Purchased: 22oz bomber bought at Binny's in Illinois; 2013
Style/ABV: India Pale Ale, 6.75%
Reported IBUs: 70.2
Oh shit. Things are getting legit! It looks like Two Brothers made some updates to their website. They've upgraded from some 1993 GeoCities page to some 1996 you-just-got-AOL page. Maybe in 15 years their website will catch up to the millenium. Who knows. I'm just busting balls, of course. Two Brothers is busy making beer and paying the rent for their Roundhouse. To quote Ali G: "respect." About Two Brothers:
A panda enters a restaurant, sits down and orders a sandwich. After he finishes the sandwich, the panda pulls out a gun and shoots the waiter, and then stands up to go. "Hey!" shouts the manager. "Where are you going? You just shot my waiter and you didn't pay for your sandwich!"
The panda yells back at the manager, "Hey man, I am a PANDA! Look it up!" The manager looks up the definition for panda: "A tree-dwelling mamal of Asian origin, characterised by distinct black and white colouring. Eats shoots and leaves.
Can you say, hiiii-yooooo. Maybe I'm just projecting, but that joke is one bear away from being racist. But it's cool, because no one likes pandas anyway. Brown Bears > Chicago Bears > Polar Bears > Bernstein Bears > Black Bears > Pandas. Anyway.
Credit to the colorful bottle art, the green label is eye-catching and compelled me to walk over and check this beer out. The beer pours into a filtered, apple-juice-colored body, with 3-fingers of sticky, off-white head. In bright light, the body is a nice golden/honey color, the head is white with a hint of gold, and there is moderate-sized, lazy carbonation streaming upwards. The head is pillowy, leaving nice lacing, and seems to be sticking around.
The aroma here suggests that this is super fresh. I'm pulling off big grapefruit, mango, and citrus. There's some oranges, hints of toffee and sweet, bready malts, and some orange candy sweetness. I'm also getting some big apricot, light peach, strawberry, and fresh grassy wetness.
For 6.75%, this has a hell of a dense body. It reminds me a bit of the Unicorn's Revenge and the Ninja vs. Unicorn by Pipeworks. The taste features big, dense, bready sweetness, with big candied citrus, grapefruit, orange, apricot, and earthy hops. The finish is malty and juicy, and then dry. There's a light herbal character, and some earthy spice abound as well.
Drinkability is excellent on this, as you don't notice the near-7% ABV at all. Palate depth is great, while complexity is just okay. The mouthfeel is medium-full. This has an impressive body for the ABV, and starts off with dank, bready, sweet orange, grapefruit, citrus, grass, and apricot; that rolls into some juicy citrus, earthy hops, mild spice; the finish is bitterness, big earthy spice, drying, and some mild woody kick. The bitterness is well compensated by nice flavor and malt. Good stuff.
Rating: Above-Average (4.0/5 Untappd)
This is a Decent Above-Average. If you're looking for a dank, juicy, full-bodied IPA, this will fit the task. There's a nice earthy bitterness to this beer, along with some nice hop spice, and big apricot in the aroma/taste...plus the big body. I'm curious how much the aforementioned things are influenced by the addition of the green tea. Either way, this is a tasty IPA. You could pair this with wings, a burger, chicken, pizza...whatever, really. Tasty stuff, and basically a steal at 7 dollars a bomber.
Random Thought: And then there I was. Taking apart a netbook. It's about on par with breaking down a laptop, which isn't that rough. It seems that the smaller you go, the harder it is to take apart. I'm looking at you, MP3 player. At this point, my success rate has to be around 50%. I've definitely destroyed my fair share of electronics, but I've also fixed things and successfully put them back together. I guess you can't win them all. All I have to do is replace a LCD panel and I can cross that off my bucket list.
