Freedom From The Known
Tired Hands Brewing Company

Poured from a corked bomber into a Dogfish Head tulip

L: Slightly cloudy pink tinged dark golden pour with a finger of fizzy white head. Falls fast... modest lacing.

S: Tart and fruity. Cherry, funk, and vinegar. Oak and barnyard.

T.F: Tart baking cherry and unripened fruit. Funk, oak, and apple cider vinegar. Apple skins... more oak, and lemon citrus. Medium to light bodied. Moderate acidity. Well carbonated... more funk, sour cherry, and cask to finish.

O: Another well done cherry forward tart saison... and right in Tired Hands wheelhouse. Great flavor... very drinkable... really good stuff.

 

 

 

This one pours a dark reddish color, with a small head, and not much lacing.

This smells like spicy cherries, funky red wine, rye, caramel, lemon, and grassiness.

This is supremely funky, with a nice little spiciness there too from the rye and the old cherries. There's some oak, and damp funk, and sour cherry skins/pits.

This is lighter bodied, and slightly prickly, with a lower level of carbonation. It's a slower sipper.

I've been very happy with the TH saison bottles I've had lately - this is nice stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sample at Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2018, Blue Session. Hazy orange reddish color. Aroma is fruity with blood orange notes and light yeast funk. Taste is tart, fruity, mineral and salty with some damp wood barrel notes.

Pours a clear orange-hued light raspberry color with a finger of borderline-fizzy off-white head that's quick to dissipate into a barely-there crown. Zero lacing.

Strong oak, a hint of vinegar, a hint of cherry and a hint of clay in the nose. Go figure.

Definite cherry as well play-doh, formaldehyde, oak and slight rye spiciness in the taste. Some sour, wheat creaminess and cherry tartness mix in the aftertaste; the backend is like a light gose with a little wheat and bandaid in the mix.

Light to medium bodied with light to medium carbonation.

Take me back to the known, please. I like most Tired Hands saisons and I like cherries, but this is below average to my taste.

 

 

This looks like radiant blood orange juice in the glass, with a short-lived head.

The nose is lemon, band-aid, cranberry, and cherry, and the taste mostly follows. Tart lemon and red fruit, with subtle cheese funk and white pepper. The cherry isn't sweet or in your face, but it lingers nicely on the finish. Hints of honey. Mild drying oak on the backend.

The mouthfeel starts spritzy but ends soft. Under-carbed for the style but rounder as a result. This becomes more apparent as it warms.

Overall, very good. This would be awesome on a beach with some fried cod and lemon. Almost like a sparkling wine.

750 ml bottle, dated 12/20/17, poured into a flute

A- A slightly hazy reddish orange with a small off white head.

S- Funky/leather, some oak, tart cherries, touch sweet cherries, lambic like.

T- Sour cherries, some sweet cherries, mild oak, some nice funk, touch of leather, hints of grains.

M- Smooth, light, crisp.

O- A great cherry sour, very lambic like. Worth picking up and stocking up.

 

 

 

 

Appearance: Pours clear, but the color of copper infused with cherry juice; not much of a head and very little lacing

Smell: The Brett has really taken over, bringing leathery funk that blankets the underlying cherry tones; oaky, almost cedary, too

Taste: Cherry tones with Bretty funk and an acetic aspect, from the outset; the tartness builds, through the middle, with an earthy, oaky base forming underneath; an interesting hint of caramel adds a touch of sweetness to the finish, which is otherwise rather dry

Mouthfeel: Medium body with low carbonation

Overall: The flavors here have developed in a very interesting way as the Brett has done its job over time; surprised by the lack of carbonation, however

Thanks, Alequine, for the opportunity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pink hued with a small white head and spotty lace. Notes of cherries, light funk, tart fruits and husky grain. Lighter end of medium body, crisp and really dry. Crushable and tart. I only sampled this at the anniversary party for the Fermenteria but it was very good.