Fuller’s 1845

Brewed by Fuller’s
Style: English Strong Ale
London, England

Serve in English pint, Trappist glass

50cl Bottle from De Bierkoning. Clear ruby amber colour, dense off white head, looks stunning. Aroma of toasted malts, caramel, coffee, hint of cabbage but not in a bad way, nutmeg. Flavour is light sweet, malty, some coffee/moccha, bitter roast, amber malts, bit of caramel, firm hoppy light fruity bitter finish. Medium bodied, slick. Really nice beer imo.

This copper coloured ale has red fruit, currants and burnt toffee flavours with hints of chocolate and a sweet caramel finish. Bottle Conditioned.

Clear deep copper, nice foamy off white head, which leaves a very definitive stepped lacing. Aroma of dark fruit and sweet malt. Strong roasted malt taste, dried fruits, some caramel and spice. Well hopped, with some alcohol. Long dry bitter finish. LBW (Lagerboys Be Wary)

500ml bottle. Pours a hazy ruby-amber, with a fairly large off-white head, which dissipates fairly quickly, without leaving a huge amount of lacing. Plum and prune notes mix well with some fruitcake and cinnamon on the nose. Very mild, fruity hops lead into a slightly boozy fruitcake flavour up front. It gives way to smooth toffee in the body. Sweet plum and candied fruits signal a lasting, fruity finish. Another classy beer from Fuller’s, this is a classic sweeter English strong ale, full of luscious fruit flavours.

500ml bottle. Dark amber with small off-white head. Complex aroma & taste: Caramel, toffee, dark fruit, some alcohol . If you take the taste for an overall impression and not in an analytic mode there’s a strange, unbalanced and somewhat displeasing note I cannot describe other than "purulence". What a bummer! Sets it back a better score.

Originally Rated 01/16/12 Pours very deep ruby/amber colour – absolutely clear. Nice fluffy head, with a slightly too vigorous pour… smell is lots of dates, sticky dark sweet caramelized toffee but a nice chocolate roastiness to offset the high sweet notes. Kind of like a dark sticky fruit cake or something, but with black forest cake added as well. Nice natural cherry kind of nectar at the end of the smell. Flavour is a lot of the caramel and sweet dark fruit, some over ripened apple, and some very nice spice characters (when I say spice, I don’t mean Belgian, I mean like a peppery quality), a little bit of savoury herbaceous/grassy character. Light sharpness, not really alcohol burn, but just a sharp kind of character. Mouth feel is thin, with light carbonation. Interesting, inoffensive brew; nice for a -25 C Edmonton eve in Jan.

fles 50cl Kleur: robijnrood met een kleine cremeschuimkraag Geur: gebrand mout. Smaak: Licht bitter en gebrand mout, wat je voornamelijk in de nasmaak proeft. Medium koolzuur.

Dark brown. Aromas of malt and caramel. Flavour malt, caramel, toffee and slight hint of coffee