During a visit to Wildwood, NJ over the summer with some peeps, I found a special edition case of beer for autumn stashed in the back freezer of Bubba's Warehouse, ironically while looking for limes to put in my Corona Light that evening. Entitled Night of the Living Dead, this case contains four different types of beer by Magic Hat Brewing Company: Hex Ourtoberfest, #9, Humble Patience, and H.I.P.A. Being one to wish Halloween was more like a quarterly event rather than a monthly deal, I am devoting the next three weeks of Turkey month with Booze Reviews dedicated to these four tasty drinks contained in the oh-so-special Night of the Living Dead 12-Pack assortment. Beginning with...
Subject: Hex Ourtoberfest
Brewing Company: Magic Hat Brewing Company in South Burlington, VT (U.S.)
ABV: 5.40%
Location of Purchase: Bubba's Warehouse in Wildwood, NJ (08/2011)
Date of Consumption: 10/2011
Analysis:
As
much as I love Magic Hat, I was sure blindsided by the somewhat
cardboard-esque taste of the first installment in the Night of the Living
Dead set. I cannot express enough how awful this reddish brew is to the taste buds. While it is called "Ourtoberfest", it is certainly not "My-toberfest". Nor should it be yours!
This
rusty sucker just tastes stale and bland. Hopefully, this is merely a speed bump in the rest of my exploits with Night of
the Living Dead roster. Except that I know the #9 inside is deliciously awesome. However, do not drink this Ourtoberfest as a starter, tweener or finisher drink throughout the course of your evening. As much as I love the mighty Magic Hat, I say "Avoid the Noid" with this one.
Final Verdict:
Hex...what a fitting name! Skip it...nothing to see here. Save your calories, alcohol content and liver and simply move along to another bottle. Unless you like your beer to smell like football pads after a long, summer full contact practice. Again I love the Magic Hat maestros, but I love my readers who hold their wild drinking nights in my hand even more and simply cannot recommend this one. Maybe I'll have better news next week with my second Magic Hat's Night Of The Living Dead sampling next week.
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7 comments:
You don't often encounter a beer you don't like, do you?
Alex - it's rare, I know. But this one is straight up awful. I think the last one I despised (that I reviewed) was way back in summer 2010. So yeah, if I day it's bad...it's bad. Real bad.
Alex - oh and did you see the top of my sidebar? Bring on the Fire!1
Good review there man. I just reviewed it a while back, and while I don't ever recall the smell of football pads after a sweaty summer of practice (never smelled those, though I could imagine), we agree on the overall feeling of the brew.
Erik - Thanks. It just smelled danky and got worse as I got closer to finishing it off. Awful. I hope I get some better brew put of this one besides the three #9's.
I'm glad you are a beer lover not a critic. Thanks for the trusted recommendations!
Gracias, Nick! I always aim to please.
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