Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø, the founder and man behind Evil Twin Brewing, was a physics and English teacher in his native Denmark before starting Copenhagen’s Ølbutikken, a highly regarded beer store. He’s also an evil twin himself. His brother, Mikkel Borg Bergsø, brews under the Mikkeller label. Jarnit-Bjergsø, however, has done his best to outshine the good twin. He founded Evil Twin as a nomadic brewery on April 1st, 2010, the same day his second son was born, marking a significant milestone in his brewing journey. Like his brother Mikkel, Jarnit-Bjergsø would concoct a recipe for his beer and hand it to another brewery with some extra capacity. This contracted brewing partner brewed, bottled, priced, and sold the beer, then cut Jarnit-Bjergsø a check. Evil Twin beers were brewed everywhere from South Carolina and Scotland to Holland and Denmark. In 2012, Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø moved it to Brooklyn and relocated there with his family, opening the beer bar TØRST the same year. Today, Peaks and Pints presents a flight of Evil Twin imperial beers in what we call Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Imperial Evil Twin.
Peaks & Pints Beer Flight: Imperial Evil Twin
Evil Twin This Deli Needs A Bigger Double Kiwi Lime Coconut Muffin Lassi Gose – Marshmallow Treatment
7% ABV
Collaborating with fellow Scandinavian brewery Omnipollo, the brewers started with a tangy sour base before hitting it with a pinch of sea salt. Then they layered the beer with kiwi, coconut, and lime and rounded it all out with marshmallow and milk sugar. Expect ripe kiwi, cooling colada cream, marshmallow, zippy citrus, and a touch of gose minerality on the finish.
Evil Twin Even More Straight Outta The Marshmallow Lab
10.2% ABV
Collaboration with Equilibrium Brewery, this milkshake triple IPA is hopped with Citra and brewed heavily with marshmallow for orange popsicles, cream, and tropical fruit flavors.
Evil Twin Imperial Biscotti Break
11.5% ABV
Once you’ve started the day with a few biscotti dunkers, you’ll probably not be getting much work done anyhow. Might as well start drinking, huh? Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø contract brewed at Westbrook Brewing in South Carolina before moving his Evil Twin brewery to New York City. At Westbook, he brewed his Imperial Biscotti Break, a gourmet imperial stout brimming with vanilla, coffee, almond, and chocolate notes. This beer starts with a strong scent of dark chocolate and dark fruit. The fruit isn’t present in the taste, but there is plenty of dark cocoa and roasted bitter coffee, all with a rich coating of nuttiness. When you’re using flavors such as chocolate, coffee, and almond, it can be very easy to have a beer that is too cloying or tastes artificial, but that is not at all the case with this beer.
Evil Twin Even More Jesus
12% ABV
The name Even More Jesus came about when Jarnit-Bjergsø was discussing something about prices with a business partner, and they were sending emails back and forth, and one of the prices was high, and Jarnit-Bjergsø wrote, “Jesus, this is expensive.” And then he quoted another price, which was even more expensive, and wrote, “even more Jesus.” And the business partner’s reply was, “I don’t care how expensive it is, the next beer you make has to be called Even More Jesus.” The imperial stout is sweet with burnt sugar, brownie, fudge, and chocolate cake frosting. The body is insanely dense with an oily, palate-coating effect. The mid-palate is nicely bitter with dark chocolate, but caramel and molasses stick around.
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