Two Brothers Hop Juice

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

On tap at brewpub. Sort of a one note hop flavor. Nice sweet, syrup body for a DIPA, but wish it had a little more complexity in the hop profile or malt bill.

22 oz bomber. Pours a beautiful orange color. The aroma is heavenly for all you hop heads like me, cant get enough. One finger off white head, nice lacing. Nice balance between sweet and hop flavors. When I die I have asked to be embalmed with this stuff. Awesome.

Bottle pours a nice orange/amber color. Has a nice white head. Laces the glass well as you drink it. Smell like I just walked into a forest with sappy pine trees surrounding me everywhere. Tastes like sweet caramel with a nice resiny hop aftertaste. One of my favorite IIPA’s.

Cask conditioned @ Gingerman. I’ve also had it in a Bomber. The cask conditioned poured a wonderful orange/copper color with a thick hazyness and a great head. Great aroma, wonderful palat feel, hoppy and sweet at thesame time. It is balanced and the btterness is not overwhelming.

22 oz bottle. Pours light copper with a with a 2 cm off white head. Aroma of dirty socks and dank, overwhelming. Initial flavor of sweet malt and grapefruit, followed by dry hoppiness and alcohol. Some lacing, light to medium body, short lasting aftertaste, and some noted alcohol. Drinkability is limited due to the pure craziness of this DIPA, but for the hopheads its glory.

On the beer engine at the Map Room. Poured crystal-clear medium orange with a tall, loose cap of off-white head. The aroma was about as juicy as they come.. pine resin and grapefruit came first with toasty drawn caramel, floral notes, and peppery spices behind.. very well-balanced! The same pine resin and juicy grapefruit roll over the tip of the tongue with heavy bitterness hitting toward the middle of the palate.. pine, pepper, and citrus were amplified by alcohol warmth.. succulent warm and juicy finish. Lower carbonation (from the engine) and coating on the palate.. I really dug the large, well-placed, greener bitterness. Awesome beer!

Pours dark orange with a nice creamy beige head. Great piney/citrus hop aroma, somewhat dusty though. Just like some other Two Brothers brews, the malts are just way too sweet sticky and flat, and wow the alcohol really shows through on this one. Some saltiness and some honey. Extreme bitterness that plays really awkwardly off the alcohol. Not much balance, and I know its a Double IPA, but by balance I mean the flavors should compliment each other even if one is suppose to be dominant. Soft fluffy carbonation and juicy body, but really sticky finish. The alcohol is ridiculous. I’ll take a Bear Republic Hop Rod please. 8.4.7.3.14 [Rerate FRESH 2009 bottle] Gross... had to dump the bottle... vegetables everywhere...5.3.5.3.9

Tap at the Pub. Very nice. The grapefruit and floral hops, classic american IPA, really come through in this much more than in other imperials i’ve had (like the 90 minute). Balanced with malts, complex, but very true to its IPA roots. Alcohol is hardly noticeable, dangerously drinkable.