Two Brothers Domaine DuPage

Brewed by Two Brothers Brewing Company
Style: Bière de Garde
Warrenville, Illinois USA

Rust colored beer,with a dense,medium sized,head. Constant,bubbles rising to the top. Aroma is lightly sweet,lightly herbal. Mouthfeel is soft,not as much carbonation as it looked like. Sweet,toasted,malts lead to a herbal,hop finish.The toastiness seems to linger in the finish as well.Extremely tasty beer..6$ a sixpack 8/22/09: Fresh batch...Very enticing aroma. Big sweetness and big fruit from the malt,little spice from yeast with a great hoppy finish. Easy to drink but also very enjoyable and well done. Doesn’t match some of the better european samples,but does hold it’s own,IMO>

Beautiful light golden coppery orange color, slightly opaque with little yeasties floating around, thin off-whitish cream colored head that fades to a thin ring and minimal spotty lace. Smells like an open field of grains with some nice little malty sweetness, dry, subtle, thin caramel notes behind. Taste is mild, pleasing, and subtle, lightly toasty with lightly dry biscuity tone and buttery sweetness, nice little grab of breadish yeast thats quite favorable on the palette. A mild drying woody hop finishes off this subtle masterpiece with enticing notes of grains and rice. Feel is medium bodied with a favorable little creamy start, adds soft thin grainyness and the finish is lightly crisp with a nice fluffy drying that fades well. A pleasant subtle beer with lots of thin layers and complexity. A good drinker and quite enjoyable, a great session beer.

It reminds me of a dubbel, in a way. In the way it is spicy but sweet and malty and not overly hopped and in the way it is slightly sour like some dubbels smell in the end of the glass. I have just come in from pitching the hey and it is a crisp autumn day and I must say to my French housewife Leave me alone to my beer and later we will make love but for now there is only a bierde de garde.

Tremendously hazy; medium carrot orange. Radiant. Nice finger of flat head. The haze is great. Some biscuity malt. A little farmhouse spice. Mild flowery, perfumey hops. Very fragrant. Sweet caramel initially, very mild and very nice. Second hit of a Belgian, champagne-like spice. As it warms, that toasted caramel comes back. Really great how it evolves. Bubbly, fizzy, effervescent. Appropriate for style. Thick as well. Two thirds caramel, one third champagne. Impressive as hell.

I'm a hophead by nature and tried this beer as I like their other brews. I just absolutely enjoy this beer. Semi-sweet caramel flavor and a light hop finish. Medium amber color and light head at the pour. This one just goes down damn easy.

Unfiltered light bronze. Attractive creamy dirty white foam. Earthy hop aroma. Stylistic nuttiness (hazelnut), coconut, heavily creamed coffee, metallic shade, toasted pumkin seed, barnyard, must, lightly vinous, toffee, leather, and light tropical fruit and cinnamon overtones. Tight, velvety carbonation. Firm, toffeeish palate. Light acidic front, followed by a leafy hop edge, toffee, and turning to a huge gooey, sweet caramel malt, twangy hop smack. Delicious nutty malt backdrop sticks around for a while, as does a hint of bandage. The caramel-coated malt flavors and refined balance are exquisite. This rivals any in its class.

Light amber color,small head that faded very fast.mild lacing left behind.Mild malt aroma with hints of caramel,fruit.The taste was much better then i expected malty with a fruity mild raisin tone,Mildly sweet caramel,slight taste of hops.The after taste is mildly bitter with a slight fruity side and mild hops,with a good,smooth feel to it.I'm not real familiar with this style but i do know what i like and this is a fine brew IMO.

12oz bottle obtained as an extra in a trade. Pour is a deep melon/amber that looks very pretty in a Corsendonk tulip. The head is a fat ring of white cream with wisps crossing the surface. The aroma is spicy and malty - something must be wrong with my nose but I’m picking up peanut butter! Maybe it is the caramel and toasty character I also smell. Oh this IS interesting. The flavor starts off spicy as I would expect from the style, but then I’m hit with this very full caramel/toast combination that is really very special. The body is just right and the palate is full and clean. I’m really very surprised and impressed.