Wacko
Magic Hat Brewing Company

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From:
Magic Hat Brewing Company
 
Vermont, United States
Style:
Fruit and Field Beer
ABV:
4.5%
Score:
67
Avg:
2.85 | pDev: 22.81%
Reviews:
415
Ratings:
781
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Jan 25, 2017
Added:
Feb 28, 2009
Wants:
  6
Gots:
  49
Wacko is the liquid song of summer: Crisp like the morning, cool like the evening and quenching all day long. Pop the top and set your summer loose. Wacko is a delicious summer beer with a big malty aroma, a subdued hop bite and a clean, slightly sweet finish.

15 IBU
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Ratings by BEERMILER12:
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Reviewed by BEERMILER12 from Maine

2.83/5  rDev -0.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Best By Aug 31 2011

A: Pours a golden color with pink/purple hues throughout. About a fingers worth of the same pink/purple color head sticks around for a bit

S: Some floral hops with beets and some malts. Not too much, but it isn't that bad

T: Same as the smell, although the beet sugars make it a little sweet. It is a sweet that, for me at least, becomes grossly astringent and garbage-like when it is given the chance to warm up a little

M: Light bodied with moderate carbonation

O: I'd say that it's an average fruit beer that NEEDS to be drank cold, almost like almost all AAL's if you want any decency out of them. If it's not cold, this becomes a nasty drink that can be hard to down. As long as it's in a cooler, this is an easy-drinking summer beer
Jul 04, 2011
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 2.25 by Noelito76 from New York

Jan 25, 2017
 
Rated: 1.32 by BMBCLT from South Carolina

Jan 05, 2017
 
Rated: 3.49 by Gkruszewski from New York

Jul 13, 2016
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Reviewed by degbert from Texas

1.41/5  rDev -50.5%
look: 2 | smell: 1 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
Poured from bottle. When I was a wee lad, I used to have to accompany my grandmother to the hair salon for her monthly permanent -- the process of which created a fetid stench. This beer smells like a permanent. The color is a vibrant but strange pinkish-orange. It tastes bitter -- but not a good hops bitter, more like a bad medicine bitter, and has little to no carbonation. The aftertaste is worse than the taste, if that’s possible. I don’t know what, exactly, Magic Hat was smoking when they put this one together, but I think it might have been a combination of skunkweed, jimson weed, and bad psilocybin.
Apr 13, 2016
 
Rated: 3.36 by Mtrich08 from Pennsylvania

Dec 31, 2015
 
Rated: 2.58 by PJCarnell from Massachusetts

Sep 16, 2015
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Rated by papat444 from Canada (QC)

2.02/5  rDev -29.1%
look: 2.25 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Flashback #195 - Had this a few years ago, horrible concoction.
Aug 19, 2015
 
Rated: 2.9 by rescuezach4 from Rhode Island

Mar 23, 2015
 
Rated: 2.56 by founddrama from Vermont

Mar 21, 2015
 
Rated: 2.5 by Winston3737 from Michigan

Feb 28, 2015
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Reviewed by Pegasus from Texas

3/5  rDev +5.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Appearance: Clear pale orange in color, with a small, dense white head, which retains well. Finely-beaded lacing adorns the glass walls. The carbonation is modest and slow-rising.

Aroma: Malty, sweet aroma, with some sweet fruity notes.

Taste: Opens with solid malt flavors, sweet, almost artificial fruit notes appear, somewhat reminiscent of breakfast cereal of long-ago childhood. A bit of late bitterness clears out the fruit flavors.

Mouth feel: Fairly soft, with a slight sting of carbonation.

Drinkability/notes: Its OK. Nothing really moves me, maybe because its not summer, or perhaps because endless summer slacking just doesn't resonate right now. But, its alright.

Presentation: Packaged in a standard twelve-ounce brown glass long neck bottle, served in a New Belgium Brewing chalice.
Jan 17, 2015
 
Rated: 2.5 by spycow from Illinois

Nov 30, 2014
 
Rated: 2 by ccapurso from Pennsylvania

Nov 28, 2014
 
Rated: 3.64 by Thjruhf from South Carolina

Nov 26, 2014
 
Rated: 3.4 by WholeLottaTricks from Louisiana

Nov 09, 2014
 
Rated: 2.25 by SpasmWaiter from Vermont

Oct 19, 2014
 
Rated: 2.5 by booga73 from Michigan

Oct 16, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by bluehende from Delaware

Oct 15, 2014
 
Rated: 2.75 by stevehagy from New York

Sep 17, 2014
Wacko from Magic Hat Brewing Company
Beer rating: 67 out of 100 with 781 ratings