Two Brothers Moaten

Brewed by Two Brothers Brewing Company
Style: Sour Ale
Warrenville, Illinois USA

Bottle via trade thanks to deliriumfest on BA. Pours clear deep red with a small off-white head and good lacing. Aroma is a little weak with tart cherries, grainy notes, and some oak. Flavor is a bit weird and not very sour at all. Sweet cherries, grain, spices, oak, and some cardboardy oxidation. Not great on the palate - fairly light and not at all acidic. Overall, this is not awful, but it’s really not to style.

Not awful but a very poor representation of the style. Pours deep orangey amber color with a medium sized canvas head that is bubbly. Nose is sweaty socks, unbaked bread, vinegar, white pepper, hint of green olive, and some sort of off plastic/vinyl smell. Taste is about the same with some styrofoam. Mouthfeel is creamy, yet extremely watery, and the finish is medium length, and somewhat unpleasant. Very uninspiring.

Draught at Rattle ’n Hum, New York
Dark brown color. It’s an average caramel brew, with some residual sugars, and just a very light sourness. Short final. Not what somebody would expect.

This is probably overall one of the worst beers I have ever tasted. An embarassment of the style. Too bubbly and the flavor isn’t truly sour like Duchesse de Bourgnone or others. Just yuck, yuck, yuck...astringent like drinking a chemical.

Bottle shared by nimbleprop: Pours a transparent dark copper amber with a thin coating of spotty-lacing off-white head. Aroma of fresh toasty caramel malts with a touch of light fruity tartness and some mild oak. Starts with a light sugary malty sweetness and a touch of spritzy carbonation and a hint of light fruity tartness and cookie dough before a semi-dry earthy finish. Not much of a sour, but still drinkable.

Bottle. Aromas of moderate straw for the malt, light herbs for the hops, faint mold for the yeast, with grape and wood in the background. Head is small, wispy, white with no lacing and is almost fully diminishing. Flavor is lightly sweet and sour and moderately acidic to start, then finishes moderately acidic, and lightly bitter and sour. Palate is on the lighter side of medium, watery with a soft carbonation and a lightly dry and astringent finish. I’m either acquiring a taste for Sour Ales or this is unique amongst the style.

12.7oz bottle shared at the DC Local tasting. Clear, copper brown with a thin, spitty head. Aroma is fairly mild, red grapes, sticky fruits, slightly tart. Flavor is overly sweet, slightly tart, caramel, a little wood. Finish is watery, flat. Not good.

Bottle. pours a ruby red with a small white head. Notes of musty doughy malts, medicine, rotten fruit, wood, bread, toast, vegtables and chocolate. A lot going on, but it came across as a bit muddled. don’t expect it to be sour. sourheads will be dissappointed.