Tired Hands Brewing Company |
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Ardmore, PA. This brewery is in the heart of the Main Line, right off the main road. They actually have 3 separate locations all right near each other in Ardmore, one of which is just for merch and to-go. I went to the Fermentaria, which opens for lunch. The food menu looked quite good, but I didn't eat. They have 12-15 beers on tap (small pours available), and a bunch of bottle pours as well. The beers are a range of styles, with a focus on IPA's - specifically milkshake IPA's, but they also have others - and saisons. They also sell cans and bottles to go - they had 6 can and 3 bottle options when I was there.
Little Log Cabin Always Better Here
Imperial Milkshake IPA - 11.5% ABV Pete Scary dangerous amount of alcohol in this one based on the flavor. Creamy with tons of mango and vanilla. Basically a mango milkshake that happens to be 11.5% alcohol. Byeeeeeee. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Little Log Cabin I Love You
Imperial New England IPA - 8% ABV Pete This beer smells super dank. Unfortunately, the flavor is a little flat. What is there is definitely the dankness, but it's just not enough to blow you away, or to justify 8% ABV. Ratings: Pete - 4 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Alien Church
New England IPA - 7% ABV Pete Really damn good beer. Tons of varieties of citrus up front with a dry, slightly dank finish. This is my style. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Antenna
Saison - 4.8% ABV Pete Awesome beer. Lemony with some funk. It's hard to put this beer into a specific style, but it's flavor puts it somewhere between summer wheat, Belgian wit, and saison. I like all those things, and they go well together. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Curvature of Certainty
Imperial Milkshake IPA - 8% ABV Pete This has a lot going on. Sweet potato, rice, lactose, raspberry, vanilla, and hops in it - could go pretty much anywhere. It's definitely different. The vanilla and raspberry come through the most, with some earthy hops on top of it. It's a combo that doesn't sound like it would work, but it did for me. Some of my friends did not share my opinion, but I guess they can't handle this much weird. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands DDH Alien Church: Mosaic & Motueka
New England IPA - 7% ABV Pete Smells of creamy citrus. The flavor doesn't quite follow, as it's more dank with a tiny hint of citrus in the background. You get a bit of different flavor in each sip - really awesome beer. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands DDH Grassman: Citra & Nelson
Imperial New England IPA - 8.7% ABV Pete Damn good. Lemony and grassy going down with creaminess coming in after and a dry finish that keeps you coming back for more. Didn't get much sweetness from the honey, but it was nicely balanced, so it's probably like when you add just enough salt to make something taste great without being salty. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands DDH Punge: Nelson + Motueka
Imperial New England IPA - 8.3% ABV Pete Super dank and super delicious. There's some citrus in there, but this is definitely for the dank lovers. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Double Wish Fulfillment
Imperial New England IPA - 8% ABV Pete Creamy, earthy, and dank. Quite good. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Eviscerated Pathway of Beauty
Imperial New England IPA - 8.6% ABV Pete Pictured front left. Excellent. Quite creamy, and with more carbonation than most. That sounds weird, but it didn't take anything away from this. Ripe melon flavors. Goes down dangerously easy. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Explicate Order
Imperial New England IPA - 8.4% ABV Pete Collaboration with Crooked Stave. Super creamy yet pretty easy to drink. It's quite dank, with even a little bit of funk to it. I like that. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Frequency Illusion: Chardonnay
Saison - 7.8% ABV Pete This is a dry beer with a little oaky flavor. I was hoping it'd be funkier like others of this series, but even with the yeast at the bottom (there wasn't all that much of it), it was fairly mild. Ratings: Pete - 4 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Frequency Illusion: Grenache
Saison - 7.8% ABV Pete It was really hard to figure out what the hell I was about to drink when I was looking at this bottle. And drinking it didn't exactly clear things up. It's sour first, then funky, then fruity sweet. The best comparison would be a funky fruited sour. Whatever it is, it's very worth drinking. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Frequency Illusion: Viognier
Saison - 7.8% ABV Pete A little fruity and pretty oaky. Real funky at the end when you add the yeast from the bottom of the bottle. It's like 2 entirely different beers with and without the yeast. Both are great. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Golden Void
Imperial White Stout - 11% ABV Pete I have two good things to say about this beer. First, you can taste all the things that the brewery described this beer tasting like. Second, I managed to drink the entire thing without dumping it out. Unfortunately, that's as far as I can go. Banana bread, chai tea, and 'well-intentioned morning smoothie' are definitely not flavors I would ever recommend mixing, and certainly not at 11% alcohol. This is gross. Ratings: Pete - 2 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Grassman
Imperial New England IPA - 8.7% ABV Pete Incredible beer. A little sweet from the honey, but not too much. Some citrus flavors in there on top of it with some dankness from the Nelson, rounded out with a pretty creamy texture. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Helles Other People
Helles Lager - 5.3% ABV Pete Incredible name. The beer is as you'd expect. Not a ton of flavor. Super drinkable. Ratings: Pete - 4 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Honey, I Love You
