Oskar Blues / Sun King The Deuce

Brewed by Oskar Blues Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Longmont, Colorado USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Shaker

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Love the grapefruit notes, and the hoppy aftertaste. Nice dark color and a great light caramel head with wonderful aroma

Pint can poured into an imperial pint glass. First off, just let me say that this can is the coolest looking can I have ever seen! Aluminum can shaped more like a sports drink bottle with a wide mouth (think Mickey’s Big Mouth). Great idea for bottling. Pours a dark brown with almost a reddish hue and a small light tan head and a lot of lacing. The hops aroma almost bowls you over upon opening. Very fresh, earthy and floral. Also picking up a decent amount of malts in the aroma, but the hops own this. Smells more like an IIPA. Taste is definitely very different from any other beers I can remember tasting, but that is a good thing. Hops and malt dominate the taste, but both are very well balanced together with neither dominating. But both are STRONG! The hops have a very nice citrusy taste, and the malts are very roasty, with a bit of chocolate on the back end. Very clean, crisp, and dare I say refreshing! Finish is slightly bitter with a long, lingering malt and hops taste. Excellent on the palate! Seriously one of the best balanced beers I have ever had! Nice full body, thick texture, active carbonation. Amazing, wonderful beer here! So sad that this is not going to be around longer. This one definitely has potential to be a 99%er.

Sampled at Rackhouse Pub, Denver CO, on October 10, 2012, during the event Colorado Rare Beer Tasting
Very dark red color, tan head. Sweet, hoppy scent. Hoppy, citrus taste. Smooth mouthfeel, medium bitterness.

Pours a very pretty dark dark amber. Aroma is of chocolate, hazelnut, caramel, chestnut. Aroma is fantastic. Tastes of roasted nuts and earth and bitter hops. Palate is extremely nice.

Al pint bottle. Extremely complex hops - pine, hay, orange peel, and caramel malt aroma. Dark brown with small head. Sweet toffee malt and moderately bitter herbal orange peel flavor. Nice body. Tasty - really like the hops in this.

First off, I’ve got to say that I really love this resealable can design. I can pour as much as I want, save the rest for later. Perfect if I’m not sure how much beer I’m feeling up to drinking at the moment (turns out that didn’t end up mattering, because this stuff was freakin’ great). Also, the wide-mouth is icing on the cake if I’m in a situation where I’d have to drink this without a glass, great for pouring too. Graphic is cool, even. Pours a dark brown color, good thin light brown / tan head, leaves very good lace. Nice nose of big earthy piney hops, herbal notes, and chocolate malts. Medium body. Very smooth carbonation. Some smokiness. Good toasty malt, little chocolate. Good dry finish. Long, hoppy and malty aftertaste. Very tasty. Keeps me coming back for more. Really awesome beer. Ended up going through it very quickly, although it was a nice plus that the second half of the can was virtually just as carbonated as the first.

"Sport-Drink" style pint-can: Deep brown with tall, tan head. Scent is...pine resin...of unexpected strength... This is a different breed, for sure..... An IPA/Brown mix. The brown contributes malt and dark bitters, while the IPA aspects impart strong herbals....and a predominate hop bitter throughout. High "WOW" points for unexpected sensations.

Awesome can from StFun! Pours deep brown with a real nice, persistent cream head. Big, fresh, fruity aroma. Grapefruit is very present alongside some kiwi and mango. Taste brings all those fruits back with a nice, toasty malt backbone. Slightly resiny at first but finishes with a nice sweet dryness. Very awesome!

Can poured a clear dark reddish brown with a small lingering tan head. Aromas of carmel, earthiness, pine, grapefruit and skunk bud. Palate was medium bodied and smooth with a dry finish. Flavors of carmel, cocoa, grapefruitr, skunk bud, pine and roastiness with a smooth dry lingering roasty finish.

Can from Bine & Vine. Pours fairly dark brown with a slight beige head. There’s a roast malt aroma but the pine/citrus is dominant. Maybe even just citrus cause it’s sort of cat pee. Med body minus. There’s "brown" malt, but the hop is definitely cat pee. It’s not harsh. It’s just cat pee. Damn but it finishes not quite smoothly bitter, and leaves the mouth lightly coated with ...