4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Aroma: tropical fruits, sweet malt, caramel, slightly hoppy.
Appearance: dark red, almost brown color with a nice white head.
Flavour: malty sweetness, caramel, sweet berries, aromatic flowery hops. Good bitterness.
Palate: smooth, clean, bitter finish.
Overall: an easy-to-drink-beer, with a very good maltiness. As the beer warms up it reveals a nice, flowery bitterness. Feels a bit like a "Barley Wine-light". Fuller’s never fails to impress me, but, honestly, this one took time to understand. Maybe it was a bit too cold first (even though it wasn’t that cold), but i don’t know. I think this is the best beer I’ve had from Fuller’s, even though the ESB and Porter are very good too.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 12/20
bottle. Aroma of caramel malt, apples, mineral, metallic hops. Dark bourbon red amber hue with a large off-white frothy head that left great lace and mostly lasted. Flavor is smooth caramel malt, apple, some mineral and metal hops on the finish. Palate is lively and medium bodied. Just a gorgeous brew that looked promising but a let down in the end. Metallic hop presence was just too much.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle 20oz: Coming from a mostly wine, bourbon and whiskey world to beer. It amazes me the complexity of the finer beers and how they embody qualities of wine and whiskeys, and the prices are silly affordable. Anywho, another great beer from Fuller’s, although I like the ESB a litter more since this requires more concentration. Aroma is christmas fruit cake - in the good way. Flavor is complex with dried fruits and baking spices with some bittering hops. Alchohol is tingly and finish is long. I’m enjoying this.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Mahogany, fluffy tan head. Nose is raiiny toffee, roasty/dusty malts, dark sugary fruits, a hint of oxidation. Flavor is toffee, rich maltiness. Not quite coffee/cocoa dustiness. Finish is dark fruit, a bit of tingy hop, tobacco.
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: DEC 13, 2011 Bottle at home ... Deep copper ... sweet caramel malt nose ... aain sweet caramel .... quite rich syrupy fruity ... little spice ...little honey... but with a slight metalic hoppy after taste.
Bottle at home for the On line Mass tasting ... copper ... little sediment ... small off white head ... open sweet caramel candi suger nose ... toffee fronts ... lots of candi peel ... sweet sugered fruits ... little metalicness ... little apple yeastyness 3... little peppery hop .3
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
From a 500 ml bottle purchased locally, this poured a dark brown, with off white head that held up well, and left good lacing. Nose is caramel malts with hints of fruit and the mouthfeel is rich and creamy. Complex flavors and a long bitter finish. Enjoyable.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
This pale ale poured with a foamy off-white head that lasted a while. There is a strong malt aroma and a full-bodied creamy malt flavor with a peppery finish. Very balance and tasty.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Big deep offwhite shiny lasting head. Dark brown body made hazy by suspended yeast particles. Fruity malty aroma with peppery roasty toffee notes. Deep rich sweet intensely malty fruity taste with roasty peppery toffee and chocolate notes. Dry wooden minty roasty aftertaste with faint hoppy notes. Some sherry/paper notes, probably from oxidization. Long spicy aftertaste of wood creosote. Harmonic and balanced. Lovely! An excellent beer. (0.5l bottle, Systembolaget, Göteborg. BBD 2009-08-14.)
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