El Toro
Fullsteam Brewery
- From:
- Fullsteam Brewery
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- Cream Ale
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- 80
- Avg:
- 3.45 | pDev: 14.49%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 12
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 14, 2016
- Added:
- Jul 06, 2010
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
80
Good
80
Good
El Toro is a distinctly Southern, true-to-style American Cream Ale brewed with 100% North Carolina barley and corn grits.
Inspired by our home city of Durham, this clean, crisp, and bright beer is welcoming and unpretentious.
Sometimes all you want is a cold beer. This no-frills "beer beer" just happens to use all North Carolina-farmed grain.
Inspired by our home city of Durham, this clean, crisp, and bright beer is welcoming and unpretentious.
Sometimes all you want is a cold beer. This no-frills "beer beer" just happens to use all North Carolina-farmed grain.
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Reviewed by ordybill from Georgia
3/5 rDev -13%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -13%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Poured from the tap at the brewery into a pint glass. The appearance is a clear pale yellow color with zero head. The aroma is faint grain and corn. The taste is very weak flavored corn meal. An average beer.
Nov 14, 2016
Reviewed by NateDyk47 from Michigan
3.52/5 rDev +2%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev +2%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Had this as part of a flight at Fullsteam Brewery.
Look: light golden color, thin white head, no lacing
Smell: buttered bread? & corn
Taste: sweet & creamy, but overall taste is a little more on the mild side than I would've liked
Feel: creamy & smooth, light body & carbonation
Overall: pleasant & easy to drink, but I probably wouldn't have it again.
Feb 13, 2016Look: light golden color, thin white head, no lacing
Smell: buttered bread? & corn
Taste: sweet & creamy, but overall taste is a little more on the mild side than I would've liked
Feel: creamy & smooth, light body & carbonation
Overall: pleasant & easy to drink, but I probably wouldn't have it again.
Reviewed by mothmanscott from Georgia
4.08/5 rDev +18.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.08/5 rDev +18.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Pours a chill hazed deep straw that clears as the brew warms producing 1.5 fingers of white, foamy, somewhat lived head that leaves a wash of streaky lace. Quite a bit of effervescence coming from the bottom of the goblet. Aroma is not as thin as most cream ales that I have tried. The nose is comprised of biscuity malt, hints of corn & grain, banana, vanilla, honey & lemon. Taste is a more robust version of the nose with a few additions & is not nearly as delicate as my previous experience with cream ales. Having a sweeter character than the nose, comprised of biscuit & cracker malt, corn sweetness, something wheat like, banana, honey, dried apple & lemon notes with a peppery finish. Afrertaste is faint honey-lemon, again wheat & banana with a very subdued but lingering bitterness. Mouthfeel is light-medium bodied with high carbonation producing an acidic/alkaline, sandpaper prickly bite, lightly creamy, dry & crisp. The most robust example of a cream that I have had to date. Taste like a Cream Ale/Hefeweizen hybrid. Not bad & a pleasant surprise. Touche Fullsteam!
Nov 13, 2015
Rated by ProstMasterson from Virginia
4.17/5 rDev +20.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.17/5 rDev +20.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Crisp and clean, well done offering for style. Perfect for the summer
May 20, 2015
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
3.55/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Clear gold body with only surface islands for a head. Sweet corn, white bread, grains and has a hint of grass. Taste is so bland: grains and malt, fine building blocks for a cream ale but you want some depth. Feel doesn't help sell, more bready than anything, want some malt creaminess with a crisp finish, didn't get either.
Oct 13, 2014
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