Helping Hands
Grain Bin Brewing Company

A- This pours a very nice unfiltered golden color with a few yeast particles floating about . The head is white in color, soapy in appearance and retains quite well, settling to a thick, dense ring around the glass! Carbonation looks to have a few columns of fizz rising up through the murkiness and the lacing is a modest medium look, with some small snow capped ridges sticking to the inside rim of the glass!

S- Lots of citrus hoppy notes to smell right away, but these do settle down with some time and air.....grainy malt presence, alongside dry grassy qualities, sweet yeast and/or bread and even some vanilla robustness in the background! Overall I like the balanced nature between hop bitterness and rounded malt/richness, making me think this will be a tasty treat!

T- This has a really nice blend from start to finish between malt presence and bittering hops....it is very clean overall! The malt is a very dry, and almost with a slightly spicy character, and then a creamy yeast that is also dry, bread like and doughy with sweet citrus hints.....it really has a dry tea biscuit quality about it....the finish comes fast, with dry hops and it also leaves the palate rather quickly, leaving a cleansing flavor that lingers on the palate.

M/O- The body is medium and the carbonation is fairly plentiful, yet smooth and slowly degrades upon hitting the palate. This really has its' own flavor and character and I would recommend this ale with the 'centuries old' beer yeast that few have heard of.....I can see ale drinkers in centuries' past ordering up a beer on a warm Summers' day asking and receiving something like this. A Kings' court full of beer!