Stoner Shake - Cherry Pie
Tired Hands Brewing Company

Canned 04/16/26, into a stemless wine glass.

Pours a light orange with good white foam, great head retention. Aroma is sweet vanilla, canned cherries, and A LOT of fresh dankness. Flavor is similar. The lactose, oats, and vanilla add a smooth creamy note while the cherries and terpenes play rather nicely, but strangely. There's cherry flavor in the kush, but it comes across as weirdly savory and not as sweet as I would want, which is crazy bc this is a sugar bomb. As usual for Tired Hands, the hops express as vegetal dankness and a little bitterness to balance out the sugar, but it adds to the weird savory ideas in a not great way. I don't hate it, it's just that this is supposed to taste like a laced cherry pie or a sweet edible, and it comes across more like chewing on fresh flower with some sweetness. I really don't hate the flavor, I just think the cherry pie idea should be in front of the terpenes and dank IPA to really sell the "liquid edible" idea. Feel is perfect, thick, smooth, creamy, and sticky throughout. Exactly what I would want from the beer. Higher body but the terpenes combined with the ABV make that a very enjoyable, intoxicating experience.

Overall, this is such a cool concept I wish was executed differently. It's not that it's bad or poorly done, I just would want the balance in a different direction. It's really fun, interesting, and weirdly complex, not the sugar bomb I thought it would be. Just not exactly what I wanted.