Do You Remember Your Last Good Hair Day?
Hoof Hearted Brewing

 

Opaque copper/orange. 1 finger head slowly flattens to a slick. Smell is atomic orange, electric Kool-Aid. Somewhere a memory of McDonald's orange drink spiked with tequila rouses from a deep memory. Sour citrus tart gives way to a mild sweetness gives way to lemon grass. The puckering can only be satisfied with another drink, which leads to more puckering and more drinking... an endless loop of delight. I know this is meant for a sunny day, but it has just brightened today's rain.
Thanks to Buddy for shipping this out from the source.

1 PINT can
Served in a stemless, wine glass

This beer pours pale yellow with a haze. It is topped with a fleeting beige head that leaves spotty lacing.

It has a sour lemon meringue smell.

It has a sour lemon meringue flavor. I am surprised how sour this beer is. It is really nice.

Thin bodied with a dry mouthfeel'

This is a really nice sour from Hoof. I wish I would have purchased a four pack instead of a single. I think this is the best sour they have made.

 

 

 

 

While it seems like you can't really have it all, Hoof Hearted delivers much of what we want in sour ale with an abundance of lemon, milk sugar, vanilla and hops. You just can't expect to have a good hair day along with all that.

Do You Remember Your Last Good Hair Day? isn't just a rhetorical question but the name of their beer that pours a lemony blonde color with a frothy white crown. Cloudy in its appearance, the beer soon leads with a scent of citrus, cider, white wine, herb, cream and soft vanilla spice. Sweeter to start, the taste of sweet cream, vanilla and a hint of cereal hits home with flavors of meringue.

A slow fade of sweet cream and condensed milk flavors lead to a strengthening sourness that circulates around the fruits of lemon, lime, gooseberry, white grape, crabapple and passionfruit. Acutely acidic, the sour ale finds eventual dominance in flavor while the ale trends slightly bitter with grapefruit and orange peel with a fade of vanilla in the background.

Medium bodied and trending lighter and drier, the more plump flavor of heavy cream has the beer tasting and feeling fuller to start. But a finish of sweet tartness provides a refreshing, crisp and mostly clean mouthfeel with an extension of vanilla and lemon.