Magic IPA / White Magic
Durham Brewery in Bowburn, Durham, England 🏴
IPA - Wheat / White Regular|
Score
6.59
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Sigmund (14587) reviewed Magic IPA / White Magic from Durham Brewery 5 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6.5
500 ml bottle conditioned, as Durham Magic IPA, only the side information reveals that this is White Magic. ABV is 7.0%. Bought at The Cheese & Wine Shop in Darlington. Pale golden colour, huge and lasting white head. Moderate aroma, notes of herbal hops and mild spices. High level of carbonation. Distinct spicy and hoppy flavour, some sweetish fruity notes too, and a solid and rather sharp hoppy bitterness in the finish. The alcohol is not particularly well hidden. Would benefit from less carbonation and a more pronounced malty backbone to balance the bitterness, but is well worth sampling as it is. --- Beer merged from original tick of White Magic on 10 Jan 2021 at 17:25 - Score: Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6.5. Original review text: 500 ml bottle conditioned, as Durham Magic IPA, only the side information reveals that this is White Magic. ABV is 7.0%. Bought at The Cheese & Wine Shop in Darlington. Pale golden colour, huge and lasting white head. Moderate aroma, notes of herbal hops and mild spices. High level of carbonation. Distinct spicy and hoppy flavour, some sweetish fruity notes too, and a solid and rather sharp hoppy bitterness in the finish. The alcohol is not particularly well hidden. Would benefit from less carbonation and a more pronounced malty backbone to balance the bitterness, but is well worth sampling as it is.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Magic IPA / White Magic from Durham Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 500ml. @ [ Tasting by Fin & Loz ].Clear medium yellow colour with a large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, sweet malt, moderate to light heavy hoppy, light to moderate citrus, orange - citrus. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20111023] --- Beer merged from original tick of White Magic on 30 Jan 2011 at 23:24 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7. Original review text: Bottle 500ml.Clear medium yellow color with a large to huge, frothy to creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, white to off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted, moderate hoppy, grapefruit, grass - silage, alcohol, light alcohol - aceton. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, sharp, lemon - grapefruit, perfume. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110102]
Scopey (25115) reviewed Magic IPA / White Magic from Durham Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at Craft Beer Co tasting, thanks to Leighton. It pours gold, with a thick, bubbly white head. The nose is straw, hay, pear, red apple, farmyard, dough and pepper. The taste is tangerine, orange pith, hay, straw, white bread, ginger, pepper. and grass, with a warm, dry-citric finish. Medium body, fine carbonation and foamy mouth-feel. Not bad at all.
Leighton (34941) reviewed Magic IPA / White Magic from Durham Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at 1st CBC Sunday Tasting. Pours clear gold with a huge, white head. Fresh hop aroma, bit of light grass, flowers. Medium sweet flavor, very smooth, grass, slight citrus rind, spicy bitterness. Medium bodied with massaging carbonation. Slight warm finish, floral hops, bit of dough, light yeast. Very smooth drinking IPA with a soft hop edge.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottled:
Pours a hazy deep golden colour with a large, creamy head. Sweet honey aroma with notes of dusty hops. Flavour has notes of honey but is mostly a fight between hop bitterness and boozy bitterness; no one wins.
Fin (18365) reviewed Magic IPA / White Magic from Durham Brewery 14 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Handpump at The Shoulder of Mutton, Wantage, Oxon 15.04.11 with Peter (ex Pitstop brewer) and owner of this new pub Pours mid gold good clarity. There is an impressive thrusty bitterness to this, lovely & hoppy, quite wonderful. A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov15 3.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Beer Ritz, Leeds. Shared with Slothez. Golden pour with a mid sized white head. Aroma had traces of citrus, grassy hop and booze. Similar qualities permeated through the flavour, but the hops weren’t quite assertive enough. Ok if largely forgettable stuff. If this beer was a magician it’d be more of a Paul Daniels than a Houdini.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Mr Lawrence Wine Merchants, Brockley- with ’Magic IPA’ on the label. Dusty golden pour with a white head. Hops, herbs and caramel in the nose. Vanilla and light spice flavours. Strong hop presence in the finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(Bottle 50 cl) Hazy, golden beer with a small, white head. Slightly tart, Brett-like nose. Malty, lightly sweet with a sharp, bitter finish. a bit too one-dimensional bitterness. 250705
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Magic IPA / White Magic from Durham Brewery 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
An orange beer with a thin white head. The aroma sweet yeasty combined oranges and peach. The flavor is sweet spicy with coriander standing out, but it also had notes of celery, leading to a dry end.