Fullers London Pride (Pasteurised)

Brewed by Fullers
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
London, England

16 oz. can poured into a nonic. Orange-copper color with a beige, two-finger head. Retention is excellent, but not much lacing is left behind. Aroma is bursting with English malt notes. Bread, cookies, and a dark fruitiness. Taste is just about all malt. The notes echo those of the aroma, but there’s a distinct bread crust note in the finish with some tannic hop bitterness. Very English, a bit understated but well-balanced. Mouthfeel is a bit low on carbonation. Creamy and smooth with high drinkability.

Good brew, bitter flavor, slight maltiness, but not very pronounced. I Feels fairly bold in my mouth, and as it hits the back of my throat I can really taste some fruitiness and flowers. I like this beer. Better in cask though.

(330 ml bottle (best before 6/12/08) from <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/massachusetts/w target=blank>Julio’s Liquors) Pours clear amber with three fingers of biscuit head that settles to a rocky cap. Aroma is mostly malty (egg, vanilla, caramel, maybe pumpkin) with some light piney hops. Mouthfeel is medium-full, fairly smooth, but quite prickly. Lots of heavy thick lacing. Flavor is quite bitter upfront - contrasting with Fuller’s ESB which is quite malt-forward. Bitterness overlays a rather weak malt profile - malt never really emerges even as it warms. Rather weak egg/vanilla/caramel taste. Bitterness continues on through finish and leaves a bit of an aftertaste. To me not on par with the ESB.

Perhaps the subtleness of this beer is missed on my palate. Either that or this is just a so-so beer. I’m betting on the so-so part. Highly drinkable would probably be the best thing about the beer. Aroma had some sick-fruity sweetness to it that I’d probably rather avoid, caramel, malts and shortbread cookies. Where’s the hops? Appearance is a clear orange color, nice head with minimal retention and lacing. Flavor of light fruit, flowers, sweet malts, and lightly toasted bread. I couldn’t detect anything that resembled hops that I know of. I’m going to find another bottle to see if this was a bid on the old side of things.

a decent brew only had it a few times but well worth the try. a decent malty hop mix.

reddish amber with a generous head that left nice lacing. Very subtle aromas of bread and dried bananas. Hard to describe the flavors - slightly sweet, buttery, biscuits, tea? Mouthfeel is a bit thin, not much carbonation. Somehow I expected more from this beer, but it didn’t live up to expectations.

I really love this beer from a bottle. there is a variety of hop flavours on the palate that i just cannot distinguish them but the balance is excellent..leaves a nice roasty aftertaste

Thanks to Guayo Palomo. Classic, conservative, well rounded pale ale. Very well balanced between malts and hops, and really easy to drink