Reported IBUs: 70.2
Oh shit. Things are getting legit! It looks like Two Brothers made some updates to their website. They've upgraded from some 1993 GeoCities page to some 1996 you-just-got-AOL page. Maybe in 15 years their website will catch up to the millenium. Who knows. I'm just busting balls, of course. Two Brothers is busy making beer and paying the rent for their Roundhouse. To quote Ali G: "respect." About Two Brothers:
Two Brothers are based out of Warrenville, Illinois, a town not far from Chicago. Two brothers was founded in 1996 by brother Jason and Jim Ebel. Their brewery and Tap House Restaurant are both located in Warrenville. Their distribution and production seems to be increasing with each year, and along with their beer you can buy home brewing equipment and supplies at the Tap House Restaurant. If you get the chance, swing by and check out their Roundhouse. It's an awesome joint, and needs all the love it can get.Tonight's beer is all new and cutting edge. Hopefully that translates to that fresh hop money shot. Hops: it's what I crave. The Laughing Panda is also brewed with green tea. I happen to enjoy a glass of green tea, and I think it has the potential to mesh well with an IPA. The back of the bottle reads:
A panda enters a restaurant, sits down and orders a sandwich. After he finishes the sandwich, the panda pulls out a gun and shoots the waiter, and then stands up to go. "Hey!" shouts the manager. "Where are you going? You just shot my waiter and you didn't pay for your sandwich!"
The panda yells back at the manager, "Hey man, I am a PANDA! Look it up!" The manager looks up the definition for panda: "A tree-dwelling mamal of Asian origin, characterised by distinct black and white colouring. Eats shoots and leaves.
Can you say, hiiii-yooooo. Maybe I'm just projecting, but that joke is one bear away from being racist. But it's cool, because no one likes pandas anyway. Brown Bears > Chicago Bears > Polar Bears > Bernstein Bears > Black Bears > Pandas. Anyway.
Credit to the colorful bottle art, the green label is eye-catching and compelled me to walk over and check this beer out. The beer pours into a filtered, apple-juice-colored body, with 3-fingers of sticky, off-white head. In bright light, the body is a nice golden/honey color, the head is white with a hint of gold, and there is moderate-sized, lazy carbonation streaming upwards. The head is pillowy, leaving nice lacing, and seems to be sticking around.
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| Two Brothers Laughing Panda |
The aroma here suggests that this is super fresh. I'm pulling off big grapefruit, mango, and citrus. There's some oranges, hints of toffee and sweet, bready malts, and some orange candy sweetness. I'm also getting some big apricot, light peach, strawberry, and fresh grassy wetness.
For 6.75%, this has a hell of a dense body. It reminds me a bit of the Unicorn's Revenge and the Ninja vs. Unicorn by Pipeworks. The taste features big, dense, bready sweetness, with big candied citrus, grapefruit, orange, apricot, and earthy hops. The finish is malty and juicy, and then dry. There's a light herbal character, and some earthy spice abound as well.
Drinkability is excellent on this, as you don't notice the near-7% ABV at all. Palate depth is great, while complexity is just okay. The mouthfeel is medium-full. This has an impressive body for the ABV, and starts off with dank, bready, sweet orange, grapefruit, citrus, grass, and apricot; that rolls into some juicy citrus, earthy hops, mild spice; the finish is bitterness, big earthy spice, drying, and some mild woody kick. The bitterness is well compensated by nice flavor and malt. Good stuff.
Rating: Above-Average (4.0/5 Untappd)
This is a Decent Above-Average. If you're looking for a dank, juicy, full-bodied IPA, this will fit the task. There's a nice earthy bitterness to this beer, along with some nice hop spice, and big apricot in the aroma/taste...plus the big body. I'm curious how much the aforementioned things are influenced by the addition of the green tea. Either way, this is a tasty IPA. You could pair this with wings, a burger, chicken, pizza...whatever, really. Tasty stuff, and basically a steal at 7 dollars a bomber.
Random Thought: And then there I was. Taking apart a netbook. It's about on par with breaking down a laptop, which isn't that rough. It seems that the smaller you go, the harder it is to take apart. I'm looking at you, MP3 player. At this point, my success rate has to be around 50%. I've definitely destroyed my fair share of electronics, but I've also fixed things and successfully put them back together. I guess you can't win them all. All I have to do is replace a LCD panel and I can cross that off my bucket list.
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