Magic Hat Brewing Company is a wholly owned brand of Florida Ice & Farm Co., which is headquartered in Costa Rica.

It began production as an independent craft brewer in South Burlington, Vermont in 1994, and the brand is distributed across the United States.

[6] FIFCO soon began producing some Magic Hat beer at their Genesee Brewing Company plant in Rochester, New York.

[7] Another Burlington based brewery, Zero Gravity, assumed the lease on Magic Hat's physical plant, along with the brewing and retail assets within the space.

[9] Magic Hat brews five year-round beers: #9 "Not Quite Pale Ale", Taken for Granite, Mother Lager, Citrus Box, Ob-La-Di, What's on Stage, Nirav, Elder Betty and Single Chair.