Two Brothers Bare Tree Weiss Wine (2002 and later)
This unique Barley Wine Style beer is brewed iwth 57% wheat, 43% barley, and German hops. We boil the 25.2 Plato wort for three hours. Then we start the fermentation with our Hefe Weizen yeast and finish it with a Scottish Ale yeast. Bare Tree is then oak aged for over one year before its release. The resulting product is extremely complex with flavors of caramel, melon, apricot, vanilla, oak, black pepper, and subtle banana. The flavors come in large part from the raw ingredients and this will vary from year to year. Bare Tree is ready to drink now, but like wine, will age in the bottle for the next several years. So, whether you decide to enjoy a bottle now or wait many years, the Two Brothers family offer a toast: "With every bare tree lives the promise of a new life." CHEERS. The 2002 vintage was aged in whisky and wine barrels.
Each vintage is rated here. Seperate vintages do not differentiate in recipe but do in their barrel usage. Because of this and Brewers Intent without changing of names or labels and leaving no differentiation for the beer drinker, these are not seperate listings. If Two Brothers decides to specifically market these products based on their barrel type in the future, changes can be made.
Each vintage is rated here. Seperate vintages do not differentiate in recipe but do in their barrel usage. Because of this and Brewers Intent without changing of names or labels and leaving no differentiation for the beer drinker, these are not seperate listings. If Two Brothers decides to specifically market these products based on their barrel type in the future, changes can be made.
3.5
431 reviews
Warrenville, United States
Community reviews
375ml bottle. C&C. Pour is a hazy orange and flat. Nose is slightly oxidized and papery. Taste is slightly watery and completely flat. Probably a good beer, but flat it just sort of kills the mouthfeel and flavor.
Bottle. Pours a deep amber color with a lacy white head. Notes of caramel, cologne, cereal grains, milk chocolate. Kind of weird.
Bottle in Glenwood Springs with friends, courtesy of Aaron. Thanks Man! Pour is hazy amber-brown with a small tan head and good lacing. Bready, twangy, somewhat husky, tangy, caramelly, and figgy aroma. Taste is homebrew twang, grapey, slightly sour, husky, perfumey, grassy, and caramelly. Medium body with high carbonation. Some seriously off characteristics.
2010 bottle thanks to Stephen. Pours a big hazy, light golden orange appearance with a tan head. Aroma has some olives, orange citrus, and spices. Twangy, tart citrus flavor with some lime and veggie. Some wine notes. Ehhh, not very good.
2012 bottle opened in 2014 by Cbfobes. Hazy unfiltered golden-tan body. Tastes faded. Odd mushroom off tones. The wheat has deteriorated, but the BW aspect isn’t so bad. Past it’s prime, devolved.
2012 on tap from Daily Growler, UA. Orange gold pour. Aroma of wheat, sugar, butter. Tastes of bread, orange, lemon, wheat, biscuit, toffee. - 7.0
Golden orange pour with a white head. Aromas of light malts and notes of honey, light spice. Flavor is similar. Not nearly as complex or robust as I would have liked
Not a weiss or barley wine. Very bland and nothing distinctive. -- rated via 'Find A Beer' for Blackberry 10
Amber colored pour. Small white head. Little bit of lacing. Malty. Not bad. Little grainy.
2013 Bottle. Pours a clear, medium amber, thin white head with mediocre retention and lacing. Nose is hints of barnyard funk, honey, malt, vanilla, wet cardboard. Mouth is medium-full bodied, creamy wheat prevalent on the palate, slick on the tongue, mild sweetness, with caramel, oakiness, vanilla, golden raisins, some light breadiness and tobacco on the finish. I might have to pick up another bottle and see how this ages.
2013 vintage. Pours orange-gold with a minimal white head. Aroma is celery and tomato soup - strange. Taste is very light and mildly sweet spaghetti o’s. My friend says, "it eats better than it fucking drinks". I said, "drink your fucking spaghetti o’s and shut up!".
Addendum:
After further thought (the next day), this one had to be infected. Will give it a second try at some point. Made for great diatribe, though.
Une curiosité qui a attiré mon regard lors de mon plus récent passage en Floride, ce vin d’orge fermenté avec une levure de Weizen, entre autres, est cuivrée et légèrement voilée avec une mousse quasi inexistante. Au nez, ça sent carrément les Werther’s Original avec ses franches arômes de beurre au caramel. La texture en bouche est très épaisse et sirupeuse, le caramel et le malt en abondance étant les acteurs principaux. Vanille et fruits confits sont également de la partie. C’est lourd, c’est cochon et c’est super bon.
Draft at the Sybarite Pig. Snifter pour. Dark brown and slight oily pour. Some small head and lacing throughout. Aroma was deep notes of malts, woody booze, caramel, toffee, vanilla, and fruit. The taste was slightly less complex but good overall. The caramel and toffee faded into a wood barrel booziness at the end. Hints of vanilla, banana, and spices as well. Full body and moderate carbonation. Would love to have another.
Murky golden color and sweet yeasty aroma with a sweet Belgian flavor. A lot of honey long flavor. Pleasant to drink with no bitter hop and a slight fizz on the finish.