Saison - 5.8% ABV Pete This is a great beer that could double as something you'd have a sick person drink. The honey, high carbonation level, and zestiness could really take the edge off a headache, whether it's from a cold or a hangover. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands HopHands
Pale Ale - 5.5% ABV Pete Super crisp and lemony. Really good and extremely drinkable. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands In the Dead of Night
Imperial IPA - 8% ABV Pete Pretty light body with a tiny bit of creaminess. Flavor is pretty lemony and finishes dry. Quite good. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Invasive 4: Hydrilla
IPA - 8.8% ABV Pete Outstanding IPA. Extremely citrusy with a little bit of creaminess, along with a pretty bitter finish to balance it out. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands IOUNNO4
Pastry Stout - 12% ABV Pete Incredible stout. I wouldn't say it quite tastes like PB&J like it claims, but it is vaguely nutty and fruity at the same time, so it makes sense. I was shocked to hear this was 12% - it does not taste it at all. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Milkshake IPA: Apple Cider Donut
Milkshake IPA - 7.2% ABV Pete Super creamy texture, as you'd expect from the style. The flavor is definitely cider - it almost comes off with an apple cider vinegar-like flavor that balances the creaminess. It sounds weird, but it's quite good, and it grows on you as you drink it. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Milkshake IPA: Cranberry Tart
Milkshake IPA - 7.2% ABV Pete Tastes like a cranberry vanilla milkshake - even has the creamy thickness of it. If you like that, you'll like this. I was with 3 other people, and everyone loved this. That's impressive given divisiveness about this style. It's the red beers in the picture. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Milkshake IPA: Double Key Lime Pie
Imperial Milkshake IPA - 9% ABV Pete Collaboration with Omnipollo. Unique. Lots of lime and lots of vanilla. It has a bitterness to the end like lime pith. Definitely need to like lime to like this, and I do. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Milkshake IPA: Double Passionfruit Kalamansi Jasmine Honey
Imperial Milkshake IPA - 9% ABV Pete Well described. It tastes like a passion fruit/honey milkshake. If that sounds good to you, get this. I was skeptical, but this was delicious. Usually this much alcohol in an IPA is too sweet, but the milkshake style can stand up to that much sweetness (I think). Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Milkshake IPA: Orange Creamsicle
Milkshake IPA - 7.2% ABV Pete They nailed this with the name. Smells and tastes like an orange creamsicle. Hard to put it any better than that. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Milkshake IPA: Peach Mango Chamomile
Milkshake IPA - 7.2% ABV Pete This smells strongly of peach and mango. The flavor is much more tea-forward, with some vanilla and the fruits coming through in the aftertaste. It is extremely unique, and I like it a lot, but I could see plenty of people not liking it. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Milkshake IPA: Strawberry
Milkshake IPA - 7% ABV Pete Collaboration with Omnipollo. This really does just taste like a strawberry milkshake. It's incredible. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Milkshake IPA: TDH Rikawa & Motueka
Milkshake IPA - 7.3% ABV Pete Much different from the rest of the milkshake line. It definitely has the creaminess, but the vanilla is pretty subtle, and without any fruit, it's more of a NEIPA than anything else. An incredible NEIPA. A little dank/earthy and a little citrusy, and the vanilla somehow works. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Milkstave IPA: Açai Bowl
Sour Milkshake IPA - 7.2% ABV Pete This is incredible and extremely unique. Mild-medium sourness, lots of fruit flavor, and some funk and oak in there too. As good as it gets. Ratings: Pete - 7 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Milkstave IPA: Strawberry
Sour IPA - 7.7% ABV Pete I love this beer. It's fruity, creamy, funky, and intensely oaky. It's like a NEIPA mixed with a fine wine in the best possible way. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Ourison
Saison - 4.8% ABV Pete A little funk, a little earthy spiciness, and a load of carbonation make this a flavorful beer that keeps you coming back for more. Super easy to drink. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands SaisonHands
Saison - 4.8% ABV Pete Excellent saison. There is some added lemon flavor from what you expect from the style, but the prevailing flavor is a zesty spice you expect, and the flavor level is very high in this one. Ratings: Pete - 6 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands St. Oner's Joint Community 2
IPA - 7.1% ABV Pete This beer tastes basically like a basil-y saison. It's kind of odd, but not bad. It is supposed to be a blueberry basil IPA, but it certainly didn't taste that way to me. Interesting beer, but the name is much better than the beer. Ratings: Pete - 4 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Sticky Sphere (Double)
Imperial IPA - 8.3% ABV Pete Super citrusy IPA that smells absolutely amazing. The only issue is the aftertaste is a little bubble gum-y, which is a bit odd. Still, awesome beer. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Tongue Extinguisher
Imperial IPA - 8.4% ABV Pete Damn good IPA. Some citrus and a good amount of dankness to it. There's also a good amount of bitterness, which is balanced nicely if you have it with food. Definitely recommend this with a meal. Ratings: Pete - 5 Shyoh's |
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Tired Hands Trendler Alt
Altbier - 5.5% ABV Pete Really good alt. Malty, smooth, and flavorful. This just isn't my style. Ratings: Pete - 4 Shyoh's |
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