Two Brothers Domaine DuPage

Mostly clear, amber/copper color, small head, turns to nil. Aroma of caramel malt, sweetness, fruit, flowers, and Belgian yeast. More of that on the tongue once it hits the palate. Nice biere de garde, though it tastes a lot like a Belgian amber or pale ale. Sweetness stays on top, rich malt, easy drinkability. Tasty stuff. Almost too sweet, but it grows dry, but lingers on the tongue. Nice. I’ll have another. Well, one more. After that I need some hops.

Pours a copperish golden with a white head. Has a mild aroma of spice and bread, with some floral hops. Flavor is slighlty spiced with some caramel malt and a bit of toasted malt. Some hops is evident.

Transparent copper look. Basic wet bread and crushed grain aroma, lightly metallic and mineral and pervaded with maple sweetness. Nutty malts. Nothing brisk, nothing dry, nothing dusty. Hazelnuts, and caramel; more brown ale than biere de garde, seemingly. Sweetness still frames the flavor, with a cold, damp lager characteristic about the malts; cinnamon, pears, brown sugar, apple juice. Yeast presence is absent, and it is as such quite removed from the territory of its style, while nuts and breads are most prevalent. So the provided flavors are pleasant and always substantive, and if it could be called a brown ale with maybe a touch of belgian malt I could be quite happy with it. Medium body with an autumnal feeling of leafiness and distant crisp sensations; finishes with a slow settling of floral hops that cleans it up somewhat, and returning to brown banana and vague maple glazed pit fruits on a chunky smack. For something that is by no stretch a stock or farmhouse ale, it retains a fair amount of warmth and subtlety, which is enough to salvage it and make it agreeable.

Pours a clear copper with thick white head that dissipates to a thin layer. Aroma is definite earthy malts with light notes of coffee beans and chocolate. Flavor is malts, toasted caramel with light bitter notes. Body is medium, a bit creamy but light carbonation. Nothing to complex.

Light brown/red in color with an thin off white head. Earthy nose and a nutty and earth flavor. Not what I expected for this style.