Hurricane
Is a full-bodied, robust, slightly sweet-tasting malt liquor.
1.5
217 reviews
St. Louis, United States
Community reviews
brother gave me a taste from a can more than 20 yrs ago..and was very forgettable.
Can shared at the Cotteridge Convention 2015. You’re welcome, friends! Pours clear - crystal clear! - pale yellow with a nice, creamy white head. The aroma holds sugary white bread, corn and freshly milled grains. Medium sweet flavor with sugary white bread, faint hay bitterness. Medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Sweet finish with further white bread, delicate white sugar, pale grains. Tasty malt liquor. Excellent drinkability for the style.
Low boost ML split at Cotts, thanks to LKS, 24/01/15.
Clear pale golden with a moderate off white head.
Nose is sweet tunes all round, candy, grain, straw.
Taste comprises caramel, sweet sugary lickings, candy bar, soft bread. cereal, corn on the cob without the butterbomb.
Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close.
Lacks boost but not a bad Licker Ticker.
25 Oz can shared by Enniskillen. Nose is sweet sugary bubblegum. Clear gold with a medium white head. Flavor is lightly sweet and bubblegum.
Can cotteridge pissup. Yellow thin head. Aroma is corn pale malts taste same. Thin body. Not good.
Share at Cotteridge Convention 24/1/15.
Golden amber malty Lager, Average and uninspiring!
Can at the Cotteridge Convention thanks to Leighton. It pours very pale gold with a small white head. The nose is sweet, sugary, sticky, grainy and some chemical fumes. The taste is sweet, grainy, cheap white bread, light alcohol, syrupy and corn bread. Medium body and average carbonation. Not nearly as much buzz as I had hoped for. Not too bad for the style. Drinks easy.
24th Jan 2014. Can at the RateBeer Cotteridge Wine meeting. This is the sort of beer that should be drank with the can inside a paper bag while you lie underneath a Park Bench, so you think no one can see you! Lager looking beer, golden, clean and bright, white fading head. Sweet, corn, grain and nasty. Cheers Leighton, of all the US beers, you brought this! Disclaimer: Leighton also brought some awesome stuff with him, thanks mate.
Can at the Cotteridge Convention, many thanks to Leighton for this one. Straw to gold with fizzed head. Sweet liquor, it wouldn’t be amiss in the hands of the local wino’s. Really pretty bad. Tried it, moving on.
Can share. Cotteridge Beano. Awful, thin, chemical, sweet, malty shite. Not the worst of the day, but not far off.
Can at Cotteridge wine convention; clear straw yellow pour with thin white head, sweet caramel aroma, taste has toffee apple, skunk, very sweet.
440ml can. Pours gold with a thin head. Aroma is sweet lemon. Taste has sweet icing sugar and corn.
Forced to drink from a massive bottle of this by Tubes, thanks a lot guys. Clear gold color, fluffy head with good retention. Aroma of air. Taste of water with one drop of cleaning fluid spilled into it. Definitely on of the better malt liquors I have tasted.
Transfer from BA review on 3-23-12 -
Poured from 40 oz bottle into grenade pint glass
Appearance – Pours a medium golden color with a big billowy white head. The head is composed of big carbonation bubbles; the ones that are seen rising through the beer. The head fades very fast and gives way to a very light amount of lacing.
Smell – The aroma is heavy in corn and has a slight metallic odor.
Taste – The taste is of corn and rice in nature mixed with a metallic flavor. Some astringency comes in and mixes with the other present flavors. There is a little bit of bitterness that comes in the end and leaves a sting on the tongue. It is actually sorta good as it leaves a rather nice tingle and gets rid of some of the less pleasant metallic and astringent flavors.
Mouthfeel –Rather average body with a medium level of carbonation. It helps make the brew easier to drink and is good for the style.
Overall – Not really the best malt out there. With the price of this 40 oz at only at $2.25, what should I expect though, right?
40oz (Old Notes)-Pours a medium golden with a small head. Aroma of corn, sweetness, and alcohol. Taste of the same. This medium bodied brew is not the best malt liquor I have had.
Can shared at the 5k/7k/11k. Rough stuff. Aroma of sawdust and stale bread. Pours like thin dirty water with champagne bubbles. Taste is corn, malt, and sawdust. Tastes like watered down corn syrup and an aftertaste of stale bread yeast. Horrible stuff.
