Twin Sisters Double IPA

I learned some sign language working in a beer store. There was a new girl hired who was hot but hard to communicate with. She had a massive hearing aide that didn't do much good, so she could only understand me if she was looking at my lips. I was always shouting at her to no effect and constantly surprising her because she couldn't hear me coming up behind her. One day we were looking at the Left Hand beers and she got excited. She started flashing her hands around. She explained she was signing "left." Left Hand's Sawtooth Ale has sign language on the label. She taught me more sign language after that. Hello, good night, that sort of thing. She didn't stick around for too long and my sign language got rusty. The last time I used sign language, I inadvertently asked a woman if she wanted to make out all night. The gaff ended my dabbles in sign language.

The Twin Sisters are identical mountains on Colorado's Front Range and the namesake of Left Hand's Double IPA. I'm not much for the Rocky Mountain tributes unless it's concerning Jackson Ho. I'm more interested in finding the other three sisters from the Left Hand logo. The twins are big gals and weight in at 9.8% abv according to the bottle.

This is the second time I've sipped the Twin Sisters. The one I'm drinking now was brewed two years ago. Since then, it's sat in my "beer cellar" (AKA the cardboard box of beer in my closet) for two years. My first glass of the aged Twins was lovely. There were strong hints of creamy oak followed by dark chocolate flavors reminiscent of a barely wine. There was little hop aroma and flavor in the aged version, The hop bitterness remained in the finish but with more harmony than a younger ale. It was crazy hopped in flavor and aroma the first time around. My old notes indicate a piney hop aroma similar to the Maharaja coupled with a soft body like the Houblon Chouffe. The aged version is still light of body for such a big beer but it tastes more like a barely wine than double IPA.