On the third day of Beermas I went and bought for me
Three sunny toucans
Two dogs in costume
And a lone eagle flying free
I don't know if it's going to get harder every year to find birds to go with this song, but it does seem like there's enough new beers to keep things going for a while. Birds might not always be so popular though. At least this year we got a toucan, one of the sillier ones, to keep our spirits up. What about French hens you ask? Well, the toucan has a big beak and we all know what French noses are like...OK, sorry, shouldn't make those kinds of generalizations. But that's what happens when you have to find less obvious connections. It's a DDH Hazy IPA, from Medina and Speranto, with a rather tropical name: Kailua. It's the kind of beer you might drink if you want to look back on times of free travel to far-off places, or dream about that future possibility returning to us.
Well, it's not as hazy as other IPAs I've known, but it is hops scented, spicy and piny, and with a good amount of head. It starts out on the sweet side, although there's a strong undercurrent of bitter. There's the hops snap, a few tropical notes, but overall it's a light-bodied beer to go with the color. Although it does have an outdoorsy aroma, and would probably be quite refreshing after a hot afternoon of lying around in the sun, it's not so thin or uninteresting that it can't come inside for a meal and a conversation.
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