Hop Centric
Two Brothers Brewing Company in Warrenville, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.40
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Leighton (34888) reviewed Hop Centric from Two Brothers Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
I’ve become a huge fan of the hops. The stronger the better it seems lately. So Hop Juice cam around at just the right time for me. I had this on tap at the Blind Tiger in NYC. Just a huge beer in every aspect.Poured a red, amber color with a slight but thick head. Smelled of hops and roasted malts. As I look back on my tasting notes, I read "Taste is like a rainbow hallucination." So there you go, it was a vast menagerie of hops with such dynamic flavors as citrus and caramel. Truly unreal: complex, satisfying - I couldn’t ask for a better IPA. Get your hands on this brew if you can.
Dogbrick (24152) reviewed Hop Centric from Two Brothers Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
This brew pours a hazy copper color with a medium thick off-white head that dissipates slowly. Patches of lacing on the glass. Citrusy hops aroma with a solid malt base, along with some piney notes. Medium body with a moderately bitter hops character that has citrus and pine aspects. Sweet malt underbelly throughout. The finish is hoppy with a lingering bitter aftertaste. Pretty good overall.
deyholla (22634) reviewed Hop Centric from Two Brothers Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Cask. Poured a reddish amber with a near white head. Aroma was full of hops, giving it an almost wooden aroma. Flavor is dominated by hops throughout, quite bitter.
maniac (11830) reviewed Hop Centric from Two Brothers Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle courtesy of dkachur from Whole Foods - Bowery at the 8th Richmond Gathering on 06/06/2009. Clear amber body with a small frothy off-white head. Very sweet caramel with some floral and citrus hop aroma with some resiny notes. Sweet floral and resiny hop flavor, some sweet caramel notes. Medium body with moderate carbonation.
Drake (22938) reviewed Hop Centric from Two Brothers Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
22 ounce bottle from Whole Foods Market NYC Bowery. Pours a clear amber color with a medium head. Decent head retention and lacing. Aroma is citrus hops, resin and light sweet malts. Taste is bitter resiny hops, sugary malt notes and citrus notes as well. Medium bodied. Alcohol is not noticeable and this is quite drinkable. Very nice.
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Hop Centric from Two Brothers Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Very good & dense mango-coloured head, very even over slightly hazy red-orange beer, and leaving lacerings. Citrussy, resiny aromas, even nearly white spirit; bit of rosemary and lytchee. Rather hard, resiny & bittter flavours, going to quinine-like dimensions. Still, some cookie-sweetness lurking below, and generally very aromatic. Retronasal lemon- or grapefruitpeel. Very well-bodied, slick and oily-sticky, remindful of the fresh hopflower. Bit burning MF. As they say, a beer for the real hopheads, not for the faint-hearted. I think I can live with that. Thanks to DavidA!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared by Beerlando. Pours orange copper color with off white head. Sweet grapefruit aroma. Flavor is sweet toffee and grapefruit with a good amount of hoppiness. Medium body with average carbonation and a syrupy mouthfeel.
jgb9348 (11734) reviewed Hop Centric from Two Brothers Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Nice deep amber coloured body with a super thin tan head (that fades right away) and very little else. Aroma of pure hops (high a.a.), malt, cane sugar and even some nuts. Medium-bodied; Super strong hoppy flavour with a potent maltiness, strong sugars and the mouth-coating consistency that makes an IIPA exactly what it is. Aftertaste shows so much of the hops, but also a bit of the sugars and plenty of the full malt. Overall, a decent IIPA, a bit less obtrusive than others and more palatable to me. Worth trying if you prefer IPAs over IIPAs, but could stomach the latter. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased at Rick’s Beer & Wine in Chicago, Illinois on 13 January 2007.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bomber from fiver29; Nose of piney and citrus hops and caramel; copper with a medium beige head that laces nicely; flavor is caramelly, slightly sweet with some light hop bitterness; not much of a hop bomb for 100 IBUs. Nice and drinkable though.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
There’s something to be said for the head on a beer. Beer without a nice foamy head is barely recognizable as beer. This beer has no head atop the nearly opaque bronze/orange body. Smell is more mild than other DoubleIPAs, plenty of hops, but notes of flowers and pine. Flavor is anything but mild, strong lemony citrus flavor, pine, grapefruit with a touch of malt and caramel at the end. Finish is lasting bitterness and the high alcohol hits you hard. I expected more of the resin the description offers, but all in all, it was an above average IIPA.