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Fullers ESB (Bottle/Keg) 3.62 1528

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
15283.63/5.03.62/5.05.9%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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emerson430 (87), Lakewood, Ohio, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/104/516/20
Jan 19, 2008  
I really wish I had this on a cask ... nice nutty malty flavor with a well balanced hop nose. This thing could win a gymnastics competition based on its balance alone.


 conor23 (110), Elgin, Illinois, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/102/56/102/511/20
Jan 19, 2008  
Bready/yeasty aroma with a hint of fruit. Taste is sweet at first with lingering bitterness. Slight metallic aftertaste.


blackbock (35), Australia
1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/102/51/102/53/20
Jan 15, 2008  
(bottle). Considering how much I paid for this beer, I thought it was pretty ordinary. I was expecting big things from all of those English hop varieties; Sadly all I could taste was Goldings and crystal malt. Yawn.


 gam (1112), brisbane, Australia
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/513/20
Jan 13, 2008    Updated: Jul 10, 2008
Very dark amber colour light brown head,very good carb.Aroma hoppy and breadlike,citric.Flavour slight bland fruit flavour malt at finish. Not as good as I hoped.


 pforei (338), USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Jan 6, 2008    Updated: Mar 16, 2008
Bronze amber, aggressive pour yields decent but quickly evaporating head. Bready caramel malt aroma with slight grassy hop. Taste is similar with very slight lemon zest and spicy/pepperiness. Finish is bitter and dry. Thin to medium body.


 FlyingSwine (170), Littleton, Colorado, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Jan 4, 2008  
Pours a beautiful crystal clear redish-amber, with a decent head. Excellent sweet, caramel, malty aroma. Flavor is nutty, and you certainly get a mouthful of the Goldings, and a bit of that Fuller’s yeast. Nice bitter finish, but never hoppy. Palate is okay, but I’d have preferred it to be a bit heavier. Overall a good ESB.


 Powertrip (196), Calgary, Alberta, Canada
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/104/512/20
Dec 29, 2007  
What a nose! A collection of ginger, cinnamon and buttermilk pancakes all wrapped in a blanket of caramel. That caramel blanket is evident to the eye in the beers appearence. Again, caramel and hops are the dominant flavours, while some fresh cream comes through in the middle. A faint hint of mushrooms at the end. Quite a bitter but short finish.


 xnoxhatex (1305), Grand Rapids/Chicago, Michigan, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/510/20
Dec 28, 2007  
Bottle from Gf’s family. Light amber with light beige head. Slight caramel and spicy nobel hops. Rather boring nut and caramel flavor with slight hop spice. Medium body. Okay, but pretty boring, especially put side by side with Alsmith’s Anvil ESB.



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