Fuller’s Red Fox (Cask)

Brewed by Fuller’s
Style: Irish Ale
London, England

Serve in English pint

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I have enjoyed a few of these over the course of a couple of evenings. The ever so slightly reddy brown colour does justice to the name of this beer. From cask, it was clear and very slightly sparkling. Aromas are sweet and mellow: I got vanilla, maple and butterscotch and toast. Not that bitter in taste, nor too sweet I felt this was really well balanced and very easy to drink with reasonably modest ABV. Definitely recommended

Volo Cask Days 2009. Wow, this was so nice. Loads of sweet, bready, biscuity malts. SOme slight hops just for a touch of bitterness, but the sweet silky bready malts won me over.

Draught. I had been building this up for weeks, based on the description on the Autumn Beer Festival leaflet Fullers distributed. I walked all across London looking for it. When I tried some I found it to be a very, very drinkable session beer. It is fairly sweet, red ale. Small white head. Malty, with a little hop character. There was certainly a hint of oats. Overall a fine beer, one I hope becomes a yearly brew for Fullers.

Tawny red in colour, toasted malts aroma, biscuity taste with a little aftertaste.

Cask. At Volo Cask Days 2009. I guess I was the only one to love this beer. Hazy amber with a large, lasting fluffy beige head. Dry aroma, mild pine duff, black tea with lemon - the taste followed - lemon/yea, herbal, with light crisp red apple sweetness - quite dry and crisp, lovely. Soft, dry, leafy mouthfeel, a bit still, but really well-balanced with a perfect finish. A lovely, lovely cask! You’re all wrong.

[Cask at Cockney Pub, Århus] A deep red beer with a small beige head. The aroma is sweet with notes of lingonberries and hops. The flavor is crisp with notes of ligonberries, nuts, and hops with a dry end.

Tops! Big malty aroma, clean caramel/toffee. Amber in colour. Nice sweet start with a balanced mid and mild dry finish. Smooth medium mouthfee. Great session beer.

Definite ruddy tinge to the colour - very autumnal. Slightly bready malt aroma. The flavour is also dominated by malt - very dry. Medium bodied and smooth. I thought this was rather good. Cask (handpump), Euston Flyer, London.

Cask at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Pours out in a clear reddish brown colour with a small off-white creamy head. Hay-like and soily hops in the aroma with solid undertones offudge, nuts, almonds and milky chocolate. Medium-bodied with balanced notes of nuts, milky chocolate, straw, soil, leaves and red berries. Medium-bitter finish of soil, fudge and hay. Tasty and solid quaffer.

A nice reddish beer with a very pleasant mouthfeel. The only thing that stops it from being a very good beer is its thiness which becomes more noticable the longer you drink it.