8

So refreshing

6.1

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle pour into shaker pint glass. Appearance is dark amber with lots of large, light floaties (when backlit, light amber with lots of large, dark floaties), tons of sparkle, finger-width beige foamy head with fair retention and trace lacing. Aroma is rye, caramel malts. Taste is strong rye and caramel malts, spices, milder earthy hops. Mouthfeel is light side of light-to-medium bodied with smooth, thin texture, soft carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, I can't find a born on date but I know this sucker is OLD. However, it doesn't seem to deviate much from others' reviews so I suspect the hops contribution was not that huge to begin with. Not bad, but more like a rye APA. Appearance is horrendous.

5.8

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

12oz bottle picked up at the state store
Pours clear dark amber with a small beige head, some lacing. Malty, caramel, fruity and bready, rye spices
Decent, too malty for me

6.1

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

Bottle from the mix a six at Hannaford. Deep amber light copper in color with a good sized long lasting frothy off white head. Malty bready caramel on the nose with bits of earth and spice. Fruity earthy bready caramel malty flavor. Not much spice or hops in the flavor. Middle of the road at best like just about everything else from this brewery.

4.1

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

Pours a dark amber from the bottle. Aroma is a nice hoppy earthiness, but flavor falls short, as I feel a lot of Magic Hat’s beers do. They don’t quite gel, just disparate flavor elements that don’t make the whole greater than the sum of its parts.

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

bottle - Pours hazy dark copper with a small head. It smells hoppy with some mild citrus. The flavor is moderately to strongly bitter with rye spiciness. It’s medium bodied and fairly good.

6.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Tap. Pours clear light amber, medium off white head, good lacing. Aroma is light pine, gras, cardboard. Flavor is light sweet, medium bitter, sharp rye and grassy hay notes on top of pine. Medium body, a bit harsh

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

At work: Pours copper with off-white head. Aroma is rye malts, mellow hoppy mixture, butterscotch, and fruitiness. Taste is pretty light. A tad bit spicy. Not too much bitterness. Really, it is not bad, but not particularly exceptional. It is a little different from other beers, which is nice.

6.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours clear light copper with a slight beige head. Aroma is sort of spicy/herby. Med body or so. The rye is clearly present with spice, and there’s a sort of veg/herb along with it. It’s bitter in the finish, but I’m not getting much of the usual hop suspects. Herbal I guess.

4.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 4.5

Hazy amber coloured body with a brown glow and a thin, one centimetre tall tan head. Aroma of rye, light hops, alcohol, a touch of figs and pit fruits and bunches of earth. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong rye flavour with a lot of grain flavour, some light hops and a very watery flavour right afterwards - no depth at all on the flavour. Aftertaste has a hint of pit fruits, but not much at all noticeable aside from the earthy malty rye. Overall, a pretty poor offering, but that was expected from the brewery - however, this is slightly surprising that such a potent grain could make such a bland beer - there is simply no complexity at all here. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from New Beer Distributors in New York, New York on 13-July-2013 for US$2.00 sampled at home in Washington on 26-August-2013.