Humble Patience
Magic Hat Brewing Company in Rochester, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Amber / Red Ale - Irish Regular|
Score
6.66
|
|
Slowly, so slowly we watch the art of the pour.
Born of the gas whose molecules dance.
Born of the flow of a dense liquid trance
Feeding the head, feeding the heart
Humble Patience is the place we start
How long is the ride? How traveled the road?
What do we bring to lighten the load?
Humble Patience is the thing
The ripe revelation that waiting will bring,
Humble Patience...
How long does it take for soon to be now?
OUR IRISH-STYLE ALE POURS SLOWLY, ITS DARK GARNET-RED COLOR CASCADING INTO A RICH, THICK, CREAMY HEAD THAT WILL MAKE YOU WEEP WITH JOY.
Sign up to add a tick or review
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours clear mahogany into a Sam glass. Off-white micro head slowly pancakes as it recedes leaving trailing sheets. Toffee, molasses and roasted nut aromas. Sweet caramel upfront turning dry in the abrupt toasted grain finish.
Drake (22934) reviewed Humble Patience from Magic Hat Brewing Company 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12 ounce bottle from the fall mix pack. Pours a clear dark red with a large frothy tan head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of earthy notes, nuts, chocolate and tinny hops. The taste is earthy notes, caramel and a leafy hop finish. Medium bodied. Decent beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Very nice very dark reddish pour. Nose and taste is a pleasant roasted malt, bitter hops. Rated 6/22/02 Originally 4.1
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Humble Patience from Magic Hat Brewing Company 19 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
2005? bottle, possibly late 2004, as it’s been discontinued, but anyways, drank it on 3/4/06 compliments of OldGrowth.
Still pours with plenty of carbonation. A tall beige head slowly recedes to a ring atop a deep garnet-to-auburn colored body with some darker mahogany tones in it as well. Fair amount of carbonation in large, forced bubbles. Filtered and crystal clear. The nose, displaying all of the crystal malt, is quite papery/crayon-like, with just the faintest touch of vanilla and some very light clove-like phenols. Heavy mineral water comes to mind as well, compliments of this lovely yeast. Nutty, dry and quite passing and forgettable goes the aroma.
The flavor is a mix of mineral water, light notes of watered down coffee mixed with skim milk and some soily, plant-like hoppiness. A rather vapid, unsettling flavor that you get from drinking an Irish-style ale on nitro. Impressive that they were able to re-create that.....
Extra lean body shows little malt sweetness for comfort, while the carbonation does settle down and allows some moderate toasted notes to work with light honey-buttercream and fruits, but it’s all so fleeting. No alcohol is apparent. In a word, dull.
And no, I don’t think it is unfair to expect better from this beer, even if it is a year or more old. I’ve had plenty of low gravity beers that have held up wonderfully, simply because they were not pasteurized and had been bottle conditioned. No excuse.
Lubiere (24459) reviewed Humble Patience from Magic Hat Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Dark reddish brown ale with a smooth creamy pale moka head, verry nice. Sweet vanilla and Coffee crisp in aroma, with pellets of malt. In mouth, a nice roasted chestnut comes out with very discreet hops. Verry woody and nutty in character, a good Irish Red! Medium bodied. Too bad its retired!
jhaase (14816) reviewed Humble Patience from Magic Hat Brewing Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle A bit tollhouse cookie dough aroma. Red brown, low brown creamy head. A tiny bit of roast and chocolate, but quite diluted.Watery body. Cookie aftertaste.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle: Poured a medium black color ale with a medium head that disappeared way too fast. Aroma is comprised of roasted malt (probably some oatmeal). Taste is also dominated by roasted malt, so much that I almost though I was drinking a light stout, and the end was also bitter. Overall, this is an average beer that seems to sit between two style (Irish ale and dry stout).
omhper (44752) reviewed Humble Patience from Magic Hat Brewing Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. Reddish black, average head. Roasty, peaty aroma. Salty and woody with some chocolate and verlvetty, yet clean mouthfeel. Dry, woody finish with medium bitterness. Well balanced.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Small frothy head that quickly fades on this red colored beer. Pleasantly dry & bitter, with just enough sweetness. Long finish is o.k. too. Not a very daring beer, but a well done, drinkable brew.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Humble Patience from Magic Hat Brewing Company 22 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
I suppose the 'red' colour they describe should be real, but my beer is definately dark brown in colour. No red, not even in highlights. A dense light brown head tops the beer as well. A very malty, chocolaty smell comes up as well. The first sip of the beer has some flavour, but after the first sip, there is no taste nor aftertaste to this beer. This is what the case was for all 3 of my previous Magic Hat beers, and I will suppose all their beers are like this. Too bad I have one more left. After that one, I will never buy Magic Hat again...seriously, save your money for something worthy for the money, such as Allagash, Victory or DogFishHead.