Magic Hat Brewing Company #9

#9

 

Magic Hat Brewing Company in Rochester, New York, United States 🇺🇸

  Pale Ale - American Style / APA Regular
Score
5.93
ABV: 5.1% IBU: 20 Ticks: 161
A sorta dry, crisp, refreshing, not quite pale ale whose mysterious and unusual palate will swirl across your tongue with subtle notes of fruit and a floral hop bitterness.
 

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5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

A bit too much of the fruit aroma for me that throws the whole thing off. I never really got this beer.

Tried on 20 May 2025 at 00:51


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

Bottle. This was a good beer. Smelled of bread like malt and fruit. Taste was of apricots, with a good malt-hop balance. A good quenching beer.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Mar 2025 at 05:15


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tap at the brewery.
Clear copper pour, with a small white head. Aroma of fruit........hard to pin it down. Pineapple, berries, pear, cherry. Quite interesting, this like a fruit punch. Very crisp, and a clean finish with a touch of tartness. Leaves you wanting more on a warm summertime patio. I was impressed, i didn’t expect much.

Tried from Draft on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:16


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

Bottle at 1048 Jazz and Blues, Montgomery. Bit sweetish with an aroma of peach, apricot, and notes of berries. Bit softly hopped, mild bitter. Body is medium. Not bad but a bit too much like a Fruit Beer, not enough Pale Ale.

Tried from Bottle on 07 Feb 2025 at 12:17


6.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

355ml bottle, pours amber with a white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of apricot, berries, cereal, grain , caramel & malt. Medium body. Smooth light bitter finish

Tried from Bottle on 30 Jan 2025 at 20:49


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

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Unusual brew using English top-fermenting yeast and also wheat. And then it’s a fruit beer - I would’ve guessed raspberries, but it turns out to be....apricot!!! Fully golden, unfiltered with a pretty decent head. Pronounced, dry fruit flavours and almost no sweetness. Well, not a complete pleasure. 2.5

Tried from Bottle on 11 Jan 2025 at 16:26


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Sweet bitter and some tart, hints of apricot and peach in funky way. Old paper ratings before Ratebeer, so why not rate them in hindsight.

Tried on 29 Dec 2024 at 11:13


7

Tried on 13 Dec 2024 at 16:48


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Early rating from Beer Buddy app

Tried on 17 Apr 2022 at 00:56


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Tap at Devil Craft. Golden colour, small bubbly off white head. Aroma not much at all. Touch of grain, something slightly vegetable like. Taste nice, something herbal, initial hop bitterness, but fades into herbal spritziness. Some funkiness, and a bit of orange sherbert.

Tried from Draft on 09 Sep 2019 at 15:53