Year-round beers
WORKERS’ COMPENSATION: Southern Social Beers
Fullsteam’s Workers’ Compensation beers are our year-round, easy-drinking Southern ales and lagers. Beers you could drink a few of in the course of an evening, without denting your pocketbook…or your head.
Sometimes you don’t want the earth to be shattered. You just want a beer.
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“Complex in its simplicity, this is a great everyday session beer.” – Menuism, 15 Beers To Try Before You DieCall it “Southern Lager” or even “Lager” if you like, but we simply call this beer “Fullsteam.” Our eponymous beer is quaffable yet complex, particularly for a lager. Caramel in color, with a woodsy aroma and biscuity malts. 5.3% ABV |
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We break craft beer convention by unabashedly brewing beer with corn. El Toro is a lager-like classic cream ale — yet another American original. This easy-drinking “beer beer” has a 100% North Carolina grain bill (90% Riverbend Malthouse six-row barley, 10% Lakeside Farms corn grits). 4.0% ABV |
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North Carolina is the largest U.S. producer of sweet potatoes. In our quest to work with local Southern ingredients as much as possible, the humble sweet potato is an obvious choice. Perhaps less obvious: our decision to avoid cloying spices that would only serve to mask the savory-yet-delicate flavors. Why “Carver?” It’s our small tribute to the amazing Southern environmental scientist and farmer, Doctor George Washington Carver. While he may be better known for his work with peanuts, Carver was also passionate about the sweet potato. 250 pounds of local sweet potatoes per batch (one-third of the base fermentables). 4.5% ABV |
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A tribute to the Southern tradition of an RC Cola and a MoonPie. We brew Working Man’s Lunch beer with biscuity malts, vanilla, and chocolate nibs from Raleigh’s own Escazu Artisan Chocolates. We get a little zany and brew with a German Weizen (Weihenstephan) yeast strain to impart estery banana notes. The dark beer for ’round the year! 5.5% ABV |
OTHER YEAR-ROUND BEERS
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BREWED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CACKALACKY™
Launched in January 2013 — at first only at our tavern, then on draft, and ultimately in cans! Cack-a-lacky™ Ginger Pale Ale is refreshing, hoppy, and zippy. |
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Brewed with Centennial and Amarillo hops, Rocket Science is a smooth-but-citrusy American IPA that’s both bitter and refreshing. Is it a West Coast IPA, full of tongue-bracing, enamel stripping hops? No. It actually pairs well with food and doesn’t destroy your palate. A refreshing, well-structured, enjoyable IPA that embodies the nuance of the American South? Why it IS Rocket Science!. 6.8% ABV |
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BREWED EXCLUSIVELY FOR BEASLEY’S CHICKEN + HONEY, RALEIGHBeasley’s Honey White is an unfiltered white ale brewed with Bee Blessed Pure Honey, North Carolina oats, and Tellicherry black pepper. Quite refreshing on its own, the beer truly shines with fried chicken breast, pork, local cheeses, or spicy dishes. For the ultimate pairing, have it on tap at Beasley’s Chicken + Honey! Available on-tap at Beasley’s and Fullsteam R&D only; in bottles by the summer. 5.5% ABV |
Explore our seasonal Apothecary and Forager series.
Great to hear about a new brewery in NC with fresh ideas and new beers to try. We will be sure to track your progress and look forward to trying the beer. Stuart and Naomi, Fuquay NC
I am intrigued by your new line of beers. Will your creations be available for retail sale in Ohio? Always looking for a new taste sensation. Or maybe I should just pay you all a visit when I am visiting my friend down your way. Start brewin’ cuz I’ll bring friends. John M Sagamore Hills OH
[...] list of their beers (”Control” and “Experiment“) makes me hope they find that building ASAP. I also really [...]
As a homebrewer, ecologist, NC-product enjoy-er, mountain biker, and all-around “dude who likes tasty stuff but especially beer” I’m pleased to see positive progress from you guys! Good luck and hope to be able to try your beers soon!
keeping “Your Lightest Beer” as the name may be gimmicky but man sales will be thru the roof. That or bartenders will be pissed by having to constantly ask do you want our lightest beer or “Your Lightest Beer.” That will of course launch them into a who’s on first dialog which I will enjoy as much as my El Toro.
