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Two Brothers Heavy Handed India Pale Ale 3.46 375

Two Brothers Heavy Handed India Pale Ale

Percentile
86
overall

bottled
common

on tap
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
3753.47/5.03.46/5.06.7%72.2Shaker, Tulip
Commercial Description:
Wet hops are added for the right amount of flavor. 62 IBUs.

2006 Heavy Handed Hop Varieties (list from http://www.twobrosbrew.com/)
Lot 2556 Willamette; Lot 2706 Galena; Lot 2806 Baby Cascade; Lot 3006 Cluster

2007 Heavy Handed Hop Varieties (list from http://www.twobrosbrew.com/)
Lot 2547 Willamette; Lot 2617 Cluster; Lot 2687 Centennial; Lot 2847 Baby Cascade

2008 Heavy Handed Hop Varieties (list from http://www.twobrosbrew.com/) Lot 2528 US Tettenang; Lot 2678 Baby Cascade; Lot 2748 Columbus-West Field; Lot 2798 Galena; Lot 2908 Centennial; Lot 2928 Columbus-East Field

2009 Heavy Handed Hop Varieties (list from http://www.twobrosbrew.com/) Lot 2549 Willamette-Field 1; Lot 2619 Willamette-Field 2; Lot 2719 Cascade; Lot 2819 Super Galena; Lot 3069 Columbus
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 Mangino (1027), Mississippi, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Apr 4, 2005  
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.


 Zinister (1207), Houston, Texas, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/515/20
Mar 9, 2007  
Bottle. Great looking IPA color with little head. Nice hop nose. Taste is your basic malt with good hop balance. Pine, citrus and good bitterness on the end.


 Schroppfy (1813), Ohio, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Nov 17, 2003  
Quite fresh hop flavors indeed, and as pretty much everyone here has mentioned, very little underneath. It's not exactly watery, and I've had much worse eau de hop kinds of IPAs before...a little like DFH 60 minute in the hoppiness but without the bits of sweet malt underneath.


 Cletus (5062), Connecticut, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Mar 24, 2009  
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.


 RAYBOY01 (1873), Chicago, Illinois, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/515/20
Dec 6, 2009  
Orangish golden pour and white fluffy head that releases a decent bitter pine and grapefruit aroma. Flavors are lighlty roasted crystal malt sweetness, bread dough, pine, citus and grapefruit. Decent bitter finish and pleasant to repeat.


 Illini08 (528), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/58/103/514/20
Oct 16, 2006  
Pours a clear ambe color. Aroma isn’t too strong, but still a nice piney hoppy aroma. Nice bitter flavor, a bit thin on the palate though. Good finish just lingers on the back of my tongue.


 theshocker (329), Marietta, Georgia, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/57/104/514/20
Sep 28, 2007  
This is the first wet hopped beer I’ve tried. It says 2007 harvest. Considering the 2007 started a few weeks ago and is still ongoing, this sucker is *fresh*. I’m surprised by how little aroma it has. I had to stick my nose right in there and all I got was a slightly grassy aroma. Not great, but not horrible either. Its a pretty beer though - crystal clear, light copper, small off-white head. The flavor is interesting. Fruity, bitter. Its a little grassy, which I understand is what happens when undried hops are used, but its a really light flavor and not to bad at all. The mouthfeel is full, light carbonation, smooth finish. Its an interesting beer, worth trying. My only gripe: if your IPA is 5.7%, its not an IPA. One point deduction for mislabelling.


 TheEnemy (423), Chicago, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/514/20
Jan 26, 2006  
12oz bottle.
Pours clear auburn-amber with quickly dissipating pillowy head and nice lacing. Very inticing citrus & pine aroma with some malt showing too. Take a sip -- what happened to the malt I detected in the aroma? Flavor is all hops, mostly piney and bitter -- where’d the floral and fruity notes go?. Seems more bitter than its indicated 62 IBUs, though some of the bitterness subsides as it warms and the malt almost makes a showing. Medium mouthfeel and slightly oily finish. Has enough kick to satisfy hopheads though I doubt even they’ll find anything outstanding about it. The best Two Brothers I’ve had yet, though that’s not saying much.



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