Fullers Past Masters Double Stout

Brewed by Fuller’s
Style: Foreign Stout
London, England

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Very dark almost impenetrable brown with cognac highlights. Cap is espresso foam brown, it settles out. Rich fruity-cocoa aromas and roasty bitterness with full deep malty flavors - chocolate, coffee and hints of fruit. Refreshingly it is not this week’s designer stout infused with some rare ingredient, dipped in wax or sold for a king’s ransom. Good one LCBO.

Lovely rich full. Best beer I’ve drunk for a while. Lovely balance of darkness, roasty pleasure with leather, hints of tobacco dark chocolate and all good things in dark beers. Sometimes with a gem once is enough but I could do a few of theses

Bottle from Venerables. Black colour, dark brown head. Nose is dry, roasted malts, chocolate, bit of fruits, liquorice. Flavour of roasted malts, chocolate, dry oats, liquorice, fruits, well hopped. Full bodied, chewy mouth feeling. Dry and r oasty finish. Very well done.

Bottle at DBF2012. Black with a small brown head. Aroma almost heavy malty (roasted, chocolate, licorice, a smoky note). Flavor medium+ sweet, medium bitter of hops and dark malts. Medium+ body. Fantastic.

Bottle. Cellar temp. Poured into a snifter. Beautiful dark brown colour. Thin tan head. Roasted malts in the aroma with pipe tobacco, grape, dark cherry and leather like a baseball mitt. Full bodied and oily. Nice flavour. Modest hop presence with a mild bitter quality. I taste coffee, chocolate wafers, almond, vanilla and smoke. Finish is long and dry.

Bottle. Mild roasted aroma. Black colour. No head. The flavour is sweet and roasted. Good roasted flavour with a little sweet liquorice and some nice rye bread.

Bottle. Color dark brown with medium white head. Aroma malt, roasted, caramel, chocolate. Taste sweet, roasted, chocolate, alcohol.

Bottle. Dark brown color with a medium-sized beige head. Roasty aroma with malt, chocolate and dark fruits. Medium to full bodied. Roasted malt, chocolate, licorice and raisins. Bitter aftertaste. Very tasty brew.

Black color; medium sized beige head, creamy but not long persistent. Quite strong aroma of cardboard, cream, roasted malts, vanilla, leather, wood; interesting, different from most other Stouts. Strong body with smooth mouthfeel; the dominant flavor is chocolate, followed by more heavily roasted malts, and with a trace of liquorice; low bitterness, some of it from the roasted malts, and light late ashes; balanced. Very pleasant.

(500mL bottle from LCBO) Poured cool, nearly pitch black with an inch of fine beige head that faded without lace. Aroma of roasted malts, cacao, coffee, woodsy smoky vanilla/leather, berries, bit of soya. Flavour initially roasted malts, slight creamy sweetness, then more bitter hops, cacao beans and dark coffee, finishes dry with smoky coffee roast and a medicinal anise tang. Body medium, somewhat creamy, carbonation soft, alcohol warmth moderate. Old-school stout, complex and interesting, dry and dangerously drinkable compared to RIS.

Bottle: Almost black color, beige head. Aroma is malty and roasty, roasted malts, dark chocolate, cacao, dark fruits and a hint of soy sauce. Flavor is malty, sweet, roasty, toffee, chocolate, cacao, dark fruits. Yummy.