Intensely Juicy Dank Beautiful (Copy & Paste) - Galaxy, Simcoe And Mosaic
Tired Hands Brewing Company

This was yet another beer that I traded for a while ago, as the date on the bottom of the can read 8/23/17 with "EZ STREET" written below it. Quite a description to this beer as it was an American Pale Ale that at heart looked and tasted more like a trendy IPA. Regardless of any perceived identity crisis, this was an incredibly smooth beer that had plenty of hops, flavor, and appeal to it without being overly cloudy, gimmicky, or forced as the end result was something that didn't last in my pint glass for very long.

This beer poured cloudy, golden, and topped off with plenty although the lacing was mostly in the form of a thick glob of soapy suds along the back half of my pint glass in the middle. Lots of oats, cantaloupe, floral notes, star fruit, and dry fruit in the nose as the taste contained all of those as well. Dank, earthy, and complex, there was a lot going on in the taste and this was a bit heavy but not enough to weigh this beer down or requite a chaser of water to completely get it down. Not as juicy as I was hoping for, there were hints of blueberry, blackberry, and boysenberry in the mouthfeel but they almost got subsumed by everything else that was going on here...

Not a lot of booze to this and the carbonation was light as the aftertaste contained some mint freshness, pine, and deep forest. This wasn't quite like the description but I enjoyed it and the full body that it had, in spite of any perceivable malt. Citrus rind and pith lingered in the aftertaste as I wish I had a fresher can, but only to see if this could have been better the second time around!

 

From a 16oz can come the release earlier this month. A little different hop mix this time but still excellent. Here’s the release notes: “designed to recreate a classic-ish American Pale Ale (or is it an IPA?!?) with a few modern twists like oats and hops... LOTS of modern hops. This batch was foolishly hopped and dry hopped with Nelson Sauvin, Simcoe, and Chinook at the silly rate of 8lbs per barrel!!! Why do we do this? What do you want? Where does inspiration come from? Is this a form of inspired creativity? Hey man how’s it going? 5.9%abv.”

 

 

From 8/26/17

 

 

 

16 oz. can dated 8/23/17

Pours cloudy opaque gold with a dense creamy white foam head. Smells like juicy mango, peach, pineapple, passionfruit, guava, berries, melon, grapefruit, orange citrus, lemon, caramelized bready wheaty malts, with woodsy dank floral earthy herbal grassy resinous spicy pine. Tastes like mango, peach, pineapple, slight bubblegum, passionfruit, guava, berries, melon, grapefruit, orange citrus, lemon, caramelized bready wheaty malts, with woodsy dank floral earthy herbal grassy resinous spicy pine. Feels medium bodied, creamy smooth with moderate low carbonation. Overall a real nice juicy pale ale.