is wheat, sweet grain, perfumy/metallic/some lemon-hops. Fizzy effervescence.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Jun 2008 at 23:16


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

2007 bottle...cloudy golden-thin head...smells lightly citrusy with some yeast, very simple to the nose...some malt smell as well, faint...simple, simple, and simple....some citrus peel and mild clove, a little bitter bite to the finish....well crafted, but thin in all ways

Tried from Bottle on 31 Oct 2007 at 15:01


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

This beer is a clear golden color with a medium white head that dissipates steadily. Spotty lacing. Light aroma of wheat and citrus. Light-bodied and citrusy with some mild wheat and malt flavors. Clean, fruity finish with a touch of hops on the end. Clearly meant to be a lawnmower beer, but that is no excuse not to throw in a little more flavor.

Tried on 29 Jun 2007 at 15:17


4.1
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5

Wheat magic, from Vermont. 12 oz twist off brown bottle, nice label. Ubiquitous pale yellow american beer color, has some streams of carbonation readily viewable. Aroma of mild floral hops. The initial taste is that of an ale, pale ale. I’ve tasted APA that is similar to this flavor. Mild hoppy citrus rind flavors that attack like any other pale ale. I’m not sure how they come up with this as being an American Wheat, I’m puzzled. Not too wheaty and there is not sludge on the bottom of the bottle. Something like Arcadia Whtsun or Southern Tier Hop Sun. These do not do much for the American Wheat style. If you are a hop lover I guess the hops in these brews make them more palatable for you. Except for the medium carbonation, I don’t find much anything like wheat in this brew. Finish is back of throat mild hops that are just ever so slightly bitter. A little disappointing for a wheat, though interesting and hoppy tasty. Boulder sweaty betty and Shiner Hefe are both much better than this as a wheat beer. I’ve tasted pale lagers that are more wheatlike than this.

Tried from Bottle on 06 May 2007 at 12:24


3.5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3

This beer I do not like. It says that it is nice and crisp, but I felt it to be dry and almost cardboard tasting. Magic Hat seems to be trying to hard to put out original beers. THis one, though it tastes different does not taste at all good in my humble opinion. Would only drink it again if I had no recourse.

Tried on 31 Oct 2006 at 13:46


5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Clear light amber body with a huge frothy off-white head. Aroma of light grass and some spice. Sweet light grassy flavor, some light spice. Somewhat watery.

Tried on 02 Sep 2006 at 21:33


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Poured a brown amber with white head. Smell was a grassy grainy aroma. The taste was a sour wheat and spice.

Tried on 14 Aug 2006 at 20:48


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft. Pretty decent beer. Aroma is sweet, and flavor is a little fruity. The only downside was that it felt a little watery.

Tried from Draft on 29 Jul 2006 at 22:12


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Brown bottle, 3/4 of a pint; eye: straw, clear, a bit of effervescence, white head that disappears rapidly, a bit of lacing; nose: apple, citrusy, banana but all of them on the weaker side; mouth: tart, followed by a bit of bitterness, finale on the watery, thin side, with a hint of caramel appearing and the tart aspect lingering on and dominating, body thin to medium, good carbonation; overall: ordinary FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 3/4 d’une pinte; oeil : paille, claire, un peu d’effervescence, mousse blanche qui disparaît rapidement, petite dentelle; nez : pomme, agrumes, banane mais plus dans le faible que dans le fort; bouche : aigrelette, suivi d’un peu d’amertume, finale plutôt aqueuse avec une petite apparation de caramel et le côté aigrelet qui demeure et domine complètement, corps mince à moyen, bonne carbonatatio; en résumé : ordinaire

Tried from Bottle on 20 May 2006 at 12:15