Fullers ESB (Bottle/Keg)

Golden yellow with no head. Aroma of caramel, fruit and mild hops. Taste is smooth and semi bland with caramel, fruits and mild hops. Mild bitterness that does not linger.

Bottle, 550ml. Pours a copper-bronze, with initially promising quarter-finger deep slightly off-white head, which goes rather too quickly. No lacing. Rich aroma of fruity malt, and sweet on the palate, with a decent mouthfeel. Slightly perceptible caramel notes on the tongue. Decent enough ale.

Orange to copper beer with a thin white head. Aroma is hoppy, piney aromatic with fruity tones( grape fruit, lemon and some berries). Malts are toffy and caramelly. Dryish flavor with a long, bitter finish, Medium bodied, soft palate. Sticky bitter and tongue numbing in the finish.

Amber bodied, head not too thick, clean flavor, slightly hoppy and pleasantly bitter. It has a slight fruity aftertaste that goes over well, and has no glaring weaknesses, but it’s not overwhelmingly impressive either.

12 ounce bottle: poured an amber color with minor lacing. Very smooth in taste, a little malty, with little or no hops aftertaste; very full bodied though.

On tap. Very well balanced. Medium hop bitterness with a medium doughy malt character that work really well with each other. I really want to try this on cask.

Bottle from Sainsbury’s. Obviously not going to be a patch on a good version of the cask, but this is an exceptional beer in its own right. Dark coppery colour with a frothy off-white head. Fruity, hoppy aroma with hints of yeast. Taste is a perfect balance of hops and malt, sweet and bitter with a complex long, rich finish. Perfect level of carbonation. This is a truly class act.

500ml bottle fron the SAQ as part of a trade for a server cabinet consumed at steve’s The aroma was nice and spicy and good hops pours a nice light copper with little to no head or lacing The tast was spicy honey very nice another fine brew from fullers