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Two Brothers Hop Juice

Two Brothers Hop Juice - Imperial/Double IPA

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94
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Brewed by Two Brothers Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA

Warrenville, Illinois USA

bottled
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on tap
common

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
4343.68/5.03.67/5.0Special9.9%67.4Snifter, Tulip
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Hop Juice is one of a series of special limited-run beers in styles that are more extreme or unusual. This one is a real hop blast, dripping with the resiny soul of fresh Northwest hops. Don't come crying to us if it's too much for you; this one's for hopheads only! And get it now, cause when it's gone, it's gone. Boo hoo. 22.7 Plato 100.1 IBU
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 oh6gdx (8795), Vasa, Finland
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Jun 19, 2006  
Bottled. Dark hazy orange colour, mediumsized creamy off-white head. Aroma is hops and yeast. Flavour is hoppy, grassy and alcoholic. The alcohol and hops reaches their peaks in the finish and leave a wellbalanced flavour afterwards.


 Lowe1983 (1029), Fairborn, Ohio, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/516/20
Jun 17, 2006  
Pours an orangish-amber color with a thin off-white head. Aroma is of citrus and pine hops, sweet malts, and caramel. Flavor starts off as citrus and pine hops that give way to floral hops and caramel. Decent bitter finish but not as much as a double IPA should have. Good but certainely not my favorite.


 rickgordon (3285), Göteborg, Sweden
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Jun 14, 2006  
[Bottled, sampled at Oliver Twist, Stockholm] Cloudy golden colour. Flowers, sweetish, tropical fruits in aroma - bit restrained, I want more aroma hops. Flavour is fresh flowery with tropical fruits and a big bitterness. Super smooth body. This was indeed a laid-back IIPA. I’d prefer a load more of high alpha hops when it comes to flavour and bitterness. Still, this is a pretty big beer.


 beervana (781), Libertyville, Illinois, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/59/103/518/20
Jun 13, 2006  
(04.28.06) One pint, 6 oz brown bottle from DiCarlo’s, Libertyville, IL. A double IPA with 9.9% ABV, 22.7 P, 100.1 IBU. Poured hazy orange with small white head. Some white particulates. Soft carbonation. Fruits, hops and sweet malt aroma. Medium bodied ale that starts with light malt sweetness and pronounced citrous hop flavor. Finished with light hop bitterness. Well balanced ale with a firm supportive malt base and a leaning towards hop flavors. More hop flavor than bitterness. An excellent drinkable beer.


 footbalm (1218), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/55/103/513/20
Jun 10, 2006  
Pours a murky cloudy unfiltered golden color with a nice layer of big white bubbles. Nose is big on the hops as you expect but it is also very sweet like someone dumped the juice from a can of peaches into it.But man,not a total IIPA to me but I always expect a hop smack down from these things. Lots of syrupy sweetness takes to much of the hop flavor from the tongue.


 iowaherkeye (1832), Bakersfield, California, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/512/20
Jun 3, 2006    Updated: Aug 15, 2007
Rerate. If I remember correctly, this was one of my first IIPAs. 22oz, no date. Clear light copper with a minimal beige head, low retention. This doesn’t seem like the freshest sample, but let’s keep on keepin’ on. Piney citrus hops and some caramel and light toast making up the backbone. The hops aren’t near strong enough for a double IPA, but again, I don’t know the age of this and remember how much I hate it when a brewer doesn’t list a born on date. Grassy hops do show up in the flavor, but I’m underwhelmed by the hops and the bitterness overall. With a name like hop juice, they should at least border on perfumey--they don’t. There are some caramel malts for a malt backbone. Full body with low to moderate carbonation. Not as good as I remember. Old rating follows. This 22oz bomber has no date, but he’s been in my closet since last October, so I think it’s 2005 (only think they did one run of these anyway). Pours a hazy reddish orange with a ring of off-white head. Big aroma of grapefruit and resin, with some pine in the background. Some toffee malts are also present, with a little bit of a boozy aroma. Taste is the same with the addition of some raisins, though overall flavor is not as big as one would expect. Bitterness never gets really huge either. Full bodied, almost no carbonation at all. Pretty decent. 8-4-7-3-13--3.5


 agl108 (503), Manayunk, Pennsylvania, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Jun 3, 2006  
22 oz. bottle. Pours a dark copper with thick white head. Citrus and floral aroma. Flavor is typical IIPA without the extreme bitterness. Alcohol is unnoticeable. Terrific mixture of malts and hops. A very nice IIPA. Better than its rating.


 weeare138 (933), Collegeville, Pennsylvania, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/513/20
Jun 2, 2006  
Thanks to fatty for this... Appears a light orange gold with a small white head that fades into a tiny collar. Lots of spotty lacing left around the glass. Smell is of huge citrus, bicuity malt, with an almost rye like smell buried deep in the background. Taste is of the same aromas with nothing else jumping out at me. Mouthfeel is dry, yeasty, kind of gross in the swallow.



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