Fullers London Pride (Pasteurised)

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

Definitely a quaffer! Aroma is bitter malt, almost a liqueur like aroma in there somewhere. Flavor is a nice, molasses-like malt profile highlighted by a nice bitter bite. And in the background, there are some floral hop notes - ones that just don’t show in American Hops. Pours a clear amber with white head.

Pours a nice rich amber color with almost no head. Bit of spicy hop taste to it but short finish and goes down smooth. A very nice beer for dinner.

Bottle @ Wit’s End in San Diego 8/10/06. Can’t say how it poured because I wasn’t offered a glass. This is a surprisingly good and complex brew. It has a lingering bitter after taste, but is quite refreshing.

Appearance: Pours an amber-ish orange color/ with a small head that fades quickly; little sticky lacing. Smell: There is an immediate sweet caramel and buttery aroma that has subtle bready malt characteristics as well. There are very gentle English hops in the back of the nose. Taste: This is a remarkable quaffable easy to accept beer. Very tasty. It has a soft flavor that has no bold characteristics; but its glamour is in it’s gentle approachability. There is a bit of toasted malt, caramel, and breadyness up front. Then through the center, the beer seems very fruity and a bit juicy. There is a bit of buttery diacetyl and oily / juicy texture to the mid. The finish is slightly dry with just the perfect amount hop presence to leave a gentle bitterness lingering magnificently on the tongue. Well-done Fuller’s! Mouthfeel: Very smooth slick texture that is slightly crisp around the edge but more oily / juicy through the center. Solid backbone leaves this lightweight beer feeling solid enough, and the dry finish is brilliant. Drinkability: This is one of the easiest drinking beers that I have encountered. It was so easy to drink and put down I hardly have words to describe it. Maybe the simple straightforward attributes. Maybe the perfect balance. Maybe the juicy characteristics; whatever it is that made this beer so quaffable and approachable made it a fantastically easy beer to drink! Hope this is helpful. Cheers!

Draft. Citrusy hop aroma. Good maly base balanced well with a solid bitterness and good hop finish.

500ml can. Pours a nice golden-orange colour, with a rich creamy head that’ll take some time to settle. The aroma is malty of course, hoppy, some pineapple, caramel, citrus, I was expecting banana but it’s mostly piney and citrusy. Flavour is more of the same but very smooth, less tang than I thought there would be given the very evident elements of pineapples. There’s a tiny hop bite in the finish. The carbonation is non-existent in the taste despite the carbonated look of the beer in the glass. Nice brew over-all but nothing spectacular. EDIT: This one definitely grew on me. I love the malt character to it, and the hops add a great sense of balance to the whole picture. A good go-to-session-brew.

Overall good beer. Not outstanding but very solid and not overwhelming to drink. Pours a clear amber color, no head, and sites very well on the palate. Good rich taste and no bitter aftertaste. I dont consider it a bitter but rather a good tasty ale.

copper pour, smells of malts and hops, the tatse is more on the malt side and extremely smooth, good stuff!