Fullers ESB (Bottle/Keg)

This is an outstanding beer and among my all-time favourites. It has a good clear, rich amber body and a big, lasting light tan head with some good lacing. The aroma is toasted bread crust, caramel, nuts, fruit, citrus, pineapple, and pine. The flavours are excellently balanced with a nice hoppiness and maltiness, sweetness and bitterness complementing each other well. It has a tasty richness and faint floral element, caramel, bread, fruit, nuts, pine and citrus. It’s full-bodied and very flavourful, with a lot of sublte complexity, but also exceedingly drinkable and smooth. The result is a perfectly balanced beer thast screams "beer" more than anything else.

Pours a clear copper brew, Nice frothy head. Rich aroma of fruits and nuts. Smooth creamy mouthfeel with malt and hops evident. The finish is refreshingly bitter. Another great Fullers beer.

An excellent bitter and session ale. Definitely one of Fuller’s better ales. Poured with white, slowly dissapating head. Aroma smalled of nuts and apricot. Medium body with decent carbonation. Flavors of nut, fruits, and spice. Very clean finish and overall very satisfactory.

Nov 2005 - Beer poured dark amber color with moderate head. Not much aroma. Flavor was of caramelly malts with a nice hop twang finish. Overall a good beer. Gave me a wicked headache, though.

Bottle. Dried fruit and caramel malt aroma. Amber with larger tan head and nice lacing. Molasses malt and moderate hops - well blended.

This is a really nice ESB, big malt character like a true ESB, all the PNW types are hop monsters. Big caramel flavor, bready and toasty in the finish. Hops provide a good balance but don’t try to take over the show. Very smooth on the palate. The aroma showcases more of a fruity malt nose. Great all around beer.

Pint Bottle from Bevmo. Poured a rich copper color with an ample off white head that faded slowly. Aroma was light with malts and some thyme. Flavor was soapy, with bread, peanuts and apricots; the hops were distinct but not particularly biter. Unfortunately, I prefer much more distinctly biter hops in my ESB’s. Mouthfeel started out as fairly watery but developed into a full effect. Carbonation was ample and prickly. The finish was short and clean with a bit of soapy hops. Overall this is a very session-able brew. Recommended.

On-Tap. Red/copper color with a white head that is fluffy at first but then shrinks. Decent lacing. Smells of biscuits,caramel/toffee, bittersweet fruit, some nuts. Tastes of biscuits, toffee, butterscotch, some butter, caramel, grapefruit, orange-peel, apricots, some nuts. Lasting bitterness. Complex and balanced taste. Medium body and a bit creamy. Medium carbonation. A very good ESB and one of my favorite beers so far. Even better on tap, and I would really like to try it on cask.