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Fullers ESB (Bottle/Keg) 3.62 1532

Fullers ESB (Bottle/Keg)

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

London, England

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
15323.63/5.03.62/5.05.9%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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 Todeon (315), Sweden
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
May 7, 2008  
Amber color. Aroma is pretty sweet with fruity notes. Flavor is a bit bitter with some fruity notes and a hint of caramell. Mild finish. Much better on draft than bottle.


 TURDFERGUSON (1606), Carrboro, North Carolina, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/513/20
May 4, 2008  
Bottle. Pours a bright, clear, amber with hardly any head or lace. Nose is biscuit malts, bitter hops. Flavor is mild, malty, and bitter. Not my favorite style but I find this to be a nice, very sessionable beer on a sunday afternoon.


 KimJohansen (7131), Copenhagen V, Denmark
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
May 4, 2008  
Clear amber with medium off white head. Sweet aroma with fruity and hoppy notes. Flavor is somewhat malty with caramel and hoppy notes. Mild bitter finish.


 evilsoc (191), Wales
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/517/20
May 3, 2008  
Clear brown and well lacing white head. Spicy and floral german-hop like aroma with caramel malt. really well balanced. Reminds me of Sam Adams Boston lager. finishes nice and dry with a subtle but pleasent hop flavour.


 daknole (3000), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/514/20
May 2, 2008  
This reminds me of a Newcastle with a lot of hops. I usually am not a huge fan of bitters, but this one is pretty damn good.


 carruthm (1165), Seattle, Washington, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
May 2, 2008    Updated: Dec 6, 2008
This flavor has a nice bite to it, similar to a brown ale but obviously with much less malt and much more bitter.


 tlind2 (604), Helsinki, Finland
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/58/104/516/20
May 2, 2008  
Draught & Bottle. Deep copper color, medium head. Pleasant aroma of sweet malts and fruit. The taste has excellent bitterness balanced against juicy hops. Very pleasing bitter indeed.


 jbuzz (661), South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/58/104/515/20
May 2, 2008  
Almost clear brown color, white head and only slightly bitter. almost light. the easiest Bitter i have had. Bottle went down way way to fast !



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