Taken For Granite
Magic Hat Brewing Company in Rochester, New York, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.61
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Sampled on draft this beer poured a hazy golden amber color with a medium sized foamy orange-white head that left good lacing. The aroma was tangy and fruity with pepper and grapefruit. The flavor was bitter with fruity & piney hops, perfume, tobacco and astringency. Long finish. Medium body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
12 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 12/19/2017. Pours fairly hazy/cloudy medium orange/amber color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and rocky off white head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Thick soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of grapefruit, orange, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, melon, cherry, berry, citrus peel/rind, pepper, pine, caramel, toasted biscuit, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/earthy hops and moderate dark/bready malt notes; with solid strength. Taste of big grapefruit, orange, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, melon, cherry, berry, citrus peel/rind, pepper, pine, caramel, toasted biscuit, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel, herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of grapefruit, orange, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, melon, cherry, berry, citrus peel/rind, pepper, pine, caramel, toasted biscuit, and herbal/floral/grassy hop earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/earthy hops and moderate dark/bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance, and zero lingering hop astringency after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy/sticky, and lightly resinous/rindy balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 6.6%. Overall this is a very nice IPA. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/earthy hops and moderate dark/bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink; with the mellowly bitter/drying finish, not aggressive. Old school feeling IPA. Nugget, Amarillo, Simcoe, and Cascade. Well balanced juicy, dank, and earthy/spicy hop complexity; nice sized dark/bready malt backbone, but not overly sweet/heavy feeling. A very enjoyable offering, and well made style example.