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 gobias:
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Reviewed by gobias from Maryland

2.64/5  rDev -7.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
Generally I really like Magic Hat offerings, except this one.

The color is a bit odd, a pale pinkish, to me it looked like diet soda. It has a pleasant sweet smell. The taste is kind of bland. Its not offensive or over powering but rather lacking any real lasting flavor. Once again, with the taste I was kind of reminded of diet soda.
Apr 26, 2009
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