Two Brothers Hop Juice

Brewed by Two Brothers Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Warrenville, Illinois USA

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Pours a dark amber with a medium lived beige head. Smell is fruity and citrusy and piney. Nice nose. Taste is very balanced. Fruity and moderately hopped with a nice smooth maltiness and some tea and gummy like character to the hops. Very creamy mouthfeel. Light carbonation. Very easy drinking with perhaps a touch of alchol showing. Overall, very nice.

On cask at Barcade. I was sitting right next to the cask tap and could smell this as the bartender was pumping it out, wow. For better or worse, I caught the last glass in the keg. The glass was cloudy and full of sediment, like a light colored mud. Obviously this one had huge hops that left it a touch unbalanced. Slightly sweet, with a big bitter finish.

Bottle from hopdog. Thanks! Exploded out of the bottle and out of the glass when it was poured. Dull floral and herbal hop aroma. More sweet/toasty/maybe roasty?, malt and honey than anything. Over carbonated, flat hops, too much malt. Not my cup of tea. I would like to try again because it may have been a bad bottle.

Cask at Barcade, Brooklyn, New York. This was the only cask conditioned beer available and it was the best beer I had that night. It’s hazy, rich, chewy, with a very sweet body and a long, lingering, complex hop bitterness. I’ve since bought a "growler" bottle as a souvenir.

Cask at Barcade: Deep copper pour with a small but strong off-white head. Sweet & sticky hop aroma, honeyish, with only mild tropical fruit notes (honey soaked mangoes). Sticky sweet body with a honey-sweet flavor, which is almost reminiscent of almond paste. Some hop character is evident, but it’s too sweet to be a qunching/quaffable IIPA; in my humble opinion.

cask at MAnhattan Cask Ale Festival. Tried it twice, immediately after I’d tapped it and again the next day. Obviously hazy at the first sample, but cleared by the second. Both times absolutely superb piney aroma, followed by pine & citrus hop flavours, that amazingly manage to hide the alcohol burn, no mean feat at this strength. A deliciously dry, long lasting aftertaste nicely finishes off this impressive offering. Were it not for all the other new beers, could all too easily have had a session on this

Bomber. Clear copper with a frothy off-white head, leaving spotty lacing. Nice 2IPA tropical fruit hop aromas-pineapple, mango, passionfruit, etc. Sharp piney hop flavors on the initial sip, but mellowing to more of a citrusy hop character which infuses a clean caramel malt body. Consistent resiny bitterness underneath. Well executed 2IPA.

Your typical IIPA, although this one has a nice hop flavor to it. It’s very citrusy, though the palate is a bit too harsh. This beer would be great if more of the IBU’s came from flavor and aroma hop additions. Other than that, it ain’t to shabby.