3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Sorry for the german rating, but this is a lousy rating from my "newbie" time (2007-2009), and it’s not worth of being translated. I just added it for the statistics, and to complete my backlog!
Schönes leuchtendes Orange-gelb mit großer, mittelporiger Krone. Der Antrunk ist absolut Bitter-typisch. Angenehm herb-bitter, leicht süßlich im Abgang. Vergleichbar mit einem Black Sheep Ale, nur evtl nen Tick milder. Die britischen Biere gewinnen für mich immer mehr und mehr an Reiz! Klasse!
4.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Fuller’s ESB has a thin, egg-shell colored head and a clear, amber appearance with few streaming bubbles and little-to-no lacing. Aroma is of caramel, light fruit, medium-roasted barley malt, some spice, and candy. Taste is of roasted malt, a bit of bitterness, candy, caramel, sweetness, some mild fruit, and toffee. Mouthfeel is soft, rather light, and watery, and Fuller’s ESB finishes mostly crisp, clean, refreshing, and super easy drinking. This is truly a wonderful, enjoyable, delicious, and classic beer. I’m so glad to have tried it. Please get one! RJT
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from Systembolaget. I can’t believe I have been neglecting this beer. It’s allot better then I remembered it. Flowery and fruity with a fairly high residual sweetness. Very easy to drink.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
From the bottle. Pours scotch color, with a minimal white head. Light carbination with zero lacing on the glass. Very light and drinkable. Smell of fruits and roasted malts. Taste is carmel, malty, toffee with a sweet linguring aftertaste on the tongue. Not a bad beer...would have again.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from Tesco
Amber...clear..big rocky frothy white head that dissipates to a nice creamy off-white head
Aroma - Biscuity malts...smooth caramel malts...light spicy hops..some bread....hint of orange marmalade on toast...subtle but quite complex aroma.....however aroma is light
Taste - Biscuit and caramel malts...light spicy hops..touch of light fruits..bread...bit of buttery toffee...well blended....fairly complex...subtle mellow flavours...alcohol barely noticeable...easy drinking...perhaps its too subdued?
Palate - Soft carb..smooth....medium bosy...smooth texture...good balance of bitter hops and sweet malts. Finish as main flavour but malts rucher...cleans off platae well...well blended
Overall - Well made, well blended quite complex but subtle good English bitter - made for easy drinkability
3.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
500 ml bottle. Pours a clear amber with a white, yellowish head. Smells spicy. Taste is peppery, spicy. Nice herbal bitterness in the finish. Thick bodied, really, all I can say is "excellent!". Hits right on the spot!
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Clean, amber coloured ale with off white lacing. Only a faint herbal smell, mildly roasted maybe but very straightforward. The taste is what this beer is about. With a small malty background and a bitterness that’s light to medium from start to middle. Ends abruptly and for good reason: drinkability. And drinkability is what drives this, with the low alcohol, mild and unobtrusive aroma to the low carbonation and accessible bitterness. It’s pretty good in that sense. But I can’t help but feel bored and feel like I’d rather drink something more flavourfull in lower quantities. A more distinctive hop profile would do. For now it is pretty passible even while being a quality brew. (50cl bottle, medium priced)
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
500ml bottle. Pours out amber and forms a nice head. A deep malty aroma leads to a wonderful caramel sweetness, rounded off with a fruity undercurrent. I would drink bitter more often if they were all up to this standard.
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