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Fullers ESB (Bottle/Keg)

Fullers ESB (Bottle/Keg) - Premium Bitter/ESB

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 Percentile 
93
overall
Brewed by Fullers
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB

London, England

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
15143.63/5.03.63/5.05.9%99English pint
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Commercial Description:
Bottle & keg (USA); Pasteurised.
First brewed in 1971. Ingredients: Pale Ale malt, Crystal malt and Maize; Target, Challenger, Northdown and Goldings hops.
Brewed at 5.5% ABV in cask and 5.9% ABV in bottle, ESB is a true liquid legend, and should be savoured as such.
ESB has a wonderful rich mahogany appearance. Taking in the nose, the beer is bursting with cherry and orange, balanced by soft malty toffee and caramel notes. The flavour delivers everything you would expect from such a full-bodied ale. The unique blend of Northdown, Target, Challenger and Goldings hops imparts grassy, peppery notes on the tongue along with intense citrus fruit characters of grapefruits, oranges and lemons. The blend of Pale Ale and Crystal malts in the brew give a biscuity, toffee element to the beer. A smooth, mellow bitterness lingers on the palate to give a superbly satisfying finish.
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 Macadem (100), Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Sep 19, 2009  
Pours dark golden, almost honey colored with a foamy white head. Smells sweet, with toffee, raspberries and other red berries. Taste is full, but not very complex. Caramelized sugar, white grapes and some hops make up the flavor. gives a full, rich, foamy mouth feel.


 Savvy1982 (303), Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/515/20
Sep 18, 2009  
Bottle. Pours clear amber with a medium off-white head, ropey lacing. Nose is big and full for a bittter, spice, ginger, cake, fresh hops, pine. Palate is big and malty and rich, but also has a very fresh and cleansing hoppy aspect. I wasn’t expecting to like this so well, but this was an excellent bitter.


REROLIM (9), ITAPEVA-SP, Brazil
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5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
Sep 17, 2009  
By far the best premium bitter ever.. I wish I could live in London to have my happy hour in a Fuller’s Pub, drinking London Pride and ,of course, Fuller’s ESB...


 FunkyBrewster (436), Chicago, Illinois, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Sep 14, 2009  
On tap. Pours a golden amber with a small off white head. Aroma of light fruits, bready malt, plums, prickly pear, and very floral. Flavor starts pretty mild and sweet and quickly puts forth that seems big burst of fruits and light breadiness. Just a bit of spiciness adds to the overall flavor and smooth finish. Medium body and a soft but tickling carbonation. A nice ESB, very complimentary to my meal and refreshing.


Briangates (2), Morden, Surrey, England
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2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/54/103/515/20
Sep 13, 2009    Updated: Sep 14, 2009
I have been a fan of ESB for many years and a regular drinker of the beer in bottled form. What has struck me is how the beer has changed. It was once a beer with a great deal of richness on the palate and considerable depth of flavour and notably darker in colour, Sadly it seems to have lost these qualities, and the character it once had, which made it stand out from other premium bottled ales.


 sound67 (157), Offenbach, Germany
4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/510/105/519/20
Sep 12, 2009    Updated: Sep 18, 2009
50cl bottle, as shown. Copper-coloured with modest, soapy white head. Low carbonation. Aroma of oranges, fig & caramel. Taste is sweet at first, again of ripe oranges and caramel, offset by a lovely, but not dominant, hoppy bitterness. More characterful than the same company’s likeable "London Pride"; lasting medium bitter aftertaste. A smooth, complex, eminently drinkable premium bitter - this is, for the time being, my favourite English beer!


keidjxz (41), Irvine, California, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/103/515/20
Sep 11, 2009  
Rich amber color with a thin foamy head. The flavor isn’t overly bitter but has a definite interesting hop overtone accompanied by malt and citrus flavors.


 danielst (131), Vienna, Austria
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Sep 10, 2009    Updated: Sep 11, 2009
The aroma is spicy, earthy, even leathery and grassy - truely "british" hop profile. A nice ale fruitiness with light butterscotch and alcohol overtones. Copper golden appearance with a vanishing head. The flavour is earthy, overall hoppy, but mostly toffeeish and sometimes caramelly. Rather dry but not actually bitter - a bit watery too, otherwise creamy mouthfeel. Nice, but not as nice as the London Pride.



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