12.7oz corked bottle, 2008 vintage, shared by beerpig317. Moderately hazy golden orange color. Lots of yeast particles suspended in the body of my sample. Minimal head, no lace. Light tartness. Moderate sweet, light bitter, light alcohol warmth. Nice wheat base, light lemon citrus. Dry texture. Some notes of oxidization. Bigger body, kind of slick. Lightly soft, lighter carbonation. OK wheat barley. This vintage tastes a bit past it’s prime right now. 7/2/6/3/13
Re-rate from a 2013 bottle, thanks to kammeraj. 5/19/2014: 12.7oz bottle. Clear golden orange color. Thin bubbly white head. Doesn’t leave much lace. Earthy hop, some good bready biscuity malt, light bit of orange citrus. Good moderate bitter taste, moderate sweet, light heat. Smooth, very light carbonation. Lightly slick, light drying finish. Bigger body. Satisfying texture to this, a bit easier drinking. Solid, enjoyable stuff. Reasonably easy drinking. Good hop component still alive here, not too sweet. Yeah, I much prefer this beer fresh.
Bottle. Gold with some gunk. Banana aroma. Sweet caramel and fruit flavor. Nice.
-- rated with beerbasher
Bottle. Honey gold with no head. Toffee and apple aromas. Toffee, dark fruit, vanilla and a hint of booze.
Bottle shared at Dave’s tasting. Pours a hazy golden amber with a thin white head. Pleasant aroma that is slightly tart and sweet at the same time, green apple, honey, and wheat grain. The flavor is similar with the addition of some caramel and a bit of oakiness to the mix. Sort of berliner weiss meats barley wine to my palate, which seems an odd pairing when you consider the great difference in abv of the two styles. The sweetness reminds me of when berliner weiss is served with woodruff syrup, but with the density and mouthfeel of a barley wine. I enjoy both styles, I’m just not sure how I feel about them together in one glass!
Bottle
Thanks again to b3shine for the share one weeknight. This was a strange beast that just did not work out right. Part weiss beer and part barleywine it is a Frankenstein with random things thrown in.
Aroma / Appearance - The cloudy base takes on a warm caramel hue. Flat with no head at all it sits idly. Citrus, pie glaze, wheat, and malt mix a barleywine with hefeweizen roots in a weird blend.
Flavor / Palate - The chewy mouthfeel is no surprise with the high gravity. A distracting cloying nature detracts from an otherwise solid profile. A sugary barleywine tastes slightly fruity and sweet. The blend mostly works but at times is simply too much. Like most Two Brothers beers the result is just short of success.
2008 bottle. Pour is hazy golden with a thin tan head. Aroma is of lemon grass, wheat, booze, and citrus. Flavor is like a mix between a cider and a barley wine - light fruits, apples, yeast, booze, caramel. Medium carbonation.
12.7 oz bottle to tulip (shared with Brigadier). Looks good; a cloudy orange with white lacing. Smells of hefe yeast with notes of caramel, spices, oal, and light fruit, floral, and banana notes. Tastes like it smells with a sweet backbone. Good on the palate. Enjoyable.
Pours light golden. Smells like a lager. The taste is ok. A bit disappointed.
Sampled from a 0.375l corked bottle from 2009 @ Top Hops Bottle Share (BA). It’s really loaded with sediments this, cloudy and golden/orange in color with not much of a head. The nose has lots of cellar notes, it’s fruity and sweet, peaches, lots of apples and white sugar. The taste has again lots of cellar, wood, some sweet apples, green apple zest, woody vanilla hints and some stranger carrots and yeast things in the finish. Oh, not bad at all! 15.06.2013
Poured from 12.7 oz bottle into tulip glass.
Appeared - 2 inch head took a fair amount of time to settle. Color is a medium golden color. Appears to be a bit of yeast sediment
Aroma - is faint but getting some banana , clove, and some peach
Taste - starts off tasting like a hefe as the aroma would indicate. Settles into a bit of fruity sweetness with a crisp finish
Mourhfeel. - carb is a bit low might be due to the age. Its a bit creamy too which I like.
Overall - refreshing summer beer. The alcohol burn hits you a few seconds afterwards but besides that its pretty well hidden. Might pick this up again .
Cloudy dark yellow with minimal foam. Not much aroma. A little malt and hops. Sweet malty taste with some caramel. A little hops with a smooth finish. Thick slippery mouthfeel. Very nice.
Tap at Kickbacks, Jacksonville. It pours hazy golden amber with a small white head. The nose is honey, sweet apple, pear, wheat, dough, light spice, golden syrup and stewed orange. The taste is oily, viscous, wheat, earthy, zesty orange, warming alcohol, spice, pear and melon with a bitter-sweet finish. Medium-full body, fine, prickly carbonation and oily mouth-feel. Decent stuff all-round..... yes it’s too sweet, but still pretty tasty.
Hazy gold pour, thin head, alcohol tinged with citrus aroma. Medium bitterness, lighter bodied barleywine than expected. Strong beer, streamlined on the malts.
Has an interesting banana and clove type flavor not normally found in barleywines. The wheat flavor seems to give it a fuller body. Has an alcoholic burn to it. Might taste better with time, but not a huge fan.
Amber pour with almost no head, some white lacing. Nice carbonation, nose is fruity / floral. Taste is ok, a bit muddled with lots of flavors bouncing around.
375 ml corked and caged green bottle 2011 vintage poured a clear orange amber with a small lasting ivory head. Aromas of wheat, straw, carmel, apple, banana and light clove. Palate was medium to full bodied and smooth. Flavors of wheat, straw, citrus, light clove and light earthiness with a smooth lingering straw finish.