{"id":2555,"date":"2010-05-04T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/blog\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2010-04-27T22:16:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T02:16:58","slug":"wacko-is-backo-magic-hat-beet-inspired-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/wacko-is-backo-magic-hat-beet-inspired-ale\/","title":{"rendered":"Wacko is Backo &#8211; Magic Hat &#8211; Beet Inspired Ale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.2beerguys.com\/images\/forblog\/magic_hat_wacko_spring_seasonal.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I first tried this beet inspired beer on a brewery tour in Burlington, Vermont.  I was surprised last year when the trial batch was selected for the spring seasonal.  Wacko seemed to receive an overwhelming response, selling very well in New England.<\/p>\n<p>Well, IIIIIIItttttttttttt&#8217;s back!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beer Profile:\u00a0 The liquid song of summer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crisp like the morning, cool like the evening and quenching all day long.\u00a0 Pop the top and set your summer loose.\u00a0 Wacko is a delicious summer beer with a big malty aroma, a subdued hop bite and a clean, slightly sweet finish.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Style:<\/strong> Summer Beer<\/li>\n<li><strong>Original Gravity in Plato:<\/strong> 11.0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Malt:<\/strong> Pale, Beet Sugar<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hops:<\/strong> Apollo<\/li>\n<li><strong>Yeast:<\/strong> English Ale<\/li>\n<li><strong>IBUs:<\/strong> 15<\/li>\n<li><strong>% ABV:<\/strong> 4.5<\/li>\n<li><strong>Color in SRM:<\/strong> 4.65<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first tried this beet inspired beer on a brewery tour in Burlington, Vermont. I was surprised last year when the trial batch was selected for the spring seasonal. Wacko seemed to receive an overwhelming response, selling very well in New England. Well, IIIIIIItttttttttttt&#8217;s back!! Beer Profile:\u00a0 The liquid song of summer Crisp like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[548,32],"tags":[1060,2043,1059],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/magic_hat_wacko_spring_seasonal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}