7/10
Tried
on 12 Oct 2015
at 19:40
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Pour is a thick, heavy looking murky orange with a very small head. Aroma is nice though. Lots of yeasty banana and clove esters with some other bubblegum sweetness. Flavor is a nice hefe honey malt with more of the banana and something almost like a berry flavor toward the end. The rub here is a bit of alcohol harshness after the swallow. It’s pretty decent but not your run of the mill hefe.
Tried
on 26 Aug 2015
at 18:08
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours a slightly hazy orange-gold color with a medium thick foamy white head that evaporates gradually. Small patches of lacing. Aroma of fruit, yeast and malt. Light-bodied with flavors of grassy hops, fruit and malt. The finish is mildly bitter with a short grassy hop aftertaste. Average overall.
Tried
on 09 Jun 2015
at 15:44
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Purchased at Bottles and Cans in Chicago, IL; enjoyed at home while watching game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Appearance is a very cloudy gold with a rich, pronounced white head. Aroma of clove and fruit, sweet, smells like pears. Taste is very similar to Magic Hat #9, a little too similar, it’s just OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2015
at 20:49
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Purchased at Bottles and Cans in Chicago, IL; enjoyed at home watching early season Sunday baseball on a cool afternoon at home. Appearance is a cloudy amber gold, consistency of fruit juice, with a moderate frothy white head that laces to the glass. Aroma is rich in piney hops with a light fruity profile. Taste is pretty good, very hearty/thick IPA, definitely some bitterness in here, citrus comes out more in the flavor, and I’m a fan of it. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Apr 2015
at 14:57
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Single bottle from Binny’s/ Bubblegum smell under the cap and into the glass. Slightly darker than most hefes, as if it was meant to be had in the fall and winter. Puffy hefe head. Some more bubblegum in the tongue, but behind it is a bit of wheat spice. Drinks pretty nice, although, yes, a bit hefty. Sweetness tends a bit on the saccharine side, but does not linger too long on the tongue.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Feb 2015
at 00:38
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 oz. can purchased at The Beer Shoppe or $3.95. A tad pricey but worth the sample for sure. Cloudy Amber color with fast diminishing head that leaves very little after it settles. Aroma is rather nice, heavy with resin, pine qualities with a spicy rye (or at least spicy) malt note.
Flavor starts with a moderate level of malt and citrus backed by a chewy yeast body. The chewy yeast gives way to a rather bold pine. The resin pine isn’t real big at first, it seems to stack up after you work your way though the glass. No date is displayed any place on the can, yet it’s clear to me it on the fresher side. If you find this on draft or fresh can don’t pass it up. Tasty
Flavor starts with a moderate level of malt and citrus backed by a chewy yeast body. The chewy yeast gives way to a rather bold pine. The resin pine isn’t real big at first, it seems to stack up after you work your way though the glass. No date is displayed any place on the can, yet it’s clear to me it on the fresher side. If you find this on draft or fresh can don’t pass it up. Tasty
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jan 2015
at 19:46
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Hazy Muddy Brown, A few Floaters, Huge Fluff Head, Decent Lacing. Sweet Malt, Floral Hops and Pine Aroma. Sweet Malt, Resin, Pine and Hop Bitter. More Sweet Than Bitter. Full Body, Hides High ABV Well. Easy To Drink, Enjoyed It. Recommended....
Tried
on 07 Dec 2014
at 22:05
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Wild Onion Brewing’s Pumpkin Ale (5.4%) is the last of the pumpkin beers I picked up in Chicago. It pours deep copper gold with a decent head. A slightly spicy cinnamon with that apple pie aroma I got from many mid-West pumpkin ales. Medium to light bodied with a scratchy carbonation. The taste gives me cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and a sweet fruitiness. I think the sweetness and spicing is a bit overdone and needs a gentler touch for my tastes.
Tried
on 31 Oct 2014
at 03:03
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5
Fucken can offered @ gmellison. Got this bad boy in a trade with Adumb. Thanks! Really fucken murky, dark orange appearance with a white head. Orange blossom, citrus, fruit cocktail, powdery / potpourri aroma. Flavor is ok. Pretty chalky / mineralic but once you get past that it has a decent citrus / floral thing going one. Mouth feel is again a bit powdery. Moderate to high bitterness. Not awful and actually better than I was expecting based on the appearance and aroma, but not something I’d buy again.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Mar 2014
at 16:46