Two Brothers Project Opus 10

Brewed by Two Brothers Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale
Warrenville, Illinois USA

Rated at the Pewaukee Tasting II 5/5/07. Aroma – this one make my spinal cord twitch. Super tart, almost Cantillon-like, lemon musk. Appearance – Clear, dark brown with a light head; lots of floaters (not the first pour). Flavor – Very dry, stinging sharpness, some dark fruitiness

Aroma is faint sour cherries. Reddish brown body. Light palate. Taste is sour cherries with some sweetness to balance the sour. Hints of maple syrup? Not bad really.

This is a nice slightly sour flavored beer. Brown beer with a light to medium palate and fruity cherry flavor. It has a light cherry aroma. Pleasantly surprised by how much I liked this beer. Bottle.

F’in A, I wish I had that frickin’ john guy from the hampton inn to open my cork. Ruby red bodywith weird pink/white/brown head. Smells brett, sour, cherries, like a cherry blow pop. I taste cherry, acidic, and then bam theres the brett in the finish. It hits you in the back of throat and reaches up into the nose like wasabi. A tyypical thin body but no carb. I’m very happy with this brew by two brothers and I hope that this brew ages well. Jason (brewer) says that he saved some to be able to blend with the other lambics in the series.

375ml bottle, dated 2007, i believe bottled a few months ago. this was the hardest cork i’ve ever opened. i felt like that John guy at the hampton inn. pours a dense mahogony, not very red at all, with a spotty off white head. nose has subtle cherries, bret notes are very musty. flavor is more musty/yeasty bret than cherries, very subtle tart cherries, some caramel and very light chocolate, and this isn’t very sour or tart. this is however an extremely drinkable lambic without being sweetened, but you want a kriek to have more sour cherries and some sourness, tart, and acidity. this beer has almost none! carbination is fizzy. finish is dry. in the end i actually enjoyed drinking this a lot but this needs more sour cherries, oak aging, sour notes, and some acidity would be nice. i enjoyed this more than the rating would imply but rated to style and really suffers. i applaud 2bros for their effort here. 3.4.

thanks to a sample from holdenn aged 10 months and wow the cherries have really fallen off the map here. it never was really that krieky but now it might be hard to pinpoint real cherry flavor, just an earthy pit flavor. and the worst part is is that it’s still not very funky.2.5.

Aroma: sweet and sour cherries, mustiness, some pits, yeast, and grass
Appearance: dark brown, pinkish-purple head, lacing
Flavor: weird-like chocolate powder tastes, where’s the fruitiness found in the scent? Some sourness but just up front, then quickly disappears
Palate: little sourness up front which disappears and is replaced by dusty, cherry-chocolate aftertaste
Overall: falls short of my initial expectations

Bottle thanks to headbanger. Body has the color of black cherries while the head is off-white, almost grey looking, which is stange. Decent nose, cherries immediately evident, With a small bit of bacterial hints in the nose... not on the level of a proper kriek lambic or even something like Phoenix Kriek, but nonetheless it smells nice... lightly peppery on the nose with a black cherry skin scent. Lightly sweet up front, pale and a bit bland, or rather uncomplex or lacking depth, but what is there is decent enough... some sour and lightly tart lactic yeast, some more pale and almost bland cherry qualities... was really hoping for a big dose of black cherry skins like in the nose but it’s not close to that. Finish is bland and pasty, that taste of chewed notebook paper... lightly tingling on the tongue in the finish. Doesn’t really have a lot of problems other than the recipe I think... just doesn’t put either the fruit or the yeast forward, and if one of those is not forward then there’s really nothing much to taste.

Sweet lord, what is going on with this one? Good aroma at first with a bit of the brett character coming through, a bit of cherry and a little oak. After that, it seems they went wild adding every specialty malt known to man. Just too much going on in here to really make sense of it all. Seems to be a kitchen sink type of beer with the brewmaster believing "better" equates to "more". A lambic? Really? Interesting...........pass on this one.