Magic Hat Wacko

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

Pours a pinkish orange with a soapy white head with a pink hue. This beer tastes and smells like grain. I’m not really calling it malty. Its smell and tastes like raw grain. medium body with a bit of an oily finish.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a crystal clear, reddish-pink color with a light pink fizzy head that dissipates quickly to a thin layer that lasts throughout. Leaves a little lacing on the glass. The aroma is a very light malty sweetness, quite subdued. Almost more grainy than malty. A slight bitterness to balances it out. Definitely crisp, as in the description. Light bodied. Lively carbonation.

Ok, I can see why this is called Wacko. It really is a weird beer. Since I work in the food industry I know beet extract is a dye and not a flavor and beet sugar is just like cane sugar so, this is not suppse to have beet flavor (thank God). To be honest it taste like Miller High Life. So I’m probably being very generous with my score but I love the color.

12oz bottle. Pours a strawberry red with a light pink two finger head that fizzled out quickly. Has a very mild malt aroma. The taste was light and consisted of sweet beet, apricot and a grainy malt. Flowery hops detected towards the finish as well. Mild flavors but very refreshing.

Pours red, has a sweet malt aroma to it. I didn’t get much out of the flavor. It was different and tasty but not much to the body.

Bottle: Poured a red color with a pink head. The aroma was sweet and fruity. The flavor was actually weak, watered down and hard to find. Overall, weird to drink a beer that is bright red and tastes nothing like it looks.

Pours light red/pink with a foamy white head that disappears quickly, looks more like a soda. Aroma is sweet with fruit and grain. Taste is quite plain and watery, not much to talk about.

bottle - Pours cloudy pinkish orange with some larger suspended yeast flakes. It has a light, wheaty, fruity aroma. The taste is is mild and sweet. I’m not really getting beets. Granted I can’t remember the last time I ate a beet. I don’t much care for them. However I’m not tasting anything particularly odd in this beer except maybe a little in the finish. It’s just sweet and unfortunately watery. It would be alright on a hot summer day, but is quite bland.