Tired Spirits
Woodfour Brewing Company

a really neat little bottle of beer here, incredibly gin forward, really distinctive and good, i like woodfour beers, especially in these more ambitious styles, and this is a great one, deserving of more attention. they use gin and sloe gin barrels, and i get the brisk almost menthol herbal character of the juniper right away, as well as a medicinal berry element from the sloe as well, very botanical and bitter to all my senses, oddly fresh for how woody and mature it is, piquant for sure, citrusy, tangy, oaken, and rusty orange and very clear in color with a fizzy white head from the bottle. its got very little sweetness, but enough grain character and texture for the gin to really embed itself, things like spruce, weed, rosemary, and rubbing alcohol come out in this, some sweet orange peel maybe, lots of minerals, clean new oak, and a soft berry and even port wine complexion, sour but insanely clean, and very effervescent in terms of carbonation. impressively flavorful, totally gin driven but with some saison yeast esters in the mix too, real well refined, really unconventional, great use of the barrels, and if you like gin as much as my wife and i, youll love this beer! a nice treat for quarantine! these guys always impress.