#9 - Magic Hat Brewing Company

jb413

Massachusetts

3.53/5  rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Free beer tonight.

A - Straight from the bottle, gave it a 4 for benefit of the doubt.

S - A bit of fruity/floral hoppiness playing around some moderate apricot/peachy scent and some grainyness.

T - Lighter pale malt backbone with a top layer of apricoty fruit flavor. Taste is sweeter and somewhat artifical but short of cloying or off-putting for me. A short wave of mild hop bitterness leads into a sweeter, wet finish with traces of apricot lingering.

MF - Has a refreshing crispness attribute. Fairly light-bodied. Thin in character which makes it drinkable. Carbonation is lively but not overdone. I did not get the dry finish in this one at all.

O - This is perhaps a bit above average for fruit beer category. Mostly one-dimensional. The apricot flavor is sweet but not too much. I would not go out of my way for this, and it's not really worthy of being a flagship beer, but it's decent. I can see it working better on hot days for sure.

Serving type: bottle

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