Tired Hands (December 2016)

That sucks.

In celebration of Friday and to compare to your pics I cracked open a vintage 2016 can of Lychee Milkshake.



This beer had changed since canning but is at least as good as it was on day 1. For what it's worth, the last can of this I opened (about 5 months ago) had turned grey in color but still tasted great. This one is a totally opaque pale yellow. Vanilla and the lychee are now the primary flavors but the hops are emphasizing the fruit flavors and this beer still holds up after something like 10 months.

It's too bad that this batch of Milkshakes managed to age wonderfully while all of the recent batches turn to snowglobes within 3 weeks.

At the bottom there were 3 chunks of yeast/sediment but nothing like the snowglobes, overall this is still a delicious beer.

 

It seems like the peach is the main culprit in the snow globe issue. Wonder if it is some type of reaction with the pectin that causes it....

 

What do people think of this week's releases? I love copy and paste! And that was the one I was expecting to like the least.

 

Blackberry and Double Watermelon are just as bad, and I think the latest Strawberry is too but I don't want to open my last can to check it. I've been keeping a can of each to see how they are after a relatively long time becuase these change a lot.

The latest non-snowglobe is Double Mango ,as far as I know. I don't know what causes the difference but I do think it makes a difference in flavor and the seprarating-milkshakes end up overly sweet in the first pour and strange in the snowglobe pour. For whatever reason, the non-snowglobes do seem to hold up better.

 

It would seem to me that in their rush to get beers out the door each week and deliver beer that is "hyper fresh" , Tired Hands just isn't conditioning the beers long enough before they package them. The cans are functioning as miniature bright tanks. The trub is eventually dropping out, but there is nowhere for it to go.

I homebrewed a peach pale ale this summer with peaches from our tree. I pureed and added the fruit in secondary (along with dry hops). I kegged the beer after a week or two of secondary fermentation when the fruit had appeared to have mostly settled out. But it took more than a week of refrigeration to be able to pull a clear pint of beer from the keg. The early pints looked just like the photo that @Sabtos posted of the Milkshake beer, until I cleared all the sediment.

 

Mago Tago is actually turning a good corner and barely abrasive. Not saying it is as good as the good batches they have brewed before, but is pretty tasty right now!

 

This is why you should store your Tired Hands beers upside down.

 

i shake my can up like a orange juice and crack it slow.. nobody else is doing this? i do it with all my tired hands cans.. all that good sediment is at the bottom!

 

I roll them, but yes.

 

I've heard other say this and I'm keeping my Double Peach like that, will post pictures later to see if it makes any really difference.

 

I need to turn mine upside down too....gotta do that.

I had a Double Watermelon over the weekend, still really, really, really good. Loads of sediment but not really snow globey.

 

Poured a Double Peach this weekend and the appearence made my wife beg me not to drink it. All snowglobes that settled into a 2 part/2 color separation like a black and tan.

Also have the Punge cans chilled out yet? Fresh they had a weird booziness that reminded me of St. Ides/Old English malt liquor. Hard to get through a full one.

 

Even Punge has issues?

I was thinking after the last few crazy releases this week would be easy, but I guess I'll stay away from can releases for awhile. The quality issues don't seem to be going away.

 

What quality issues have you personally experienced?

Cheers!

 

We should be set for another release of Technicolor Splendor this week or next.

 

This was taken Thursday. I took good 15-20 mins to finish this glass and by then sludge was at the bottom..
May be TH should include an instruction manual for pouring and drinking shakes along with the cans.