jcr (3164) reviewed #9 from Magic Hat Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 11
Nice-looking pour — light copper with bubbly head. Aroma of apricot and lightly toasted, flowery malts. Light berry and apricot flavor that competes with the malts. Short fruity finish. Light to medium body with soft carbonation.
Lubiere (24605) reviewed #9 from Magic Hat Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Hazy golden ale with a thick white head. Sourish apricot and lemon with wheat in aroma. Good malty base with some apricot and a good dose of sharp hops, crisp in mouth, a bit mineral. Medium bodied.
Lubiere (24605) reviewed Humble Patience from Magic Hat Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Dark reddish brown ale with a smooth creamy pale moka head, verry nice. Sweet vanilla and Coffee crisp in aroma, with pellets of malt. In mouth, a nice roasted chestnut comes out with very discreet hops. Verry woody and nutty in character, a good Irish Red! Medium bodied. Too bad its retired!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sampled at the Ohio Labor Day gathering, provided by me via trade with OldGrowth. Bottled 1 November 2004, Batch 3, Bottle #634. Dark red-brown body, thin off-white head. Big bourbon nose with sweet candyish malts, caramely, and fruity. Strong bourbon naturally made the first impression on my palate, the body also being leathery with musty dark fruits and caramel. Surprisingly subdued alcohol. A very good, complex barleywine aided rather than hindered by bourbon cask aging, as the big malts balanced out the bourbon heat. Worth a purchase for those who like their barleywines on the sweet side.
Lubiere (24605) reviewed Blind Faith from Magic Hat Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Hazy dark amber ale with thin white head. Faded hops and caramel malts in aroma, with light but pleasant grapefruits. In mouth, hops are more pleasant yet restrained, with nice grapefruits notes, but lighter bodied. Still, very quaffable. Bottle is about 1 yr old.
Lubiere (24605) reviewed Jinx from Magic Hat Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Lightly hazed otherwise clear brown ale with a nice moka head. Sweet malt smeel with notes of apples, and light peat. Some wet dog too. In mouth, the smokeyness comes out, like a fine scotttish malt whiskey, the ,alt is too overly sweet, and a nice little hops in finale. Lighter bodied but very good. Bought at CJs in Potsdam NY, fall 2004.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
On draught at Sunset Grille 9/10/2005. Had to opt out of the 22ozer and just get the pint of this and I’m glad I did. Appears unfiltered, murky, brown-bread colored with light chestnut tinges, some slight tan-beige colors on the edges. Head is large and bubbly, slighlty fizzy and collapses very quickly to a one-finger amount of bubbly foam, but is retained there. Off-white to very light beige colored. Slight, spotty lacing. Aroma of bananas, light bubble gum, almost a dry spiciness from cinnamon or nutmeg. A bit of simple sugary malt, pumpernickel or rye breadiness and a hint of dry cherries. Flavor is full-on bananas with a dose of bubble gum on the finish. Dry, exceedingly so, with a pathetic excuse for a malt body. Grainy on one hand, but then loose, fizzy and watery on the other, it dosent exactly wow me with the mouthfeel. Dull bananas, dull spiciness lingering (clove, allspice), bit of appleskins and dark berries, but there just is no maltiness here. What a shame, could have been pretty good if so.
jcr (3164) reviewed Blind Faith from Magic Hat Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 11
"Created to aid in deciphering the puzzles along life’s road." The puzzle I never solved with Blind Faith was: Where are the hops? It poured promsing enough, a dark amber with beige head. The aroma was strongly of malts with just a hint of Cascade citrus. The flavor was of subdued hops — light grassiness and just a wee hint of grapefruit.. The malts came through earthy. The finish was bitter, but lacked the crisp bite found in my favorite IPAs.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Simple golden with a small head. Flavor of wheat and some sweetness... maybe a touch of clove. Nothing special here... kinda ordinary. Drinkable, but not exciting.
Hershiser2 (8215) reviewed #9 from Magic Hat Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Clear orangish with no head. Unfamiliar aroma... not a huge aroma, but it’s there. Flavor is... well, kinda lacking, a bit like unsweetened koolaid, but not even that strong. Decent, and I’ll give it another shot now that I’ve read about it... but I wasn’t overly impressed.