Magic Hat Vinyl Lager:
Greetings and salutations one and all.  Today lets spin some classics, shall we?  I love vinyl; their sound, art work, hell, just the way they feel makes you feel like you’re in the studio, watching the whole album come together.  It really is an awesome genre of recording that is, thankfully, finding it’s way back, albeit in a niche group.  Today’s brew is named after such wonderfulness, Magic Hat’s Vinyl Lager, a spring brew from the folks in Vermont and their vertigo inducing bottle caps.  Now I’ll be first to admit that the Magic Hat name doesn’t get my motor very revved up when I see it.  I think they have decent brews but they aren’t anything that unique nor are they anything to offend either; they are just there, to be drunk when their turn comes up.  The beer itself pours a dark amber with some initial caramel colored head that quickly dissipates into just a few bubbles on the sides of the cup and a nose of roasted malts and coffee.  The beer has a very clean taste with the roasted malts being predominate in the whole drinking process with an aftertaste that reminds me of burnt sugar and for a beer that has 5.1% ABV, there is not much of a noticeable alcohol content.  Nothing special beer wise, I know a lot of people swear by Magic Hat and I’m sure I’ll run across one of their beers that I really enjoy soon enough (just like I did with Rahr) but I’m happy to have this one off the list and ready to move on to the next beer.