El Toro Deuce

Brewed by El Toro Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Morgan Hill, California USA

Draft @ Toronado, SF. Pours a slightly hazy orange color with a small white head. Has a malty hoppy bitter piney aroma with some hints of citrus. Malty hoppy bitter pine needles flavor. Has a long bitter hoppy finish with a long bitter aftertaste. Awesome!!

This beer is Fantastic. It is my favorite beer It won the 2003 Alpha King Challenge a competition to find the hoppiest most balanced beer. Which is the competition for "Hop Heads" So balanced, clean, flavorful and drinkable. Pungent sweet hoppy aroma with toasty caramel notes. Clear shimmering medium amber very enticing. Flavor is perfect. Bitter, piney, sweet caramel malty. Seek out and find this beer you will not be sorry. If you want to grab this beer on tap with me send me an email.

Had a sample at the brewery, than bought a 6 pack. Poured a nice golden amber color with a nice frothy head that went flat quickly.There was more of a nose on the draft than the bottle. Flowers and fruit. Big hop taste with a hint of evergreen (pine spruce). Better at the brewery than in the bottle! Overall a very good beer.

Tap. Hazy nutmeg color with beautifully-laced head. Nose is floral and citrusy. Taste is delicious with a great malt/hop balance. It’s like eating my favoriate breakfast cereal and drinking my favorite beer at the same time. Palate is malt that transitions into an admirable malt hoppiness.

On draft at Toronado SF. Appearance is a translucent murky orange hue, thin layer of white creamy head, sticky lacing on the glass. Smell is pine resin, sweet citrus, cotton candy, touch of mustiness. Taste is bitter pine resin and grapefruit dominated hops, orange and lemons creep in with some grassy hops, cotton candy bubblegum appears near the end, finishes bitter and resiny. Palate is medium-bodied, big thick oily resin texture, biting carbonation. Overall, a nice sticky and resiny hop bomb with a nice balance of sweet citrus and candy sweetness, the finish is a touch too harsh.

A- Golden in color with a small eggshell head that fades and leaves a little lacing. S- Smells extremely hoppy. Grainy pine scents dominate the nose. T- Piney hops are prevalent from start to finish with a bitter kick. Grainy bready taste masked beneath the hops. M- Thick and chunky with a blast of carbonation that compliments the hoppy bitterness perfectly. D- Definitely a sipper but certainly very drinkable for a double ipa.

Draft at Toronado. Hazy amber, pretty good lacing and retention. Aroma is very fruity with overripe fruits, some grass, caramel. Flavor matches, moderate to high bitterness, alcohol hidden well. A little bit of that creamy drinkability I remember from their BW.

Tap @ Tornado, 1/4/08. Porus amber orange with an off white head. Nose is sweet and hoppy. Taste is sweet and hoppy with a resin taste. Pretty good.