At Toro Canyon Breweries, we follow traditional tried and true brewery methods and use only the freshest grains, hops, and malts. We don’t hide behind bold flavors, we enjoy tasting the subtle flavors that give each beer its unique flavors.

Ingredients. Our ingredients are sourced locally whenever we can, and we also try to do our best to support sustainable growing methods, and recycle all of our materials. We are constantly on the lookout for great new sources, so if you have a grower you love, please send them our way! Also, our beer is made locally and mainly delivered locally, so we don’t include any preservatives (these beers don’t stay in the fridge long…).

Equipment. When we make beer, we want it to only include “beer”. So, we don’t like metal and use glass containers whenever we can. Glass carabiners are limited in size so we typically brew in small batches. We store our beers in amber glassed 1L reclosable bottles, enough for a few glasses among friends, and we have our customers return the bottles in time for the next brew!

Technique. Open flames. Fresh air. We make all of our beers outside. We have to take extra care to keep everything super clean, or super hot. While this limits our product volume, we think it means better flavor. Of course, being in the Texas heat, we need to bring our beers indoors for fermentation. When you want a good steak, do you cook it inside in a pan or outdoor on the grill?

All of this together means that our product is some of the best tasting beer you can find.

Brew Date: May 29, 2020
Style: Chicago IPA
Key Ingredients: English crystal malts, cascade and centennial hops
Release Date: Saturday, June 20, 2020
Drinking window: June 26, 2020 – July 29, 2020

In 1986, the movie Top Gun catapulted to the top of our cult media with the story of fast planes and small words.  The world back then didn’t want nuance, they wanted to win.  Russians bad, Americans kick ass. That simple. 

Well we wanted to win with this fast beer out of the chute. Talk to Me Goose Amber has a bold in your face flavor that has a solid finish and a strong citrus current.  You want subtle flavors? Goto belgium.  You want a big beer? Come to ‘Merica. This beer has big grains and lots of alcohol- at 7.7% ABV it’s got the afterburners you need when you’ve got a tower to buzz.

We made this beer in the style of an Amber Ale because, well, we don’t make IPAs.  But right now it seems every beer drinkin’ work boot wearin’ faux post Mean Eyed Cat modern hipster says they love an IPA.  So instead with give you this brew. Because after a long day of chasing bogies and playing beach volleyball, nothing refreshes like a tall cold glass of Talk to me Goose. Because sometimes you just have the need. The need, for speed. 

Brew Date: May 15, 2020
Style: Modified German Pilsner
Key Ingredients: English crystal malts, cascade and centennial hops
Release Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Drinking window: July 1, 2020 – August 15, 2020

Brewing is a science. But it’s also an art.  Well, this beer is art- abstract art.  In 1947 a young troubled artist named Jackson Pollock dripped some paint on a canvas.  Whether this was deliberate, or a kicked paint can (we believe the latter), Pollock inspired a movement emblematic of the chaos in the world and in his mind.

Like a Pollock, this beer is inspired by the randomness of chance. Its hops and grains are in the traditional pilsner style, but adding the yeast to boiling water is not.  Yet the rescue fermentation provided by a spare Belgian yeast and some handy sourdough starter gives this pilsner its complex favor. This is further enhanced by highly caramelized malt sugars caused by an over-efficient burner. Yet three weeks of slow and cold fermentation have allowed the subtle mixing of these flavors into an amber colored symphony.

Every Pollock painting is unique, just as every batch of Pollock’s Pilsner is unique.  If you ask us to make it again, it will taste subtly different.  But oftentimes accidental chance is the greatest artist.