Odd Notion - American Sour Ale (Winter 09)
Magic Hat Brewing Company in Rochester, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Winter Out of Production|
Score
5.94
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This American Sour Ale is brewed with 4 different malts and oak chips. The chips give it hints of vanilla, the malts a puckering sourness. This is the temptation of tart. Drink it down and let it steal your facebuds.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
11/27/2009 I picked up the 12 pack so I could try this one. Pours a slightly hazy reddish brown with a thinnish beige head that dissipates quickly. Smells of prunes, cherries, brown sugar, sweet malts. Really doesn’t smell like anything sour or wild. The taste is sweet with dark fruits, cherries and apricots come to mind. There is a tart character to the beer, but its more like tart fruits than anything wild. This almost reminds me of #9 but darker and more apricots. Tart citrus flavors start to come out as it warms. Medium body and carbonation. Yup another mediocre brew from Magic Hat. Drinkable, but really nothing special.
Tried
on 27 May 2011
at 18:53
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
A mahoganny amber ale with a super thick big bubbled moka head. Light aroma of lactic acid and light berries, some fishy off notes. In mouth, a rather weak example of a sour ale, woody (like fibrous wood chips), light nutty malts, puckering sourness, but no body. A miss, in this case.
Tried
on 02 Oct 2010
at 15:37
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Rated from bottle. Light metallic roast flavour. Can’t check looks. Dry roasted, light sour flavour, berry finish. Light body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2010
at 14:23
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours deep amber into a tumbler. Off-white head with medium retention recedes to skim surface. Sour chocolate and oak aromas. Tart with upfront chocolate covered sour cherry turning to a lasting sour oak and vanilla puckery finish.
Tried
on 18 Dec 2009
at 18:34
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pretty useless crap, not sure why make an American sour with so little sourness. Its basically your garbage-y like sour with maybe a bit of tartness at the end but I got to look for it. I could easily see this passing off as a bad amber in some 2nd rate brewpubs across the country.
12oz bottle in a New Belgium globe glass.
12oz bottle in a New Belgium globe glass.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Nov 2009
at 20:10
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft. Not initally knowing this was a Magic Hat beer and not really being a huge fan of "sour ales", I have to say I was somewhat surprised with the results. Perhaps I enjoyed it more because I wasn’t rating it against the brand? Who knows. Aroma is touches of sour and notes of oak vanilla. Flavor is mostly tart, just tart with notes of sweetness and berry sticking there.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Nov 2009
at 21:04
4.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4
Pour is a brown with a average white head. Aroma is a bit earthy with some sourness. Flavor is a bit of chocolate with some cherry and a minor sour aftertaste. Nothing really sour and it seems the brewer was trying to gimick this up. Can you make an artifical sourness? If so that’s what i think happened and it did not work.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Nov 2009
at 17:58
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
Smells like slag. Yeasty swirling pour on a light rootbeer background. Weird dark sour or tart beer experience. Goes over well. Not bad, very unique. Almost a sour ale, really just lightly sour. Finish goes woody wet and wet leather. I think I like
Tried
on 15 Nov 2009
at 08:14
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours with a hazy brown body with red highlights and large, rocky tan head. Aroma of apple, cranberry, dark fruits, a bit of soggy grain, wheat?, straw and stewed apples. Taste is lightly tart with some vanilla, apple, dark fruits, and straw. A little bit acidic. Some more cranberry. Fizzy and dry mouthfeel. Not super sour...Seems only like acid malt, no sour yeast. If it is going to be an "American Sour Ale" lets make it sour, guys, I know you guys actually use sour bugs, lets make a sour beer, please!
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2009
at 14:52
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12 ounce bottle from the winter sampler. Pours a clear brown color with a medium head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma of grainy malts, tea and a faint tartness. Taste is tart berries, tea, grain. Very faintly tart. Thin-medium bodied. This is a fairly bland and boring beer and a very poor attempt at a fruit beer. If they were going for just a notion, they got it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2009
at 22:50