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Two Roads Brewing Co.
REGIONAL
ROUTE: I-95 South
Founded: 2012
Impression
Massive old industrial building in Stratford, with a large parking lot. Ground-floor entrance is small; perhaps where workers punched their time cards on the way into and out of the factory. A direct sales counter exists adjacent to this room. Steep wooden steps lead to the 2nd floor and a panelled hallway decorated with historical photos. Past a gift shop with loads of snazzy merch, then into a huge, 50-yard long tasting room on second floor. Large central bar with numerous taps; tall periphral windows all around, featuring about 30 tanks and vats and a bottling operation back on the first floor. The feel is very much industrial and utilitarian, much in keeping with a certain craft-beer ethic of simplicity, not pomp. On a first visit, the crowd was quite large, even given that it was a Friday evening.
BEERS TASTED
Beer 1: Geyser Gose (5.2% abv). Classic Gose with tart lime flavor. Despite the Gose lightness, this beer has nice body and malt. Gold-amber color. (Tasted at Two Roads Stratford 4/5/19.)
Beer 5: Irish Exit Porter (4.5% abv) Coffee-heavy attack. Light flavor, tending to watery on back of palate. Does not have the length of a Guinness. Not truly innovative. Some brett and cow sweaty, but not complex like, say, Brewport's Dr. Porter Stout. (Tasted at Two Roads Stratford 4/5/19.)
Beer 2: Passion Fruit Gose (5.2% abv). Light, very tart, very thirst-quenching. Cat's pee on attack, with passion-fruit and orange on the mid-palate. (Tasted at Two Roads Stratford 4/5/19.)
Beer 6: Cherry Quad Belgian Quadrupel (10.3% abv) No available notes. (Tasting at Two Roads 5/25/22.)
Beer 3: Persian Lime Gose (4.5% abv). Woah! Big key lime flavor! Tart, like a Gose should be, but fruit sweetness from limes. Yellow-green hue. (Tasted at Two Roads Stratford 4/5/19.)
Beer 7: Passion Fruit Gose (4.8% abv) No available notes. (Tasting at Two Roads 5/25/22.)
Beer 4: Road to Ruin (8.0% abv). Almost pedestrian after having tasted 3 Goses first, i.e., not as complex as teh Goses. Delicious, very hoppy, big malt and even some very light toast. Standard DIPA, in many ways, but quite classic and quite good. Not boring, but at this point, nothing original, either. A touch of malty-sweet backbone. (Tasted at Two Roads Stratford 4/5/19.)
Beer 8: Cruise-control "Easy Riding" Lager (4.8% abv) Light gold color, no big head, a touch hazy. Classic American lager, with sweet-ish aroma on finish. Decent carbonation, fair quantiity of low-density foam in mouth, generally neutral taste except for some barley/malty notes that are not out of equilibrium. Refreshing, though not super-bright. Taste tapers off quickly. No obvious hop bitterness or astringency. (Home tasting: 4/12/23.)
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