El Toro William Jones Wheat Beer

Brewed by El Toro Brewing Co.
Style: Wheat Ale
Morgan Hill, California USA

Light golden color with a smallish white fluffy head. Aroma and flavors of honey and light apples dominate and take away from the malt and hops. Why gum up the mash, if you aren’t going to use a proper yeast?

Pours a crystal clear golden with minimal head. Arome is sweet saspirilla (?) and a hint of wheat. Flavor is light clove, wheat and banana. Transparent mouthfeel, light sticky texture. Finishes somewhat more citric.

Cloudy gold color. Smells like cereal. Flavor is a bitter lemon bite upfron with a lingering wheaties flavor. I could see this being a nice thirst quencher.

From a 12 oz. bottle with no freshness date. Poured a hazy yellowish golden with a large foamy, fluffy white head, good retention, plenty of ringed sticking. Aromas of a bread powdery, lemon honey and a very light spiciness. Good carbonation and a crisp, smooth medium-light bodied mouthfeel. Kind of bland tasting, lemon bubble gum, a bland wheat grassy, a soft spice hoppiness towards the end and a dry malty finish. A passable wheat ale, but not one I would want on a regular basis, can’t see myself drinking more than two bottles of this without becoming bored.

Appearance: Pours a very light, clear yellow body with a decent white head. Smell: Faint aroma of lemons, wheat, and even less spicy hops. Taste: Exeptionally faint toasted wheat flavor with a light sweetness. The finish, if you can really call it that, has only the lightest touch of hops. Mouthfeel: Light-bodied. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: Pretty dull and lackluster even for an American Wheat Ale.

Date: 08/19/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Ticker Tasting

hazy pale yellow, fine white head, drippy lace, light tart aroma with a faint lemony character, light wheat flavor with a hint of malty sweetness balanced by wheat tartness,

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 4/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 8/20
Rating: 2.2/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *+/4

12 oz bottle. Pours a slightly hazy gold body with a one finger fizzy white head that left some sparce lacing. Fairly light aroma with a bit too much diacetyl for my tastes. Some light wet hay and murky yeast. Too much diacetyl on the flavor as well, not too much else really. Some lightly tart wheat and light yeastiness. Light bodied with a slightly sticky buttery finish and moderate fizzy carbonation. Overall, this was pretty bad. A heavily flawed beer.

Clear, golden and headless with typical American Standard aromas, this is an American Wheat. Taste is slightly sweet and malty with significant bitter. Finish is blunt and clean. Some interesting bandage flavors but I was expecting more from the Bill Jones signature beer. El Toro is quietly building itself into a West Coast brewing powerhouse but this beer is no evidence of that.