Placebo Effect
Tox Brewing Company
- From:
- Tox Brewing Company
- Connecticut, United States
- Style:
- Cream Ale
- ABV:
- 5.4%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.83 | pDev: 9.92%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Apr 18, 2026
- Added:
- Apr 20, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
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We love our fancy craft beer like family, but sometimes even we just want to enjoy some yellow fizzy stuff. This is our signature cream ale made with the simplest grains and corn (yes, corn). Meeting the style guidelines of a traditional pre-prohibition US Cream Ale, this is one of two beer styles that was truly invented in America. This cream ale holds a place in our hearts as the most drinkable beer we've been able to concoct. It's great for a day of mowing your lawn, a round of flip cup, or kicking back on game day.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by woodchipper from Connecticut
3.67/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev -4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Purchased cold at the brewery yesterday and kept cold until served. Poured from a 16oz can dated 09/10/25 to a Nonic.
The white head is creamy and about 1in/25mm tall. That fades to a single coat in just a few minutes. Lacing is a brief full coat that falls down and leaves sparse spiders. The medium gold body is about SRM 4-5. There is a slight chill-haze but continuous nucleation bubbles are visible.
The aroma is mild cracker with some tangy notes.
The front end of the taste is slightly creamed corn (DMS?) but not off-putting. However that is soon forgotten as the finish is pretty hoppy and dry for the style.
The mouthfeel is light with subtle oiliness. Carbonation is good but not aggressive.
Not bad for 7-months in the can.
Apr 18, 2026The white head is creamy and about 1in/25mm tall. That fades to a single coat in just a few minutes. Lacing is a brief full coat that falls down and leaves sparse spiders. The medium gold body is about SRM 4-5. There is a slight chill-haze but continuous nucleation bubbles are visible.
The aroma is mild cracker with some tangy notes.
The front end of the taste is slightly creamed corn (DMS?) but not off-putting. However that is soon forgotten as the finish is pretty hoppy and dry for the style.
The mouthfeel is light with subtle oiliness. Carbonation is good but not aggressive.
Not bad for 7-months in the can.
Reviewed by CTHomer from Connecticut
3.92/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
A: crystal clear; medium gold in color; with a fairly aggressive pour, a 1 finger white head that receded to a moderate collar; OK lacing;
S: floral and orange;
T: follows the nose from start to finish; mild to moderate bitterness at the end;
M: light to medium bodied; light to moderate carbonation; dry finish;
O: easy drinking and refreshing; I was expecting to taste corn, so this was a pleasant surprise; carbonation was much lower than is appropriate for this style;
Sep 27, 2025S: floral and orange;
T: follows the nose from start to finish; mild to moderate bitterness at the end;
M: light to medium bodied; light to moderate carbonation; dry finish;
O: easy drinking and refreshing; I was expecting to taste corn, so this was a pleasant surprise; carbonation was much lower than is appropriate for this style;
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
3.6/5 rDev -6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.6/5 rDev -6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Canned on 1/29/20
Pours a translucent honeyed burnt orange body topped with a short-lived ¼ finger of off-white froth; head recedes almost immediately to minimal collar and cap, and virtually no lasting lacing.
Aroma offers a flowing harmony of honeycomb and fresh pumpernickel bread upfront before easing into a mishmash featuring a smooth dosing of moderate sweet grains, flaky apple pie crust, and stiff grassy hops for a tone both robustly sweet and earthy; mushy apple peel rounds out the close.
Taste brings out grassy honeycomb backed with sweet grains at the forefront before flambéed orange zest and mushy apple bring earthy fruit tones to the mid-palate; sweet grains resume prominence on the back end, highlighting toasted corn husk (along with faint metallic tones) into the finish.
Mouthfeel has an expectedly light body with a carbonation on the lower end of moderate; remains semi-stiff and mostly dry across the palate; embraces a slight wetness near the finish, though a rounded crisp and subtle prickle stave off an overt thinness in the finish.
Maintaining the bevy of eclectic notes that continually establish my affinity for the style, this brew in particular falters with a resoundingly Inconsistent structure; it has the elements/potential of a great cream ale, but just lacks the focus to bring it beyond simply decent drinking.
Apr 01, 2020Pours a translucent honeyed burnt orange body topped with a short-lived ¼ finger of off-white froth; head recedes almost immediately to minimal collar and cap, and virtually no lasting lacing.
Aroma offers a flowing harmony of honeycomb and fresh pumpernickel bread upfront before easing into a mishmash featuring a smooth dosing of moderate sweet grains, flaky apple pie crust, and stiff grassy hops for a tone both robustly sweet and earthy; mushy apple peel rounds out the close.
Taste brings out grassy honeycomb backed with sweet grains at the forefront before flambéed orange zest and mushy apple bring earthy fruit tones to the mid-palate; sweet grains resume prominence on the back end, highlighting toasted corn husk (along with faint metallic tones) into the finish.
Mouthfeel has an expectedly light body with a carbonation on the lower end of moderate; remains semi-stiff and mostly dry across the palate; embraces a slight wetness near the finish, though a rounded crisp and subtle prickle stave off an overt thinness in the finish.
Maintaining the bevy of eclectic notes that continually establish my affinity for the style, this brew in particular falters with a resoundingly Inconsistent structure; it has the elements/potential of a great cream ale, but just lacks the focus to bring it beyond simply decent drinking.
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