Two Hearted IPA
Bell's Brewery - Eccentric Café & General Store

Look: Dark orange with red hues and my pour kicks off a lofty off-white head that billows up and settles to a pillow, leaving awesome lacing behind
Aroma: Rose petals, lychee, lemons, freshly baked bread, floral hops, and light vegetal notes
Taste: Sweet rose and rose petals come together to start this off as lemons and a floral bouquet start to trickle in. Rose, sweet box, and tea olive in play all atop a nice bready and lightly sweet malt base and rose, lychee, and flowers dominate on the close
Mouthfeel: Full, clean, medium-high carbonation, and slick and lightly dry on the finish
Overall: This is a delicious beer. I love what Centennials bring to the table in beer and this offering showcases them excellently. Sweet rose/lychee dominates along with floral notes and lemons, plus this has an old-school malt feel in that it is present and noticeable throughout. Tasty, well-made, a classic, and recommended

 

Look - deep gold, amber hue, creamy white head, very good lacing left behind
Smell - piney, floral, earthy
Taste - pine hops, citrus, grapefruit, malty sweetness
Feel - medium body with light carbonation, creamy mouthfeel
Overall - I've had this beer several times and to me it's average at best. The flavors are there but it just seems lackluster. Had a few of these at a party recently and bought one more for good measure, for this review. It's good but one I wouldn't go out of my way for. As always, beer is better with great tunes so I paired Two Hearted with Hells Bells by AC/DC. Hell Yeah!

 

 

 

 

Not terrible but very one-dimensional. Pours an amber gold with a very slight haze, very citrusy aroma. The malt isn't quite enough to balance the hops, making it unnecessarily bitter. Most importantly the flavor is just very simple with some citrusy notes, which is a big part of why I generally don't like single-hop varietal IPAs.

 

 

 

This is a go-to IPA for me, and I find it's just as good or better than other IPAs priced much higher. I also appreciate that there is only one variety of hops, so I know what to expect when I find another beer brewed with Centennial hops. Great flavor, good value $$$

 

 

Nbsoc;
If you see this you know it’s an IPA; 5
If you smell this you know it’s centennial hops
If you taste this it is hoppy and dank regardless of a week old or three months
If you feel this, the hop resin and oils wash over the mouthfeel, tastes and feels quality
If you drink this beer, you will enjoy it…

 

 

 

 

Finally found this fresh, canned only a couple of weeks ago. It's very tasty old school IPA as expected. Perhaps a bit thin and watery, which, given the ABV, should not have been an issue. I'll have to seek out the double version of this as well.

The secrets out on two hearted IPA. Living spitting distance from Bell’s brewing I never realized how amazing two hearted is. As I branched out and tried other varieties of IPAs, and really all ales, I would always say good but not as good as two hearted. Inevitably I’d come right on back.

I think where two hearted really knocks it out of the park is balance. The flavor is hoppy but incredibly smooth. You get nice citrus notes but it doesn’t taste like someone added orange. Bold and full flavor, but delightfully drinkable. Strong, but not too strong at 7% abv. Good poured into a glass or straight out of the bottle. Overall it’s my perfect beer.

 

Hazy deep gold with a whopping three finger white head that is very slow to drop and leaves good lace. Very balanced aroma and flavor for a non- double IPA . also has an exceptionally heavy mouth feel for this single IPA very enjoyable, and has been a repeat buy.

 

Poured into a Seattle Beer Week pint glass. Pours a medium coppery amber with a half finger white head that dissipates to patches with light lacing. Aroma of dry caramel malt, piney and citrus hops, pine needles, tangerine, faint mixed light stone fruit. Flavor is dry caramel malt, citrus and piney hops, pine needles, grapefruit and undifferentiable citrus. Medium bodied with light to moderate creaminess. Like a step back in time, reminiscent of old fashioned craft IPAs with a quite West Coast hop bill. My favorite malt favor of caramel hops backed by citrus and pine from the hops. The hop herbal character is muted, but typical of the generation this came from; however the pine and citrus are great. Bitterness is moderate, but satisfactory. This is one of the classic IPAs that's been on my "try" list for decades and it doesn't disappoint. Now that Bell's appears to be available in the Northwest, I'll be revisiting this one again.

Smell: citrus
Taste: It starts off clean and crisp. It makes me wondering where is that typical fragrant and flavorful taste of the hops in the IPA. After a second or two, it follows up with slight bitterness. The bitterness balance quite well with the fruity flavor in the drink. All the flavors and bitterness keep aggregating and kind of blow up in my mouth from the third to four sip.

 

Purchased from Whole Foods in Highland Village, TX

Silky smooth, balanced clean and sharp hops and perfume floral aroma

Easy drinking and sessionable

 

Outstanding balance. Pours a beautiful reddish color that has a head that's not huge but is retained well
Starts off with a sweet burst of malt which quickly transitions to a clean, crisp bitterness, which then turns into a burst of grapefruit. Medium bodied and just all around perfectly balanced. Great beer! Glad it's readily available

 

I loved this brew in the late 90s, when IPAs were more my thing. I'm quite burnt out on the style today. However, it's got an orange color and a large off-white head. Nose is pungent with American hops. The beer is extremely fruity on the palate and medium-bodied in mouthfeel.

Though I avoid most IPAs today, I still like this one.

 

 

 

In my opinion one of the best commercially available beers in the US. I’ve had in cans, bottles and now a 1/4 keg. Just outstanding. A delicious pale ale from start to finish. Especially good on tap at 37 degrees.

It's rare to find an IPA that's extremely flavorful but not so much that it sacrifices drinkablity. This is that beer. Perfectly balanced. I wish I could taste this side-by-side with Pliny the Elder, because that's another perfectly balanced beer...I think this one is more sessionable though.