Two Brothers Heavy Handed India Pale Ale

Pours a clear amber with a tightly knit white head that sticks around for a long time. Soft aromas of orange, peach, malt and the slight presence of oxidation. Med. bodied that’s lush and mouth-coating. Flavors of grapefruit and oranges (maybe a mix of a c-hop and some amarrillo) with a really nice crystal malt backbone. Nice dry soft med. bitter finish. A bit of diacetyl and oxidation make this less than perfect but it is really good.

Amber almost bright orange color on the pour amazing fluffy white head stays around a long long time. The aroma is hoppy and a little pine scent. Beautiful smell and head. A lot of hop taste to it too. A little pine flavor but not overpowering. I can taste some malt in this one and a nice bitter finish. This is a very good IPA. This one was a nice surprise!!

Pours a bright amber color. Small white head. Aroma is musty citrus fruit. Flavor is sweet and hoppy, lots of piney citrus notes come out with other fruits. Not Bad.

Sweet luscious nose from this.Sweet,perfumey,citrusy and heavenly.Too bad the flavor is a let down.Raher bitter and flavorless compared to the aroma.

Bottled. Dark amber, non-existant head. Lychee aroma. Sweet with abruptly short mouthfeel, but lingering hoppiness. There’s some ash and apple in there, and the short finish is harsh and bitter. A mediocre IPA.

Aroma is not as hoppy as one would hope, much disdain along that realm. Mostly a nice warming and fairly fresh caramel tone wafts about while a soft biscuit-like grainyness and very slight dry cardboard note the last of each wiff. Color is a jello hazed honey brownish gold with slowly suspended small particals floating around within and some even slower gurgling bubbles. Very tight and thin cap of off-white appears from the pour which slips away quickly. Keeps a bubbly collar and the lacing sticks in stringy thingys. Taste is about the same with an understated caramel nougat and a dry papery hop. Some soft grainyness applies a bit of grab and toastyness but tends to be overall "weak-handed" and not nearly as hoppy as its potential given the floaties seen in it. I keep coming back to a cardboard and slight chalky finish which just isn’t helping. Somewhat smooth and clean up to that point though. The finish ruined anything that potentially could have left an impression for me yet somehow I wasn’t completely put off by it. Feel is a bit draining and weak, with a less then medium body and a slight build of grainy husk flavor and texture in the middle where it then takes a turn towards the undermanaged cardboard and chalky finish. Touches of tin and/or tannin don’t help either. Nothing is overly striking or terrible, its just mediorche and haphazardly drawn out. No real hop tone other then then cardboard woodish thing. It’s still clean and somehow drinkable though, the flavors aren’t all that off, its just that there’s not enough of them and the ones that are there just don’t work for me. I keep thinking its what you’d get if a cross a saison and a pilsner. Weird, but strangely effective and tolerable. A hard brew to put numbers to.

Nice amber color, thin white lacing. Sweet and hoppy aroma and flavor. Overall, pretty good but I’ve had plenty better.

pours orange with a white head. sweet hoppy nose. nice bitter hop flavor that still reflects a nice malt side. good bitter finish. a nice ipa.