UPDATED: JUL 28, 2021 Aroma of malts, grain, rye bread, dark dried fruits and plums Brown amber with no head Taste is dates, dark fruits, plums and prunes Low carbonation with smooth mouthfeel Excellent beer! Tasted at skaal with anders

UPDATED: APR 12, 2021 A quite malty aroma, light sour, raisins The small white foamy head has a normal duration, the body is dark brown. A malty taste, chocolate, light touch of soy sauce, not bad for such an old one. The body is medium strong, creamy with a rather flat carbonation.

UPDATED: FEB 20, 2021 Bottle. Hazy pale brown. No head. It's really sweet and oxidized on the nose. Smells past its prime. Tastes like it too. Sweet, lightly fruity, and oxidized. Should have consumed a while back!

UPDATED: APR 12, 2020 Fuller's Vintage Ale 2008: Aroma; dried plum, caramel, nutty bark, herbs n spices, prune, clove, toffee. Look; dense fawn-beige head, deep golden to reddish apricottish clear body. Taste; dried plums, apricot jam, caramel, green herb, clove, caramellized bark, prune, toffee fudge, and finishes sweet and wellbodied. Feel; solid body, soft co², dry moments. Overall; this tasty ale must be enjoyed slowly. [50cl. embossed bottle N°61016 8.5% BBF°2018 B@Kvickly]

500ml bottle, drunk in 2013. Clear, deep amber with an offwhite head. Aroma of toasted malt, caramel, vanilla, birch, shortbread and light residual perfumed hops. Sweet malty flavours, with toffee, dates, fruit cake and peal notes.

UPDATED: APR 12, 2019 Bottle at lcbf. Medium tan blend. Scent is big licorice and fruit pulp. Taste is big melon raspberry flavors on old ale. Finish is clean and dry ale. Very great.

UPDATED: DEC 28, 2018 500ml bottle, No. 59562. Pours dark brown amber with a reddish tinge, a beige foamy head leaving alittle lacing and aroma of molasses, toffee, dried fruits. Taste is sweet malty, molasses, brown sugar, caramel with raisins, christmas cake, leathery, dried fruity, chocolate hints, earthy, boozy and some orangey hop bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry earthy boozy bitter finish. Nicely drinkable.

50cl bottle pours with a clear mahogany colored body that supports a nice looking near white head of foam. The aroma offers up booze infused plums, figs and some dates and cherries as well. Behind the fruitiness is a faint molasses sort of maltiness. The taste delivers smooth blueberry, plum, dates and fig like sweet fruity esters. It thins out to midway as the jamminess recedes a bit to reveal a bit of molasses and chocolate malts. Really nice. I think this vintage is peaking right here at ten years.

February 2018 - Saturday Tasting at Leighton's, Hackney. Bottle shared with big thanks to Mr Frog. As 'Fuller's Vintage Ale 2008', 8.5%, #69770. Pours brown with an orange hue, quite still, foamy beige head leaves dotted lacing. Aroma is biscuity, orange peel, marmalade. Body is smooth with soft carbonation. Taste is orange oil, biscuity, marmalade, faint oxidation but not showing its age like some others I've tried. Rounded malts with nips of bitterness and citrus. Not particularly showy but just a great all-round strong ale. Good. (7-4-8-4-15=3.8)

Bottle shared at Leighton's place 03/02/2018. A clear amber copper coloured pour with a halo of beige head. Aroma is dusty, toffee, amber malts, minty, mellow age, strawberry shortcake. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, toffee, nutty malts, cakey, dried fruit, cake, riasin. Palate si medium sweet, rounded, moderate mellow carbonation, Dusty. I like it. Held up well with the age.