Gettin' Tiki With It Piña Colada Wheat Nitro
Left Hand Brewing Company

 

Loved it

This one pours a creamy looking hazy orange color, with a small foamy head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like fairly artificial pineapple and suntan lotion like coconut.

This sort of thing does not seem to work on nitro, unfortunately. It feels really artificial tasting, and just kind of flat. The nitro creaminess just does not translate well to a fruited wheat beer, in my opinion.

This is thin, flat, and not creamy enough, it's not all that drinkable.

Not every beer out there needs to get the nitro treatment. I know it's Left Hand's shtick, but let's relax a little bit here.

Don't get the low ratings it's exactly as described coconut water and pineapple sweetness not very oily but the whole thing comes off massively sweet and wheat balance the massive 7.5% ABV. Not sure I would drink more than one a sitting but it was a great experimental beer. Don't buy if you don't like Pina Colada or sweet beers!

 

 

 

Pours a frothy gold, nice head retention & lacing.

S: Faint bready notes, grassiness

T: Some dryness up front. Dryness with the pina colada flavors, plus a little grassy hop. Finishes with pineapple sweetness.

MF: Medium body, creamy.

Drinkable, not something I would do a repeat buy on

 

 

 

 

Poured from a nitro can into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a beautiful light golden color with a cascade of light yellow tinted nitro bubbles streaming up the the brew. Over tim ethe nitro bubbles settle on the top of the berr, leaving a thick foam of white foam on the surface of the beer nad revealing a lightly hazed orange-yellow colored beer. Over time the thick head of foam fades, leaving a nice level of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is rather strong of a pineapple and coconut aroma mixed with a decent showing of wheat. At the same time there is a good level of a milky cream smell as well as some light citrus sweetness of tangerine and orange.
Taste – The taste begins with a rather sweet pineapple and coconut taste that is backed by a wheat bread base flavor. There are some tropical fruit tastes up front as well, with flavors of tangerine and banana being the predominate. The fruit tastes all fade a tad as the taste advances, but are replaced by some caramel and toffee sweetness. At the same time the crème/milk taste develops on the tongue. At the same time flavors of some mustiness and a bit of hay develop at the end, leaving one with a somewhat odd wheat fruited wheat bread taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – Being a nitro pour, body of the brew is creamy and smooth. For the flavors, not sure nitro pours are the best as I think a prickly carbonation would have been more fitting for the flavor profile.
Overall – Interesting brew to say the least. Not really my style, but still fun to try.

Pours a hazy pale yellow. Creamy foam. Light sweet aroma. Better than I expected. Light and creamy. Light pineapple and coconut flavors. Smooth finish. Very drinkable.

light beer not much taste

Best by 9/20/21

This one definitely piqued my interest when I saw it on the shelves. An interesting concept to integrate these new-ish fruit smoothie beers into a wheat ale, a nitro one at that. Then again, nitro is kinda Left Hand's thing so I suppose this is natural for them to do. Let's see what it's all about

Pours a cloudy yellow gold with a constant finger of bone white head that leaves decent lacing

The nose on this one is pretty subtle, I was expecting more for the abv but it's nice regardless. I'm picking up on aromas of coconut cream, sweet pineapple, wheat bread, white pepper, and a touch of grassy hops

Where this was subtle in aroma, it's straight up bland in taste, really killing the fun vibe it had going for it. On the front end of the sip I'm tasting light wheat, coconut milk, and vanilla. The swallow brings notes of pineapple puree, coconut milk, and a touch of general citrus

A medium body and almost no carbonation results in a smooth and creamy beer, which would be nice if it had anything in terms of taste. Finishes sweet and slick

Yeah, this one is a swing and a miss. I guess my curiosity just got the best of me

Good flavor here I just dont think nitros are for me. It did have a really balanced and not overpowering pina colada flavor so I can definitely say it's good beer , the razor thin mouthfeel from the nitro just isn't for me, I have to work my way and try others still but yeah.

Today marks my 24th birthday. I have a bad habit of seeing a new beer I want and buying it before I finish what I have in the fridge. So today’s goal is to finish all the beers that I just have one left of.

Starting off the day with this Nitro Stout as a shower beer - so my looks rating is based off of the beautiful can, but I do remember it pouring beautifully as well.

I normally would never drink a stout as a morning shower beer, but Gettin’ Tiki With It is sweet and fruity enough to be a breakfast smoothie.

Like most nitros, it is very smooth. The pineapple/coconut-forward flavor gives this beer major summer vibes - which are needed since it’s currently winter in Minnesota.

Another Left Hand nitro, another good one to write about...

It really never get's old. Cracking open the can, hearing the hiss, hard pouring the beer with a huge smile on my face. It. Just. Doesn't. And it didn't in this case. It's a solid enough brew - I think I can summarize by saying that most of the characteristics are muted - nothing over the top, or two bitter, or two sweet, just muted, light if you prefer.