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Tired Hands Brewing Company

 

 

glowing golden straw color with a bright white head. araomas and palate pop with blueberry sorbet, orange, big nectarine note, meyer lemon, herbaceous minty like quality, hint of dankness, super creamy marshmallow like aspects, nice smooth bready malts throughout. texture is fluffy as well. wow this stuff is delicious!!

Pours cloudy yellow gold color with active bubbles racing up to a foamy 1 finger white colored head that faded slowly and left very good foamy spotty lacing.

Smells of clementine, lemon zest, orange peel, faint grapefruit, biscuit, toasted grains, tea leaf and dry floral hops, hints of brown sugar, caramel, pineapple and tropical fruit. The nose is full of citrus mixed with tropical fruit and a nice malty backbone which must be part of the oat influence since oats are listed on the side of the can.

Tastes like it smells with clementine, tangerine, orange peel, grapefruit, lemon, biscuit, toasted grains, lime, tea leaf, melon, peppery spices, dry floral hops, hints of brown sugar, caramel, pineapple and tropical fruit. The citrus hop influence almost comes off as bitter, but mellows out as it finishes.

Mouthfeel is smooth and thin, bordering on watery, but it's so easy to drink with the mild carbonation and low level of bitterness that it goes down very easy while masking the 6.6% ABV with all the zesty citrus notes. Like all Tired Hands brews, this has that earthy, hoppy, unique feel that always helps it flow down with ease. The can lists that it's "single oated, single lactosed, single fruited and single dry hopped." That all makes this session worthy and easy to drink for me.

Overall another solid beer from Tired Hands that was very tasty and super easy to drink.

 

 

 

 

 

16 oz. can dated 10/02/17

Pours cloudy opaque yellow gold with a creamy white foam head. Smells like apricot pureé, peach, pineapple, lemongrass, passionfruit, tropical stone fruits, orange citrus, grapefruit, lemon, dark berry, bready crackery malt, oats, lactose milk sugar, with dank spicy woodsy floral resinous earthy herbal grassy pine. Tastes like fresh apricots, unripe peach, pineapple, lemongrass, passionfruit, tropical stone fruits, orange citrus, zesty grapefruit, lemon, dark berry, oats, creamy lactose, bready crackery malt, with dank spicy woodsy floral resinous earthy herbal grassy pine. Feels medium bodied, thick and creamy, smooth with moderate carbonation. Overall a real nice dry hopped IPA with oats, lactose, and apricot pureé.

 

Pours merky orange. No real aroma. Light apricot if anything. Taste lemon zest, chaulky bitternes. Bitterness stays throughout with a light oat finish. Nice ipa.

 

 

This single focused beer seems to nail a few different specific properties fairly well, to say the least in the nose which citrus and hay, little else but those characteristics are solid. Just like the taste, which sports more specifically (as citrus goes) nails tangerine with a pungent earthy olive. The label makes note of lactose, but I really do not get anything from this that would suggest an over the attempt to showcase lactose in any manner. Well crafted, but probably leans towards an enthusiast's fancy moreso than something popular for the masses.