Two Brothers Heavy Handed India Pale Ale

Bottle. Pours amber with an off white head. Aroma of caramel malt and herbal hops. The flavor has some sweeter malts and peppery, earthy, herbal hops. Not that good, but still drinkable.

Pours copper with a thin white head. Smells of caramel, peppery, some appley hints. Tastes earthy and sweet with some bitterness that accompanies a light honey finish.

12 oz bottle. Ah, another beer on the quest of rating. Pours a copper brown color that has a tiny white head which disappates very quickly. Smells of an abundance of caramel, some wet hops, and a bit of honey (though I might be confusing that with the caramel). Tastes of lots of caramel, some honey, a bit of grass, and the lightest amount of hops that I’ve had in an IPA in a while. Goes down fairly smooth, but it has too much caramel. Interesting beer, but I was hoping for a lot more hops in this IPA.

12 Bottle from BOTW. Pours a nice amber color with a decent pillowing head. Aroma is floral and fresh west coast hops. The flavor is more caramely than I had expected. This is a full bodied IPA - with more to it than just screaming hops. Incredibly easy to drink and quite pleasurable - if not memorable.

This pours a cloudy orange color with a medium head and plenty of nice lace. The beer has nice aromatic qualities of grassy hops and some caramel sweetness. The Flavor is nicley bitter with plenty of piney hops and some good malt notes of honey and caramel. Very well balanced. The beer is well rounded and fabulously put together.

Two bottles, in pint glasses. (Over)expansive creamy head, with one bottle foaming over when opened. Floral, citrusy hop aroma without a lot of bitterness, but flavor profile doesn’t quite match intensity of the nose.

Poured from the bottle into a tulip glass. Pour produced a hazy, amber body, topped by a medium head of beige foam, with moderate lacing. Aroma a decently hoppy, fresh and clean, with floral notes. This a full-bodied ale, with a lot of mouthfeel. Of note is the way the ale wets the lips and coats the tongue, not syrupy or watery, but just the right level of viscosity. The flavor, as expected from an IPA, is bitter, but subsides quickly, melding it’s bitter hop notes with the roast of the malts, which add a small touch of sweetness, then quickly settling into the hops aftertaste. A very drinkable brew, regardless of it’s simple palate, has a decent flavor range that offers a different perspective with each quaff. Another strong showing by Two Brothers.

Bottle from Archer Liquors. Reddish copper color with a decent beige head. Aroma of resin. Medium body with fine carbonation. Flavor is lots of hop - not just pine - over lightly roasted malt. Goes through a number of things - floral - sweet - bitter into the finish. Leaves a nice hoppy ending, but not super bitter. Really good ale.