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There’s a trick to #9. It is 10x better freshly brewed! I went to the magic hat brewery and had #9 there. The taste was so much better, you could tell it was due to the freshness. It ruined the beer for me though, because now I know what I’m buying off the shelf is a bit old.



Most beers are better at the brewery IMO, and most beers are better on draft. One beer I especially like in a can is Boddingtons because of the CO2 capsule that makes its pour quite similar to a draft beer. I think a few other beers have the same innovation. I believe I’m the only person at my local package store who buys it, as they order very little and I always seem to buy the last couple 4-packs.


Right, but I think because it’s an apricot beer, the freshness has more of an impact on taste than other beers. Just speculating


Fruit ages pretty well in general, but I'd strongly suspect that Magic Hat had DO levels back then that would horrify the industry today.




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