Magic Hat Circus Boy

Brewed by Magic Hat Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
South Burlington, Vermont USA

12 oz bottle from a variety 12 pack. Pours a hazy straw yellow with a large fluffy white head and some visible floating dollops of yeast floating around. Aroma was bad, weak overall but what there was showed up as lemony wheat grass, plastic, and slight sulfur. Thin to medium bodied with nothing standing out as good or bad, sort of forgetable. Flavor luckily was pretty decent with notes of grainy wheat, slight lemon and just a strong grainy malt base overall. Well it wasn’t good it wasn’t bad it was just there.

Pours a light golden color with a decent head. Aroma is citrus, spices, and lemongrass. Light flavor, easy to drink.

To a beer that claims to be THE HEFE of beers, it fails to live up to bold statement. The appearance is very clear when looking through the body and appears to have been filtered at some point, there are hints of lemon in the taste to this yellow body beer that light and it’s not well balanced at all.

Poured a yellow color with a sparse white head. Aroma of citrus and lemongrass. Flavor is distinctly hefeweizen, with a lemony kick at the end.

Pale golden in color with ja filmy white head. Aroma contains citrus, and something a little bit peculiar which I assume is lemongrass. In the mouth it tasted like a Hefeweisen, but the aftertaste is quite a bit more bitter then I expected. The truth is that I really appreciate the approach of this brewery: they are seemling always trying to be original, but not off the deep end. This beer isn’t a winner though and should likely be re-thought.

Dark yellow with a fizzy head, citrus and bready aroma and taste with a big zesty lime presence.

Not the best Magic Hat, not the best hefe, kind of bland and light for my taste, but a decent beer nonetheless.

not as offensive as i thought it might be. the main flavor and aroma proponent is a biscuity wheat quality. whether that is actually malt or just some noxious combination of lemongrass and weizen yeast i do not know. first of all, this is at best a wheat beer and not a weizen, since it is clearly been highly filtered, pours as clear as your average rice beer. i dont see how anyone is rating this as cloudy, this is very transparent. i dont sense any real lemongrass or even lemon, and very little to no citrus whatsoever so im not sure what good its inclusion was. i dont even know if id qualify this as an ’interesting take’ on a wheat beer, this is not a total waste but the ridicolous amount of creativity going into the name, label and corporate image has certainly trumped the intregue provided by the actual beer. mostly completed with this beer and now im noticing a very strong aftertaste that lingers for 20-30 seconds after each sip. i take back what i said earlier, this is now beginning to qualify as ’offensive’