Magic Hat Jinx

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours clear sepia with a fizzy buff head. Aroma offers caramel, toasted malt, and subtle peaty and smoky tones. Flavor delivers caramel and toasted malt, and more smoky character, plus hints of woody spices. Mouthfeel presents good body but so-so fizz. Let it jinx you.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

A murky amber colored beer with a two fingered sudsy textured, off white head rising above. There's some hang time on the head. A thick ringlet is left. Sweet biscuit malts in the nose. There's a smokiness in the tasting. Light medium bodied. Wasy to drink.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

My favorite one from the new Night of the Living Dead Fall Variety Pack. Says smoked ale, but pretty much a Scotch Ale. A light to medium semi-clear brown appearance. Not much aroma. Flavors of caramel malt, bread, light hop, and a little smokiness. Not something to fall in love with, but makes the 12-pack bundle worth it and I could see myself grabbing a 6 of this from time to time if available.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Aroma is grainy with some malty sweetness and offers some very light smokey overtone as well as some slight caramel. Appearance is a rich, burgundy-reddish in color when held to the light with great clarity with a medium-sized head on top that is off-white in color and leaves nice, creamy lacing on the glass. Mouthfeel is dry-like with some good complexity as well as smokey balance with a palate that is creamy and rather light and very good. Flavor is of smoked malt and some sweetness with an aftertaste that offers some slight chocolate caramel overtone with a finish that is a bit thin but wet-like and thirst-quenching. Overall, great brew here for sure and I am quite surprised I must say so, recommended...

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Decent brew here, caught somewhere between a Brown Ale and an American Strong Ale. Mildly roasted coffee nose with some woody malt and a nice semi-sweetness. Medium brown pour with a creamy 3/4" light brown head and minimal lacing. Malty body with a creamy yet fizzy carbonated mouth feel. Flavor is big on the malts with hints of toasted bread, peaty-woody malt, a touch of smoke along with some minor coffee and chocolate tastes. All of these flavors are rather tame, but they meld together well. All around this is a nice mildly strong brown ale, I liked the couple I sampled.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Beer pours chestnut brown with red highlight, nice head but no lacing. Aroma of malts and nuts. Flavor was lightly smokey with caramel malts and a nuttiness and roastiness remiscient of a brown ale. Sort of like it can't make up its mind if it wants to be a brown ale or a scottish ale. Not a bad little beer.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Amberish brown colour, with minor beige head. Aroma is leather, sweet caramellish malts and toffe. Even shows slight alcoholic hints. Flavour is roasted malts, hops, caramel and toffee. Quite dry in the aftertaste. Where’s the smoke?

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Basically a strong ale...i taste some american and scottish character. Only a slight smokiness in a pale aroma. The flavor begins with dark and sweet toffee... Toasty, some earthy complexities, with notes of peat, lumber, raisins; tastes of autumn, boston baked beans. Mouthfeel got a bit flat...slight smoke flavor, somewhat burnt and rusty aftertaste wasn't all together. Overall, this was good enough, a respectable effort, flavorful and i enjoyed it.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Jinx is based on a "Belgian strong ale", and a portion of peat smoked malt is added to this brew as well. I have had this beer on draught, and in bottles on many occasions, once at a beer fest where the diacetal butter character was extremely high and was like drinking butter! But I have to say, those many samples at the tap room, and that growler to go are my fondest memories of this beer. Jinx Strong ale pours to a beautiful garnet color, with a nice tan head, and a good carbonation. The nose is very interesting on this beer. Very earthy, yeasty aromas, mingle with that "burnt turf" peat smoked aroma, ans some good sweet malt aromas. The palate is as complex and rich as the nose. Really a nice malt back bone, flavors of caramel, toffee, peat, and buttery esters from the ringwood coat the tongue. The body is fairly hefty, slightly viscous, really a satisfying mouth feel. This beer finishes with more sweet maltiness up front, some more peat smoked malt flavor, and ends with a slightly warming burn. Hop presence in this beer is only at the balancing threshold. This is a really unique, rich, and flavorful beer. Lots going on here, and a beer you can really savor. I would match this beer with Vermont smoked cheddar cheese, and cold cuts. This beer would also work well as a night cap.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

11.06.04 12oz bottle. Red colored stuff with smallish tan head. Sweet aromas of wet grain, earth, wet leaves. The flavor is round, more peat, some raisin, chewy. Reminds of brown bread. It’s okay but interesting and not at all something I’m glad I have three more of. Tastes more like a peaty Scotch ale to me than a smoked, but whatever. Aftertaste of cherries is tough to shake.