Fullsteam Brewery

Microbrewery in Durham, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Fullsteam Brewery (Fullsteam R & D Tavern)

Established in 2010

Contact
726 Rigsbee Ave, Durham, NC, 27701, United States
Description
We launched Fullsteam in 2010 with a single mission: to explore what it means to be a Southern brewery. Sometimes that definition means brewing with foraged and farmed adjuncts. Other times it means making innovative beers with local grain. And sometimes it means just making true-to-style beers more Southern in temperament.

In our nearly ten years focused on this mission, Fullsteam has purchased more than $500,000 in Southern-farmed ingredients. We track our commitment to the Southern Beer Economy in our monthly farm reports.

Whether it’s the beer we brew, the food we cook, or the events we host, we believe in connecting people to the land and to one another. And through it all, we aim to keep it fun. Beer should be fun.

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7

Clear brown body with a small foamy tan. Earthy roast and chocolate aroma. roast, ash and chocol flav. Med full bod mod carb. 8/4/7/3/16 3.7

Tried from Draft on 25 Feb 2017 at 15:38


7

Hazy golden body with a large foamy white. Perfumy and floral aroma. Perfumy and floral flavor. Med bod mod carb. 7/2/7/3/15 3.4

Tried from Draft on 25 Feb 2017 at 15:35


8

Dark black body thin tan head. Roast and chocolate aroma. Roast, ash, and chocolate flavor. Med full bod mod carb. 8/5/8/4/16 4.1

Tried from Draft on 25 Feb 2017 at 15:28


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft at Salud. Opaque brown color, thin brown head. Earthy coffee aroma. Taste is earthy coffee. OK.

Tried from Draft on 21 Feb 2017 at 18:43


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Clear golden and copper coloured body with a nice, single centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of caster sugar, light hops, a touch of malt and some pine and citrusey notes as well. Medium-bodied; Strong piney and grapefruity flavours at first with a nice dose of malt to balance out the pungent hops, coupled with some light caramel and sweetness near the end. Aftertaste shows more flavours with fruit, pine, grain and a bit of cereal coming through at the tail end. Overall, a nice IPA with some good flavours and still enough hops to be considered a real IPA, along with a smooth balance of malt. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from Total Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 15-November-2016 for US$2,64 sampled at home in Washington on 01-February-2017.

Tried from Can on 03 Feb 2017 at 13:18


7.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8.5

Walnut, persimmon, and honey nose, kind of a neat bakalava thing happening. Clear brown, thin head. Walnut, tart apple, oak, and honey. Light body, moderate carbonation. My experience with this style is limited thus far, but this comes the closest to what I envision the style should represent. Tons of personality and quite enjoyable. A good salad course beer.

Tried on 08 Jan 2017 at 22:54


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Tallboy can from Wine Warehouse. Hazy yellow, large foamy white head, decent retention. Aroma of strong, spicy basil and white bread. The taste is spicy basil, thyme, mustard, pale malt. Almost pickle juice. Thin, refreshing, but will get tiresome.

Tried from Can on 27 Dec 2016 at 22:43


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

This was at Churchkey? Holy cow! Well, I had it at the source. Brown color, beige head. Roasty aroma. Taste is boozy but plain.

Tried on 09 Dec 2016 at 20:17


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft at the source. Hazy brownish amber color. Nice spicebush aroma. Just kidding, I have no clue what spicebush is. I do get the pepper and the citrus. Interesting anyway.

Tried from Draft on 09 Dec 2016 at 20:13


6.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Draft at the source. Cloudy yellow color, scant head. Citrus aroma. Taste is peppery straw, soft sourness. OK.

Tried from Draft on 09 Dec 2016 at 20:09