Two Brothers Hop Juice

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

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.

A: Pours a gorgeous coppery reddish brown with ample 2 finger head and lots of lacing, before I’ve even taken a sip. Just by looking at this beer (and reading the label which indicates 100.1 IBUs), you know it’s going to be a hoppy/malted monster. S: For a beer that clearly has a lot of hops and malts, there isn’t much smell at all beyond a faint sweet scent, probably from the hops. T: No doubt, this baby is a hophead’s dream. Slight grapefruit & pine flavors dominate the initial tastes and then gradual sweetness from the malt gives way to a wonderful, lingering finish before drying up and begging you to take that next sip (gulp). Not as sweet as some DIPAs, not as overly hopped as others, Two Brothers has created a strong balance here. Delicious. M: Great mouthfeel to this one, the beer deliciously coats the tongue with loads of well, juices from the NW hops. Leaves a slight oily, slick residue with each sip, I find myself smacking my lips with each mouthful. D: Exceptional. The beer is not heavy at all, especially given the almost barbaric 9.9% ABV, lol. A couple of these bombers and you’d be dancing the Sly & the Family Stone jig, if you get me. I loved this beer, too bad it’s so limited. As the label says, "...get it now, ’cause when it’s gone, it’s gone. Boo hoo."

pours a copper color with a one finger off white, light tannish head. aroma is of, (a little sweet malt, mango, and alcohol), but some nice piney hops. has a medium body with descent lacing but the head does not last to long. flavor is grain, pine hops, and a little mango. there is a lot of grain and hops in this one, but the alcohol is well hidden. definetly needs a little bit more malt, but overall not bad! aftertaste is nice piney, dry hops and has some nice carbonation as well. i also noticed a little sediment in my second glass. this is a powerfull and very different 2ipa but it’s pretty good!

Small tan head, fair retention with some tiny spotty laceing. Seriously hazy orange glow. Nose of citrus, touch of pine, raw hoppiness and mildly sweet malts. Body is med/full, chewy. Big hops, big malts, pine and citrus. Dry caramelly malts are pretty big. Lightly earthy with notes of tea bag flavor. 9.9% ABV?! Finish is dry, a touch woody with a slammin bite!

Reviews of this seem to be all over the board as far as the characteristics this beer presents. Appearance was copper or maybe an orangey amber, small thick, off-white head that disappeared quickly but left some lacing on the glass. Maybe something is wrong with my nose, or maybe with the beer? I detected only a faint aroma of alcohol, and maybe a bit of hops and pine. Definitely a very thin, watery feel, not at all like the syrupy feel someone else mentioned. Nice bitter hops finish, but not as great as I was expecting. Not as "extreme" as the label would suggest (I seriously wondered if my bottle was mislabeled or something), but surely worth a try for any hophead.

22 oz bottle. Rich golden color with a resin pine character throughout till the lingering finish. The last 1/5 of my bottle contained lots of sediment from big chinks to fine particles. Some but not a lot of alcohol detected.

Jesus. Great beer. I love this beer. Seriously just put me into the stratosphere with the bitter finish and hoppy structure.

the aroma is sweet hoppiness. flavor is much the same. flavor is bolder than aroma. it has a decent bitter finish.