Good Humans Dry Hopped Double Brown Ale

Good Humans Dry Hopped Double Brown Ale
Short's Brewing Company
Elk Rapids, Michigan


Being that it's the witching season it stands to reason that Short's would conjure up something in the Jolly Pumpkin vein and produce a sour mash brown ale deserving of my pumpkinheaded praise. Some call it a floral sweetness, and I suppose that it is, but to me the sourness of this beer is born more of a careful amalgamation of a mildly prickly hop twanger and candy-coated yeasties than piney sugars.

Or basically a La Roja with a caramel syrup heart pumping wheat, malt and the goodness embedded within all homogenous sapiens but often let dangling in latency. While I won't claim Short's is the heir apparent to J. Pumpkin seeing as they have Dark Horse Brewery to catapult first they are the most affordable upper tier brewer in Michigan. Not only that but they don't settle with their successful standard selections and keep adding new fare to their roster. They deserve something for that alone. Since my word isn't worth squat I'll keep partaking of their selections as recompense.