Main Line Brewery Among 50 Best In US, Magazine Says

MAIN LINE, PA — Breweries are popping up all over Pennsylvania and the country in a craft beer renaissance that's been booming for years. And a popular Main Line brewer is among the 50 best breweries in the country of the last 10 years, according to Paste Magazine.

Paste Magazine published its list of "The 50 Best American Breweries of the 2010s" recently.

To draft the list, the magazine looked at various facets of breweries in the nation, such as their innovative impacts, consistency, and more.

All things considered, Ardmore's Tired Hands Brewing Company made the cut.

Paste listed Tired Hands at No. 43.

Here's what the magazine says about Tired Hands:

Milkshake IPA is a beer style we’re unlikely to ever list among our favorites, but if the entire beer industry handled the style with the skill and creativity of the progenitors at Tired Hands, that’s a sentiment we’d probably reconsider. Although the Pennsylvania stalwarts have brewed a wide variety of styles (including some lovely saisons) right from the start, it’s difficult to separate them from their most famous creation, and if there’s a beer style that sums up the zeitgeist of the 2010s more than milkshake IPA, we haven’t seen it. The thought to use lactose in a style where it was practically a foreign substance was a clever one, allowing the Tired Hands brewers to boost the creamy texture and subtle sweetness of their IPAs in a way that worked beautifully with an array of fresh fruit purees. In comparison with the imitation that followed from so many other breweries, Tired Hands milkshake IPAs always seem to strike the ideal balance between fruity vivaciousness and at least a modicum of balance, avoiding the tooth-stripping sweetness that bogged down so many others in our increasingly saccharine beer world. It will never be a style for everyone, but Tired Hands has always illustrated what something like milkshake IPA looks like at its best. Sadly, they’re a brewery we’ve had a chance to sample at Paste far less than some of the others on this list, but hopefully that will one day change.

Paste says the HopHands, SaisonHands, various milkshake brews stand out among Tired Hands' offerings.

Tired Hands was the only Pennsylvania brewery to make Paste's list.

See the full list of breweries here.