The moonpie and RC cola sounds like a good one. Just add a little salted peanut flavor, and you’re there. I grew up pouring Lance salted peanuts into my RC Cola.
I know El Toro is a spring and summer seasonal but I sure would drink more of your beer if it were available all year. Glad to see you are currently working on a new batch of El Toro.
Great to see you today, Stan! Soon we will indeed have El Toro always available on-tap at the brewery. And growlers, too.
[...] plow-to-pint agricultural brewery in Durham, NC, offering up some very unique flavors between his Workers’ Compensation Series and the Southern Apothecary Series. I mean: MOON PIE BEER, people. [...]
All I can say is “wow”!!! Tried my first Fullsteam at Lucky 32 in Raleigh on a recent visit trip. Sweet Potato beer scared me at first…but it was one of the best locally brewed beers I’ve had in ages and I’ve been all over the country! Now, if you would only stock some t-shirts so that I can wear one proudly here in PA.
[...] and husks to Fullsteam Brewery to make their “Working Man’s Lunch” session beer (read more about that bear here). They also sell the nibs and husks to the public for homebrewing. This summer when it’s [...]
[...] Discussions surrounding brewing consistency are voluminous. From the book Standards of Brewing: A Practical Approach to Consistency and Excellence by Dr. Charles Bamforth to rampant homebrewing forums, you could argue that consistency is the fifth ingredient in beer (never mind that brewers would say it’s star anise, truffle salt or grits). [...]
[...] pounds of local sweet potatoes ber batch, the 5.8% ABV Carver is part of Fullsteam’s “Workers’ Compensation“ series, which intends to be “easy-drinking, everyday session [...]
Do you ever have El Toro in a growler?
I shop at the Hillsborough Weaver st and don’t think I have seen it there?
Jim – we sell El Toro growlers. Weaver Street in Hillsborough carries them; if you don’t see them, ask Richard or Deborah if they have the beer in-stock. Cheers, and thank you!
Thanks just picked one up there, it was hiding on the shelf LOL
[...] anything, because what could the poor man say about a crazy swimsuit rant? But then we got beers (Moon Pie beers!) and considered the task at hand: to make the tallest tower we could, out of spaghetti and teeny [...]
LOVE El Toro. Favorite beer beer ever. Seen it on tap in a few places, but do you sell the growlers anywhere in Raleigh?
[...] it was awesome. Chris was disappointed in his lackluster burger, but my BLT on Texas Toast with a Fullsteam Carver was basically the perfect [...]
[...] nodded sideways, perhaps searching the Fullsteam website in his mind, where a description of the Workingman’s Lunch proclaims it as a “tribute to the Southern tradition of [...]
[...] on. My initial priority was to snag a beer. Fullsteam Brewery in Durham was there pouring Fullsteam Southern Lager and the delicious “Summer Basil” Farmhouse Ale. I settled on the ale. Also pouring [...]
[...] affectionately calling the “Non-Working Man’s Hopnog” in a nod to one of my favorite Fullsteam brews, Working Man’s Lunch; the brews aren’t remotely similar, but the name couldn’t be passed up). I don’t [...]
[...] Working Man's Lunch that uses a chocolate stout/brown ale malt base with Weihenstephan yeast. http://www.fullsteam.ag/beer/workers-comp/ It's quite tasty with both chocolate stout and hefe banana character. The imperial version is 8.5% [...]
[...] Their basket included a Videri Pink Peppercorn chocolate bar, Larry’s Beans coffee, Fullsteam Brewery’s Working Man’s Lunch, A Southern Season homemade marshmallows, and a crock of Angus Barn’s famous Cheddar Cheese [...]
[...] Iron. Brined in brown ale, brown butter sweet potatoes, river cress, molasses lacquer, paired with Fullsteam "Carver Sweet Potato" . The Dessert • Milk Stout Apples. Caramel churned ice cream, flaky pastry, duck fat caramel, [...]