High Wire
Magic Rock Brewing in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England 🏴
Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular|
Score
7.06
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High Wire is our tribute to the Pale Ales of the West Coast of America, beers unapologetically hop forward in character. Let your taste buds walk this test of balance. Mango, lychee and lip-smacking grapefruit flavours harmonise against a smoothly composed malt base, which develops into a crisply bitter finish. Are you ready for our tightrope of taste. .?
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4.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 3
Overall 18
Significant American hops up front featuring grapefruit, lemon, mango and grassiness. Sub-flavours of Ear Grey tea with floral softness set off a wonderful taste profile in a low-ABV pale ale. well done!
Tried
from Can
on 23 Sep 2025
at 20:02
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Old rating from Dec 2014 - From the cask, pours amber with a white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of tropical fruits, grapefruit, mango, passion fruit, citrus, pine & hops. Moderate to medium body. Medium bitter finish
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Apr 2025
at 16:23
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Aroma of tropical fruits, biscuity malt, pine, hops. Flavour is light to moderate sweet with a moderate to medium bitter finish. Rather too malt-oriented for me to be a true winner, but it’s definitely smooth and refreshing and it goes down well.
Tried
on 13 Feb 2025
at 05:04
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Canned 330ml. -from Spazio Conad Portogruaro. Unclear golden coloured, medium sized white head, light peachy citrusy nose. Citrusy, peachy, light caramel and some floral notes in the finish.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Feb 2024
at 11:33
6.5/10
Tried
on 11 Jun 2023
at 18:06
31/03/2022. SHAKESPEARE TAVERN, 68 Prince Street, BRISTOL, Bristol, England (GREENE KING)
Tried
on 26 Dec 2022
at 08:01
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught at Lambiczoon: pours gold with white head. Aroma is light citrus and flowers. Taste much the same with a lame pale maltiness. Passable but very much of a simpler time.
Tried
on 09 Sep 2022
at 07:11
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from Beyond Beer, drunk in the basement while jamming on the Hiwatt clone to songs from my band 20 years ago. Orange amber hazy with a medium head. Smells orange-citrusy dank with some mild pine notes. Flavor is more dank and piney, but with smooth and not overwhelming bitterness with a great caramel backbone. What perfect balance! Excellent one, and at just five and a half percent.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Mar 2022
at 21:30
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
[33cl can from Bargain Booze, Milton, Staffs.] A hazy straw coloured pour with a tight white head; piney aroma; bitter pine needle taste to start then a sweeter grainy body with a little citrus; then a bitter grapefruit finish. Crisp and refreshing.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Dec 2021
at 18:36
6.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Ietwat te bitter voor mij, prima geur.
@thuis
@thuis
Tried
from Can
on 19 Nov 2021
at 20:00