Hot Loins 2018
Short's Brewing Company in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer Rotating Out of Production|
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6.98
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Hot Loins is an Experimental Aphrodisiac Ale brewed with goji berries, honey, dark sweet cherries, and In the Mood Tea from Light of Day Organics. Deep pink in color, this romance inspiring beer carries aromas of cinnamon, berry, and roses. Medium-bodied, this beer leads with subtle flavors of spicy cinnamon before transforming into a blend of berries and herbal tea qualities. Hot Loins finishes dry with a lingering floral flavor.
Hot Loins is a series of beers started in 2016 by Joe Short. Each year the style and aphrodisiacs in the beer have changed, but they have always inspired romance.
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superspak (10160) reviewed Hot Loins 2018 from Short's Brewing Company 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, bottled on 2/2/2018. Pours slightly hazy reddish/pinkish orange color with a 1 finger fairly dense and rocky light pink head with good retention, that reduces to a thin cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas big tart/tangy cherries, raspberry, cranberry, fruit skin, cinnamon, cardamom, peppercorn, clove, rose, anise, nutmeg, black tea, honey, caramel, brown sugar, toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruit, tea, spices, honey, and dark/bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of lightly tart/tangy cherries, raspberry, cranberry, fruit skin, cinnamon, cardamom, peppercorn, clove, rose, anise, nutmeg, black tea, honey, caramel, brown sugar, toasted bread, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/floral/grassy bitterness and peppery spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of cherries, raspberry, cranberry, fruit skin, cinnamon, cardamom, peppercorn, clove, rose, anise, nutmeg, black tea, honey, caramel, brown sugar, toasted bread, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness for a good bit. Nice complexity, robustness, and balance of fruit, tea, spices, honey, and dark/bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitter/spiciness balance and light fruit tartness balance; with zero astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitter/spiciness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy/sticky, and lightly tangy/acidic balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol for 6.9%. Overall this is a very good fruit/spiced beer. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of fruit, tea, spices, honey, and dark/bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mellowly bitter/spicy/drying finish. Would have liked it more if the big Cherry/Goji berry presence of the aromas carried through to the flavors, but it's very well balanced in taste. A very enjoyable, unique, and well made experimental beer as expected otherwise.