Tired Hands Guillemot Nebula

Brewed by Tired Hands Brewing Company
Style: Saison
Ardmore, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Tulip

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Bottle at home courtesy of Armin. Big thanks for this one man!!! Pour is deep brown with a small tan head and decent lacing. Big red wine, tart cherries, light bourbon, raisins, raspberries, spice, and caramel in the aroma. Taste is very smooth, red grapes, oaky, prunes, a touch of blueberries, light spice, light rum, and caramel with a lightly tart finish. Slick mouthfeel with soft carbonation. Very tasty stuff.

Pour out of 375 mL bottle, dark brownish black pour with white/tan head, aroma brought notes of tart fruits, hints of biscuit, caramel, nice red wine, hints of oak, slight red wine, hints of sour fruits, nice sour notes, slight funk. Taste is a mix of tart fruits, cherry, hints of pitted plum, slight burning vinegar but not bad, hints of oak, finishing fairly sweet, but nice and sour and oaky. Very nice.

Bottle @ Stephen’s house, courtesy of arminjewell. Thanks! Pours a clear dark brown appearance with a light brown head. Red wine, light whiskey, tart grape, somewhat herbal, a touch funky aroma. Whiskey, dark black cherry, red grape, grainy woody, mild vinegar flavor. The barrel characteristics really dominate over the base flavor.

Pours a deep burnt umber almost black with a two finger mocha foam that sticks nicely. The nose is vinous port, sweet plum and roasty malted bourbon with chocolate traces. Palate is earthy a bit dirty even... definitely some chocolate stout like notes lingering throughout and rounding out the soft mouthfeel. Big complexity with lot of tart vinous fruit peaking through the dark roast...bit of cola on the finish, nice linger.

Bottle to snifter (shared with the Mrs.; thanks watson1977). Looks good; a semi-opaque dark brown with beige lacing. Smells good too; yeasty and spicy with red wine notes and a touch of bourbon. Tastes like it smells with a good mouthfeel. A good saison!

375ml bottle. A other yummy... Pours a dark cherry cola consistency with lesser intense edges and topped with a light beige head that slowly reduces down... Aroma of red wine and roast with a mild earthy contingent. Dark and robust but still not too heavy in the slightest bit... Flavors are more of the same with earth, red wine, and roast and mild notes of cocoa. Smooth creamy bodied and drinks lighter than its strength of 8.5 percent. Pretty nice for a dark sour.

Bottle shared by jot clockwork at Kane’s Celebration of the Stout. Poured a deep dark murky brown of medium density with a dense foamy beige head. Aroma was very nice, red wine, lots of funk, some lighter sour chocolate, horse blanket and some berries. The body was perfect,delicate feel overall with softer to average carbonation and a lingering aftertaste with a tiny bit of an acidic burn. Flavor is very much like he aroma, perhaps even s touch better. Vinous, cherry, berries, sour funkiness, light chocolate, bread and a hint of barrel. Good stuff, I’d drive and wait for this if it comes out again.

Bottle into a tasting glass. This is my first experience with Tired Hands, but I really need to take the 30 minute drive to the brewery now. The red wine flavors pull this brew together in an amazing way. My only wish is that I could have enjoyed more than four ounces of it.

375 ml bottle from jtclockwork. Thanks. Pours a dark brown color with a small tan head that slowly recedes to a film. The aroma is strong and tart with sour red fruits, red wine and a bit of vanilla. The taste is sour with red fruits, wine, sour grapes, green apple, chocolates and vanilla. The palate is silky smooth with lively carbonation. Finishes long and dry with lingering tartness. Overall: Decent sour ale, compares favorably to some of the Lost Abbey and Russian River stuff.

Bottle shared with DMac. Pours black with tan head. Nose and taste of red wine, cocoa, wild yeast, oak, berry fruits and ever so light splash of whiskey. Very delicate mouth feel, Finishes with slight acidic berry fruits.