Magnum
A favorite among malt liquor drinkers, Magnum delivers smooth, refreshing beer taste and enjoyment in a malt liquor.
1.5
203 reviews
Milwaukee, United States
Community reviews
From a 40! Stamped MAY0514-CO5110027. OK! Rating this on style rather than on the merits of a craft beer - this looks exactly like it should with a pale yellow color and a humongous white fizzy head that eventually fizzles down. Unlike other malt liquors the aroma is not like antiseptic. It has a clean corn and barley malt character. The body is light, smooth, and refreshing. The taste is corny and grainy but it’s not pucker up metallic like so many can be. I have to say that this is a far better beer than other raters are giving it credit for. Certainly - not a craft beer but for the style it is right on the money and is one others should strive to emulate.
From the 40, gold color, aroma is lots of corn, some grass. Taste starts harsh but smooths out. Id rather have a king cobra.
24oz can, courtesy of womencantsail, pours with a clear gold body that supports a thin cobweb like nearly bright white head. The aroma offers up apple and pear estery sweetness and sugary malts and little else. The taste at first sip is pretty offensive but my palate is somewhat adjusting. It delivers estery fruity sweetness as well as modest sugary malt sweet enhanced floral hops. Not too terrible but not at all worth trying again.
Dented 16oz can in a paper bag on my way to DLD - my first paper bag rating. Hooray! Corn. Sweet. Fuck it’s flat here. For once it’s not that flooded here in Indiana. Not that bad for 99 cents.
Clear yellow with a medium white head. This had a light, grassy taste. This wasn’t as bad as expected. I would drink this again.
40oz bottle poured into a snifter. Pours a pale, clear gold with no head. Aroma of corn and grains. Taste is light bitter and light sweet. Medium bodied with a thin texture. Soft carbonation and not much of a finish. Overall, meh. Kinda weak.
Bottle.
Pours a piss-yellow and smells like failure. The kind of failure that comes from when you realize the most awesome thing you own is that pair of retro-Jordans. And you work at McDonald’s. And those tats? Well, you may need another arm if you keep having more babies. The taste is like that point in every binge-drinking extravaganza in college where you hover between sobriety and puking your guts out onto the sidewalk on the way to your car. Apples and corn. Like a good soup for bums. I think I may be going blind drinking this.
ファイナルファンタジ. Malt liquor ticks. You know, this one is a bit too harsh to be honest. It’s super fresh though, that might be why. Maybe I like aged malt liquors. Not exactly smooth or refreshing, but I do notice some beer taste. The photo they use for this one is pretty out of focus, someone must have gotten buzzed quick. On the upside, I just clocked out from a 13 hour shift and get a day off in 13 days. Tomorrow is pay day but I’m going to put all of that towards the new car anyways, so it’s not nearly as fun as when you are sixteen and living with your mom and thinking the world is tough. Blow your small check on malt liquor and video games, get buzzed quick late at night. Now you just drink this swill and post about it on a beer website as if anyone really cared. It’s quite possible that you even ramble on about it for awhile and not even describe the beer itself. It happens. Does anyone remember that commercial where the dude makes $129.95 and quits because he can afford a Nintendo 64? I did that shit but with a PSone. Pretty sure I had enough money left over to buy resident evil. Final Fantasy VIII was a good game, fuck the haters.
I honestly just wanted to catch a good buzz and go to sleep. This did the trick but aside from that its terrible and as the clerk at my local 7-11 says "it'll get ya there" and that's about it
Pours a golden color with a big tight head that fizzes out to basically nothing
The dominant aroma I can only describe as "robust corn" I think that’s one of the better corn characters a beer can display, along with that we’ve got some mild skunk, and some light breakfast cereal.
The flavor is really odd, pretty boozy, there is a good deal of sweet corn here, surprisingly there is a fairly defined bitterness as well.
The finish is notably rough.
I wanted to love this, but it’s just not cuttin’ the mustard.
24 oz can to pint. Here goes... Looks thin and light by malt liquor standards; lots of carbonation and white head that quickly dissipates. Smells cheap and doughy. Tastes doughy and slightly sweet; better than I expected. Average on the palate. Exceeded my expectations!
Shitty malt liquor. Not the cheapest out there but pretty close. The stuff bum dreams are made of.
Shatter-proof 40. Gold in color, whit ehead. Milder aroma, smells boozy for the abv. Flavor is maild, mild salinity, high prickly carb, metal, boost, not the greatest malt.
Bottle @ the First Annual Rocky Mountain Malt Liquor Tasting. Golden appearance with a white head. Boozy, corny, shit aroma. Fusel alcoholic, shitty, grassy, straw flavor. Yuck.
Pour out of 40 oz is clear yellow with white head, aroma has notes of corny, bready notes touch of fusels. Taste is sweet grainy biscuit and corn, hints of grass and more corn.
40 oz. bottle from Food Lion Malt Liqueur Emporium
Ar: Lovely corn aroma.
