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Fullers ESB (Bottle/Keg) 3.63 1537

Fullers ESB (Bottle/Keg)

Percentile
93
overall
Brewed by Fullers
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB

London, England

bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
15373.63/5.03.63/5.05.9%99.1English pint
Commercial Description:
Bottle & keg (USA); Pasteurised.
First brewed in 1971. Ingredients: Pale Ale malt, Crystal malt and Maize; Target, Challenger, Northdown and Goldings hops.
Brewed at 5.5% ABV in cask and 5.9% ABV in bottle, ESB is a true liquid legend, and should be savoured as such.
ESB has a wonderful rich mahogany appearance. Taking in the nose, the beer is bursting with cherry and orange, balanced by soft malty toffee and caramel notes. The flavour delivers everything you would expect from such a full-bodied ale. The unique blend of Northdown, Target, Challenger and Goldings hops imparts grassy, peppery notes on the tongue along with intense citrus fruit characters of grapefruits, oranges and lemons. The blend of Pale Ale and Crystal malts in the brew give a biscuity, toffee element to the beer. A smooth, mellow bitterness lingers on the palate to give a superbly satisfying finish.
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 mcberko (171), British Columbia, Canada
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/104/515/20
Dec 18, 2009  
500mL bottle, pours a hazy copper / pale brown with a medium off-white head. Aroma is malts, citrus hops and orange peel. Flavour is malty with a smooth bitter aftertaste. Great beer.


 Toxygen (380), Sanford, Florida, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/58/104/513/20
Dec 11, 2009    Updated: Dec 12, 2009
(br-btl, bk-lbl, "World’s Original ESB", 5.9%)
cpr-lct , ^co2, §head, med bod,

T1 malty fresh fruity
T2 bitter
T3 hoppy
pretty clean except maybe a little diacetyl


Coxy (9), Bedfordshire, England
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4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/102/59/104/518/20
Dec 9, 2009  
A world award winning beer from Fullers. This is one of nicest beers I have had in a long time, and is no doubt better in cask. It has such a complex full bodied taste with a lovely mix of fruit sweet and spice and with the aroma. The brewery describe a marmalade taste but you get hints of cherry, orange, slight pepper, and sort of a malty butterscotch/caramel. It uses a whole host of hops from Northdown, Target, Challenger, and Goldings. The smoothness full bodied beer works so well and is mighty fine to drink.


 jcwattsrugger (5581), Florida and, New Jersey, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Dec 8, 2009  
@Mr Pickwicks VT-on tap-pours an offwhite head and amber color. Aroma is light malt, ‘pilsner’ hops-saaz/Hallertau. Fruit with a twang-lemon.


Finhead (99), Illinois, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Dec 6, 2009  
A hazy copper to light brown pour with a medium off-white head. The aroma is peppery with some citrus hops. The taste is slightly bitter and grassy up front, but it finishes rather dull.


 mike1977ok (648), Netherlands
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/517/20
Dec 6, 2009  
Pale brown. Aroma is floral, sweet, fruity. Flavour has a strong, sweet fruitiness with orange and apple certainly coming through. Sweet from the fruit, a little hop bitterness. A great easy to drink but full flavoured beer.


 jimmay (229), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/517/20
Nov 21, 2009  
500 ml can. Pours skarkling copper in colour, with decent amost white head. Aroma is grassy, slightly bitter. Taste is slightly sweet, biscuity, with a citrusy hop finish. Good ESB!


PWheatley (48), , Quebec, Canada
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/58/103/516/20
Nov 20, 2009  
50 cl bottle stored at cellar temp (13C). Pours with a nice head which quickly dissipated. The aroma is malt and little hops. Taste is nice with a tasty bitter finish. No lacing, but that could be the glass. I will be buying this one more often.



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