Tired Hands... Why?

[RyanG1]

Tired Hands was just out in SF, doing a collaboration beer with a new spot, Cellarmaker. Interested in trying that one, when available.

 

[drgarage1]

Tired Hands was just out in SF, doing a collaboration beer with a new spot, Cellarmaker. Interested in trying that one, when available.

I saw him when he was there -- Jean has quite the mullet.

 

[ForkAndSpoonOperator]

I have yet to have a bad beer at Tired Hands. Most fall in the solid to good category, with many hitting excellent and HandFarm in my personal top 3. Food is terrific, building is great, people are all awesome, musical selections never disappoint despite what Yelp thinks.

Of course, I'm the guy who really liked Mother Animal fresh, so my opinion is probably null and void.

 

[Snarf1]

Ditto on the rahr. If tired hands was in the middle of nowhere and HF was close to a major metropolitan area, I bet this thread would be reversed.

 

[MordorMongo]

I have yet to have a bad beer at Tired Hands. Most fall in the solid to good category, with many hitting excellent and HandFarm in my personal top 3. Food is terrific, building is great, people are all awesome, musical selections never disappoint despite what Yelp thinks.

Of course, I'm the guy who really liked Mother Animal fresh, so my opinion is probably null and void.

Hayden?











Hahahaha, sorry man, that was just plain old mean! LYMI.

 

[grandmeaulnes]

Ditto on the rahr. If tired hands was in the middle of nowhere and HF was close to a major metropolitan area, I bet this thread would be reversed.

hmm no. it wouldnt. i like TH a lot but i dont think jean has made a single beer thats as good as your average HF offering.

 

[JulianB1]

hmm no. it wouldnt. i like TH a lot but i dont think jean has made a single beer thats as good as your average HF offering.

I want to say that I like several of Tired Hands' beers better than Harlan, but:

1. You said "average HF offering" and Harlan is decidedly below the middle of Shaun's beers (for me).

2. I wonder if Harlan would taste "better" if it were a brewery's flagship IPA, rather than "that other beer" being consumed at the same time as Abner, Double Citra, and Susan.

 

[lazerviking]

hmm no. it wouldnt. i like TH a lot but i dont think jean has made a single beer thats as good as your average HF offering.

I think it's very difficult to say this not trying Jean's best beers directly from the source. When TH's beers click they are tremendous and certainly rival or surpass some of HF's beers, even the above-average ones. Each of these breweries are among my very favorite, and I recognize that overall HF is probably ahead. But I wouldn't put Jean's beers too far behind.

 

[mciocco1]

I'd be hard pressed to think of any brewery that could make 169 different beers of varying styles that were all amazing. That being said, everything I've had from them (and I'm probably in the 80-100 different beers range) has been decent at worst, and mind-blowing at best (dear lord, that Romulon was obscene, and rivals if not bests any saison I've had from HF, though I haven't had a lot of the really amazing HF saisons either). I can see the carbonation thing being an issue, though it's not really for me since I'm typically imbibing right from the source (early on I had a couple that weren't great, but that was fixed pretty quickly).

They've had some fantastic IPAs that I think could rival some of the big boys, but since they rarely brew the same beer twice, they never build up the hype. This may be by design though...

 

[lazerviking]

I'd be hard pressed to think of any brewery that could make 169 different beers of varying styles that were all amazing. That being said, everything I've had from them (and I'm probably in the 80-100 different beers range) has been decent at worst, and mind-blowing at best (dear lord, that Romulon was obscene, and rivals if not bests any saison I've had from HF, though I haven't had a lot of the really amazing HF saisons either). I can see the carbonation thing being an issue, though it's not really for me since I'm typically imbibing right from the source (early on I had a couple that weren't great, but that was fixed pretty quickly).

They've had some fantastic IPAs that I think could rival some of the big boys, but since they rarely brew the same beer twice, they never build up the hype. This may be by design though...

God, I wish they would brew Romulon again. My favorite TH beer to date. And I completely agree with you about the IPAs. If they continually churned out certain of their IPAs they would be discussed among the top in the style.

 

[ForkAndSpoonOperator]

Hayden?

You've cut me to the quick, sir.

 

[Max]

God, I wish they would brew Romulon again. My favorite TH beer to date. And I completely agree with you about the IPAs. If they continually churned out certain of their IPAs they would be discussed among the top in the style.

and this really is my biggest complaint about TH: the beers i like the most don't get brewed enough.

but there are certainly many other lovely offerings from which to choose. but i miss that coffee saison. and leaflet.

 

[Dsal891]

I've only ever had hop hands (would love more if anyone wants to trade) but it is currently one of my favorite pales!

 

[JulianB1]

Another observation about Tired Hands: there are a lot of comparisons made with Hill Farmstead (and I've made at least one in this this thread myself, when it comes to mouthfeel), often for the purposes of hyping them up. But I think those comparisons may actually be doing a disservice to TH (other than for people seeking to profit off of their growlers. i.e. traders on that other site). The reason being that people end up comparing their beers to HF's where they fall short (on average), rather than comparing them to most other breweries out there where they are often considerably better. For instance, with the TH-HF connection fresh in my mind (partly due to having visited them on consecutive days), I may be more inclined to think "HopHands is good, but it's not as good as Edward" instead of something like "Damn, HopHands is better than any pale ale I can get in the Southeast!".

 

[Friend_of_the_Gueuze]

FT: candied bacon.

And bread and butter.

Who needs beer?

 

[xnicknj]

FT: candied bacon.

And bread and butter.

Who needs beer?

This is borderline possible haha.

Also, I want them to package that mustard to go although I doubt it'll happen. I despise mustard and that might be the first one I've ever enjoyed to the point where I actually look forward to that part of the sandwich.

 

[KWilk]

What's the mustard?

Not to derail, but Destihl has a smoked IPA mustard that I would bathe in if it was available to go.

 

[xnicknj]

What's the mustard?

They make it with their flagship pale ale, HopHands. It has a spicy, almost sinus-clearing heat (reminds me of wasabi) that I don't recall experiencing before.

"It gives me a whooosh"

 

[Max]

They make it with their flagship pale ale, HopHands. It has a spicy, almost sinus-clearing heat (reminds me of wasabi) that I don't recall experiencing before.

"It gives me a whooosh"

agreed on the mustard... I'm also not a mustard guy and I usually end up using both mine and my wife's portions. Although the last couple times I've had it, it seems a little more toned down than in the past.