Hemptails Hemp'd
Genesee Brewing Co.

 

 

It looks like I just poured a ginger ale. The nose gives some promise, with a faint aroma of hops, hemp and alcohol. It tastes like a ginger ale, a disgustingly sweet one. None, or insignificant hop nor hemp tastes the nose anticipated to come. It goes down like a ginger ale, a disgustingly sweet one. I've enjoyed a couple of hemp infused beers before, so I had hope. This disproves the first beer of the day tasting the best. This was a horrible experience.

 

I love good beer, this is not beer, it is a malt liquor. It has a nice hemp smell, but it tastes like malt liquor. It is way to sweet, but if you like malt liquor you might like this. My early 20s kids like it a lot, but they don’t like beer, so if you are on beer advocate I would say don’t bother.

smelt bad and tasted worse....

Tasted like aged apple juice, was that beer? The bad smell was a precursor to the bad taste. I poured it out after a sip, bummer. The hemp on the label was intriguing enough for me to buy one, I love hemp seeds but bad apple juice is what I got.

 

 

Hemp'd starts out with a pleasant aroma. A sip in and you definitely taste the mellow hemp flavor. It's almost to the point of a perfect drop from a very hemp flavor to a sweetness. I have tried a lot of different hemp alcoholic beverages and this is by far my favorite. If you like the hemp flavor you will like it, if you don't, I'm not sure why you're buying it anyways

 

They got the hemp smell down, but after that it’s shaky at best. Has a carbonated feel, slightly bitter and sweet. Little of that cheap booze taste that all these malt beverages have. It’s best from the can, or maybe left on the shelf. Either way it’s hemp so worth a try as they’re daring to be different.

HempTails, Woohoo! This “malt beverage” is the new Four Loco. Tastes like a carbonated Arizona Iced Tea, except it’s 8 percent! Super sugary, syrupy, and goes down like a wine spritzer. When you crack the can it smells like fresh bud on the stalk. It’s easy to drink, but I wouldn’t recommend drinking it. Drank it out of a Mario glass, just kidding, that’s stupid!

It pours brilliant gold with a fizzy white cap that quickly disappears. It smells a little skunky, sugary and dank with a hint of citrus and light malt. It is way too sweet which is probably necessary to cover up some of the hemp seed flavors to make them taste a little like berry and to hide some of the skunkiness and it relatively high abv. This is clearly geared to the underage high school crowd who will find the word hemp and the 8% abv appealing.

 

It is sickly sweet. I added water. the taste was fine after that but the SMELL. Smells like horrendous skunk weed. I tried pinching my nose, not enough. I drank 1/3 of a can. Now I have skunk weed burps. NOPE NOPE NOPE.

L: it looks like ginger ale in every conceivable way.
S: once cracked, it smells like someone’s breakin’ up some kind bud for a righteous doobie. And drinking a Canada Dry.
T: the first notes are “hemp” and honey. Then comes aluminum, then comes unpleasant skunkiness if you’re looking for it.
F: It is very metallic, to my taste anyway. It’s definitely malt liquor-y, and not in the nostalgic way. It literally feels like spiked ginger ale with a touch of battery acid in the mouth. I kinda like it.
O: do you like weed? Do you like getting drunk off of two beers? Boy do i have a “beer” for you! Slide on down to the Getty at the bottom of the hill and get two of these bad boys for $5. You definitely wouldn’t pass a breathilizer after chugging em in between hits from da bawwwwng at your local boat lunch. I promise.

 

Welcome to New Oddball Beer Sunday (Week 735)! I keep adding marginally-related beers, but they all fall under the "American Malt Liquor" catch-all category. I want to spend the day exploring & catching up on some of these overlooked gems.

From the CAN: "Made with real hemp seeds"; "Real Hemp Seeds + Natural Hemp Flavors"; "Rock Wall Brewing Company Rochester, NY"; "www.drinkhemptails.com".

I was SO curious to Crack! open the vent on this one, but when I did so, it was as if a skunk had slunk in & begun spraying musk everywhere! OMFG! This was clearly going to be an adventure. I CANtinued with a slow, gentle Glug since I was using a vintage Don Ho tumbler (!) & this was a big CAN. It briefly came up with a finger of fizzy, foamy, bone-white head that mistook itself for pop & fizzed its way out of existence. Nose remained amusingly skunky. Man, with today's high-end hydro, this kind of 70's-era frop would be laughed outta the room! Color was a champagne-like Straw-Yellow (SRM = > 2, < 4) with NE-quality clarity. Mouthfeel was thin & watery. The taste had "hemp" qualities, but at the same time, it was really sugary & sweet. Hemp Kool-Ade? Hmm. It was an interesting, oddball drink, but one was more than enough with all of the sugariness. The hemp smell & taste was pervasive throughout, but it was more like a novelty than an actual beer. Finish was too sweet for my taste, but still in keeping with the style. Man, I really got this one in my sinuses to the point that each inhalation made me think that I was back in my friend's bedroom with the door locked & a bhong being passed around! This was not quality stuff, but it was interesting. YMMV.