Fullers Golden Pride (Cask)

Brewed by Fullers
Style: English Strong Ale
London, England

Cask @ National Winter Ales Festival 2009. A hazy amber beer with a bubbly orangey head. The aroma has notes of malt, alcohol, caramel, and lots of fruit. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of caramel and toffee as well as medium notes of over ripe fruits and lots of malt. Nice body.

Cask (gravity) @ National Winter Ales Festival 2009, Manchester, England.
Clear medium amber orange color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, caramel, fruity, alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration, finish has a peppery - alcoholic bitternes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat, finish is light alcoholic. [20090124]

Cask. Slightly hoppy aroma of grass/hay, sweet fruit, malt. Dark chestnut colour, unstable head. Quite peppery flavour, also some sweet, dried fruit. Mouthfeel is a little syrupy. Quite potent, and nice. 6 3 7 3 14

Cask. 2005 vintage, lagered in the cask for at least a year. Clear dark brown colour. The flavour is malty and peppery. Reminds me of a dark Belgian beer or Dark Gambrinus. The aftertaste is rather dry, clearing the palate with OK bitterness. Could be better considering ABV. 6 3 6 3 14

Cask at Fynske Øldage 2005. Clear orange coloured with a small off white head. Sweet aroma of malts, caramel and alcohol. Sweet flavour of malts, fruits, alcohol and caramel.

1. Cask Handpump at Oakwood High School, Rotherham 22/02/2003 Golden colour strong in alcohol and malty. Some bitterness in a warming finish. 2. Cask Stillage at the Metropolitan Cathedral Crypt, Liverpool 20/02/2009 Fruit and hop aromas. Golden amber coloured and very strong in alcohol. A little sweet on the palate. Some dryness in a crisp full malt finish.

Cask@Ealing Beer On Broadway. Sweet, full bodied, with caramel and berry fruit. Some bitter alcohol and some hops towards the finish, pretty decent.

A heady mix of caramel, toffee and alcohol. However, the overall effect is just too sweet for me and becomes rather cloying. Cask (gravity), London Drinker beer festival. Not sure it was wise to leave an 8.5% brew for my 24th and last British beer of the festival. But it was the only one left that I hadn't had. But there's still a cider and the foreign beer bar left. Oh dear.

Cask conditioned - handpump - Malt Shovel, Northampton. A dark brown to amber coloured beer. Strong in all departments and warming. The fruit though can be brash and harsh and the body not smooth. Having said that it’s got some good qualities, especially the malty warming elements. Misses some tricks though.