Ap: Lovely clear gold.
T: Wickedly sweet corn flavour. Complex notes of butthole. This one’s pretty mad. How do you get an alcohol burn into a ~5% beer? That’s impressive!
P: Sticky.
O: Wonderful creation.
Hair of the dogged with this monstrosity this morning. It’s absolutely disgraceful.
Purchased at Sherry’s Wine and Liquors in Woodley Park, Washington, DC. Poured from a stunningly horrendous black and gold sixteen ounce can into a snifter. The beer pours a clear straw gold with actually quite a vivacious little head. The nose is marked most notably with cereal grain, hay, skunky bitterness, metallic astringency, and some sickly sweet honey. The flavor brings more wretched sweetness and tinny dominance, with really no positive traits. The taste of rust lingers horribly. This beer reminds me of the sensation I imagined on my tongue when reading tales of the Guosim shrews of Redwall, most notably when the ferocious rodents were forced to portage their logboats through mire and muck due to unpassable streams. The skunky, vegetable aroma reminds me of what those poor creatures must have endured entering their nasal cavities as they trekked through those putrid, stagnant, repulsive environs, and the metallic zing reminded me of the cold steel as they drew their rapiers to inevitably overcome the onslaught of wicked swamp creatures such as lizards and dive-bombing fowl of all sort. I remember reading those chapters of Brian Jacques’s legendary series as a wee one, and I was always tense with the excitement evoked by such a negative situation. Drinking this beer strikes me as little better. LOGALOGALOGALOG!!!!!
My favorite discount liquor store always has this and Hamm’s at $2.99 for a six-pack of cans. Next time I’m impecunious, I’ll go for the Hamm’s instead.
This one pours a clear golden yellow with a frothy but quickly vanishing white head. Smell and aroma weren’t as offensive as I had feared: corn, hay, and chemicals. Has a slightly metallic aftertaste, Better than many of the other "gets you drunk on the cheap" beers and malt liquors I’ve tried
Served in a brown paper bag while waiting in a driving snow storm in Feb. 11’ for a train to arrive. The snow is coming down at a rate of above 3" per hour. Looks like the weatherman was right about this storm. The only thing we are missing tonight is a 55 gallon drum with a fire. That would be very nice right about now... This beer smells of wet hay and tastes (in chugs) like foam and stale MGD. This is not a good beer, but it is getting us thru the storm while we wait for the blessed train!
bottle pours gold with a thin white head that doesn’t stick around for very long. Aroma is metallic with loads of corn and pale grain. Flavor is rich hay, grassy grains and faint skunk and corn finishing with a lingering sweetness.
Malt Liquor Appreciation Day 2011; 40 oz. bottle; thanks Alex!! This an absolutely perfect looking malt liquor; artificially bright and clear gold with huge eggy white head; fresh, soapy aromas of stale bread, honey, dried lemons, stale malt; quite sweet on first sip but a little booze hits soon afterwards; slightly metallic, but otherwise a hefty malt liquor that drinks a little stronger than the listed ABV IMO; corn, alcohol and white sugar; pretty damn good overall
Pale pour with a white head. Aroma is sweet of grass and yeast/bread. Somewhat sweet/sour flavor.
Aaahhhh!! Malt liquor! This one of the better of them, but, let’s be honest, that’s not saying much. Good for getting drunk.
My favorite of the big brand 40s, tastes like a pilsner on steroids. Big rich, grainy, no booziness, finishes smooth.
Chemical odor, no hops, all sweet/malt corn filler. Skunky. No real flavor profile. Just forget it.
32 oz bottle from Albertson’s Market. They didn’t have any 40’s. Nose of grass, and a little graininess, but predominately grassy. Clear gold with a big, lightly lacing white head. Flavor is very light bitterness and light sweetness. Those must be some hops in there!
Pours a typical yellow color distinct to malt beers. A skunky corn aroma. Taste is metallic with minor alcohol tinge. Overall not a beer I would buy again. Drinking it once is good enough for me.
A: The pour is a pale golden head with a short lived fluffy white head.
S: Sweet grain and adjuncts. Lots of corn and a bit of alcohol.
T: Metallic corn and lots of sweetness overall. Not really all that much going on.
M: Light in body with a fizzy carbonation and a short finish.
D: Not very good, even by malt liquor standards.
4/20/10. "Florida Forty" (aka 32oz bottle because of our stupid laws) into a pint glass. The pour is a clear, light yellow with a small fizzy white head that fades to nothing fast. Hurray for clear glass, this puppy reeks of skunk before even finishing pouring. A whiff after reveals more skunk, bran, cereal grains, and calcium water. The flavor is a hint of sweet corn flakes and pale malt with a huge dose of sour lingering around... blech.
Some vanilla-like flavor, a bit of honey and caramel, and just a slight bit of hops. Sour... mid-level carbonation. Off-flavors lingered a little too long for my liking, but while it was in the mouth it was good enough.