Magic Hat Brewing Company is in South Burlington, VT. I’m still pissed that they stopped making Fat Angel—not only is that a sweet name, it was a sweet
beer. I’m not sure Lucky Kat makes up for Fat Angel, but...Lucky Kat has a flat caramel nose, and not much else in terms of aroma. The color is a cloudy dark copper with an ivory head. Elli’s cantankerous nature was in full swing this evening—her response to “how does this start?” was “well, first, I pick up my glass.” Lucky Kat starts with a big rounded malt sweetness—there are good amounts of caramel and biscuit playing across the palate—before moving into a dry flat malt taste with low levels of bitterness and some slight spicy hop flavor in the middle, and ending with a return of the caramel flavors with a biscuit undertone, but not much in the way of bitterness. Lucky Kat is medium-bodied with a medium-to-low level of carbonation—it doesn’t play a large part in the overall mouthfeel. As a whole, there is a good malt profile—the biscuit and
caramel flavors are well developed—but it needs a larger hop presence to justify the IPA label. And how does it finish? “Well, when I’m done, I put my glass down, and decide if I want another.” Smartass.From the Magic Hat website: “Lucky Kat purrs as he pours with a grin on his mangy face and a grin in his searching eye. He sits on the fence he calls home, dividing up from down. Is he an imperial beast or a pale soul from the east? Only he knows and we know only this: if you reach out to pet him he'll bite back with a big, hoppy kiss.”
Man, forced rhyming AND tedious prose. Everyone knows that those two are two great tastes that taste great together.
ABV: 5.8%
IBU: 60
OG: 14.2° P
Malts: Pale, Munich, Crystal, & Cara
Hops: Amarillo & Crystal
(1/18/2010)
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