Bottle...get this...2000 vintage. Yes, this was a 13-year-old malt likka brought to a tasting by a (former) friend. Holy balls. Pours golden with a tiny bubbly ring of off-white head. Nose is honey, white grape, and tons of high fructose corn syrup. Tastes like honey with some macro lager in the background. Thin, with light carbonation. Seriously, this didn’t taste like the mixture of diesel fuel and abortion that I thought it would, but I couldn’t take more than a couple sips. I don’t think the 13 years changed it at all, as the folks in the room that had had it before thought it tasted pretty much the same. Awesome.
Pale yellow pour with a white head. Splotchy lacing. I get corn, grass, greasy alcohol. Tastes weirdly greasy. It actually coats the mouth. Not quite what I remember.
40oz, thanks to caterwaul. Shared with local raters. Totally clear golden color. Thin white head quickly fades to minimal, virtually nothing. Sort of tart, corn, wet bready aroma. Lemony acidic bite to the taste up front. Moderate tart, sweet taste. Light bite, garbage-like funkiness. Light to medium body, from what I can gather from the small sips I’m forcing myself to take. Harsh, rough, lighter carbonation. Lightly slick texture. Awful lager. Awful. Nothing about this is tasty or drinkable. Couldn’t stand more than 4 ounces of this. Light burn, even. Ugh... Totally inappropriate for 6%, just rough overall. Hurlicane, more like it
40oz shared by DrSilverworm. Filtered yellow tan body. Fading, but at first a respectable head. Buttery factory aroma..not too harsh in the grand scheme of beer hell. Buttery, popcorn touches. Somehow smooth and easy, and says " Why don’t you just pound me and get it over with?". Too sugary, approaching Eastern Block grossness. Undesirable.
40 oz bottle to taster (generously shared by DrSilverworm). Looks subpar; a completely transparent metallic gold with white head that quickly dissipates into thin lacing. Smells and tastes like a cheap 40 buzz; corn, metal, and butt pie. Definitely below average on the mouthfeel. Scroll past.
This may be the worst thing to ever enter my mouth. Vinegar corn malt syrup. Looked fine. But that about the only good
40oz bottle. Pours yellow. very sweet grains, nice and citrusy. really very good for the price.
This one is fun to play edward 40 hands with but besides that its nothgin to impressive.
Big Fucken forty @ home, thanks to the malt likka trading king, blackipa. Pours a clear golden orange appearance with a tiny white head. Cotton candy, orange citrusy, a bit corny, smooth aroma. A bit spicy, well carbonated, juicy fruit, citrusy flavor. Totally fucking swillable. Too bad Shaun Hill hasn’t stared to bottle forties yet. Would love to see hobos pounding clear liter bottles of Mimosa.
Clear gold color, outta a 40. Nose is mostly adjuncts of corn and rice, sweet with no hops at all. Really just somethin to swill while hanging out, nothin special at all but ok to get buzzed out on!
Bracing for the smooth taste. gold. Bit of a white head inside the 40 itself. Smooth, clean, just a touch sweet. Minimal grape drank, no metal. Swills good. Crushed in 10 minutes. Nice.
THOUGHTS: My favorite junk beer, but I still can’t give it a good score. I can’t believe I’d never rated this before. Nice and cheap. Great for knocking back ice cold while watching playoff games in any sport. The colder the better.
TECHNICAL: Can. Poured a clear, light yellow with nice carbonation and a small, white head that mostly diminished and left virtually no lacing. The aroma had moderate grain; light grassy and metallic hops; slight cardboard; cooked ham; a little butter; and something a little soured. The initial flavor was light to moderately sweet, slightly sour and lightly bitter; while the finish was slightly sweet, light to moderately sour and lightly bitter with a short duration. There was sour malt, vegetable, grain, sugar water, and slightly grassy and metallic hops. The light to medium body was watery and slightly syrupy with fizzy carbonation and a metallic finish.
Yea good luck trying to digest this stuff. Brutal malt/booze flavor and totally crushes your guts. Yes, it’s cheap, but honestly, just don’t drink if this is all you can afford. If you really need this, you have a problem. Come see me, I’ll get you an IPA and get you on the right path.
40oz from gas station. RBSH2 rate. Couldn't find the high gravity version. Pours clear golden straw with big carbonation and a much rockier than expected sheen, white head. Decent lacing. Smells like frat house carpet on Sunday afternoon. Big detergent and sugar cube. Taste is watery, super bland, essentially water. Less beer taste than Busch Light. Super weak palate.