Two Brothers Hop Juice

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Fresh hoppy scent from a golden orange body. Bitter with a hearty malt backbone, typical of most midwestern and eastern imperial IPA's. Nothing in this one to distinguish it from the rest of the pack, solid all around.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Acquired in a trade with wnoble. Poured a dark cloudy amber with a smallish head that dissolved into a coating. Lacing was pretty intense and remained throughout. Nose was pineapple, grapefruit and some resin and sweet malts. Taste was surprisingly malt forward and some breadiness, although citrus and pine from the hops was there. Pretty well balanced beer but on the sweet side of the DIPA spectrum. Finish was nice and dry but not overly bitter. Mouthfeel was medium, creamy and somewhat oily. Carbonation was moderate. I did not tire of this and would drink as much as the 9.9% would allow. I was pleasantly surprised at this beer and would abosolutely try it again if it were available.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Pours a copper color with a two finger eggshell colored head with lots of long lasting lacing on the sides of the glass. Aroma of citrus fruit, lychee and sappy pine. Initial sweet grapefruit and lemon flavors which are slowly overtaken by resiny, pine hops, and ending with a nice, bready malt finish. Slighty bitter, but not nearly as much as I thought it would be. The alcohol is well hidden. Medium to full mouthfeel. A nice quaff from Two Brothers.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Shared with my buddy before the Railroad Earth show last Friday. Poured a beautiful semi hazey copper colour with a big off white head. Taste was generously hoppy super satisfying and pleasent with grapefruit and plenty of citrus character. Aroma is slightly floral with fruity notes and soft pine. Otherwise astringent taste, a little chewy in the finish and very firm on the palate.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

shutter-buggery!?!? drank during the 4th quarter of the '09 Superbowl .. . abv is non existent .. . very nice foam .. . wonderfully full, life's a beach! .. . one of the sweeter IIPA's which i really like ..also one of the smoothest IIPA's ever .. . dark rust color .. . maple, pine cone aromas .. . that's what we call a manatee, boys; or in nautical terms, the seacow!

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Nut brown, not much head. Cranberries in aroma. At first strawberries in flavour, then cranberries and hints of caramel and hops and some weak notes of roast.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Poured a deep amber color, cloudy w/ sedimentation, the initial head rather weak, but the lacing making a decent showing. The aroma was caramel, bitter citrus rinds, v. light diacetyl. The flavor was tea bags (strong), oranges, some nondescript sour notes, and finishing with a pine hop bitter finish. Alcohol was incredibly quiet in this thing at 9.9%. The mouthfeel was the best part, hearty, fully, very nice. Thanks to Bert for sharing, he's a pal!

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

Pours in a orange colour with a low bubbly head. Fresh grapefruity hop aroma with notes of pine-needles and a nice airy foresty tone. Light undertone of peaches. Piney and grapefruity flavour with a refreshing minrealy undertone. Notes of pear-peeös and dry mango notes. Not really heavy and not too sweet as some 2XIPA’s can be. This is a really oustanding example..

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Poured a hazy copper color with a small, off white head that left light lacing on the glass. Aroma of citrus fruits, some caramel, orange peel, and pine. Taste of light pine, citrus, some toffee, caramel with low bitterness. The nasty yeast strain dominated the taste here, and was extremely offensive.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Now, if this was a label competition, this has one of the more elegant and beautiful labels I’ve seen in a while, but this is about beer and so it’ll be the beer I rate. A cloudy medium copper with very little head. The aroma is limited to a little orange pith with a touch of lemon zest. The maltiness is a flat, insipid caramel that really doesn’t do any thing for the hops, or really go with them all that well for that matter. There’s a suitable bitterness in the middle, but quite frankly, this is probably one of the worst double IPAs I’ve had. Still drinkable but way too boring for the style.