Two Brothers Hop Juice

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

Bottle from Capone’s. Dark copper pour with 1-finger, creamy, off-white head. Aroma of deep resiny West Coast wet hops, some chardonnay, and caramel malt, plus tropical citrus. Tastes very piney hoppy, on the dry side, with a firm caramel malt base. The palate is fairly sticky, somewhat dense, and complex. This one gets a bit too sticky and a tad hot for me at the finish, otherwise it would be rated even higher. Still, get ya some of this while you can, or I’m gonna beat you to it!

Draft at KClingers. Dark and reflective orange, very still, the foamy head disappated after the first sip. Slightly hop-oily aroma, somewhat more evident in the palate. Somewhat citrusy, slightly astringent, strongly flavored ... reminds me of eating frozen orange juice concentrate with a spoon. (#2714, 2/18/2007)

Slighty darker amber pour with a large head, average at best lacing and retention. Aroma is resiny with grapefruit, pine, carmamel, lesser fruity notes. Flavor brings this, medium bodied with a bittersweet finish. Decent but nothing special. Not my style.

Found at a beer shop out in PA on my recent visit. Hazy dark orange body with a one- two finger fluffy white head. Aroma is of citrus hops. Taste is up front unapologetically hoppy, mostly citrus. Slight caramel/sweet malt flavors going on in the background, but the hops prevail, as they should in a double IPA of 100 IBU’s.

A wonderful hop bomb. Huge aroma of grapefruit and pine. Quite4 drinkable for a IIPA. Not quite as complex as Dreadnaught, but this is some very good stuff.

22 oz bottle. First, pour this one carefully, because there may very well be sediment in the bottom of the bottle, there was in mine. Second, it doesn’t have nearly as much overwhelming hop taste as, say, Ruination IPA, but still a very fine IPA just the same. Kind of an orangey-amber, ample off-white head, a little more citrusy than piney, plenty of malt backbone, and boy is it STRONG. I can’t imagine anyone wanting more than 22 oz of this stuff.

Pours a hazy dark amber - not quite brown, and topped by an inch of fluffy off-white foam. Good head retention and lacing. Has pine hops and thick sweet malt in the aroma. Bitter hops up front and lots of ’em. Mainly resinous green pine, some bitter juicy grapefruit in there as well. Strong caramel and toffee malt backbone. A big strong beer. Between medium and full body, mellow carbonation.

Clear, deep orange with a medium head. Good lacing. Strong aroma of grapefruit and resin. A little sweet caramel and earth. Very bitter taste, especially in the finish. Extra sweet caramel doesn’t come close to balance. But it does make it drinkable. Medium bodied. Oily texture. Good, but not much more than that.