Fuller’s Vintage Ale 2009

Formerly brewed at Fuller’s
Style: English Strong Ale
London, England

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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Reddish amber pour with a lively white head. The aroma is hugely bready with notes of wheaty crackers, toffee, nut, rum tiramisu, and caramel. The flavor is caramel, nutty toffee, bread, dough, and a light spicy hop note. The palate is medium to full bodied with a supple, smooth mouthfeel and a chalky finish.

Biege coloured foamy head good carbonation rich amber colour with an aroma of malted goodnesss caramel nuttiness fruit alcohol toffee honey flavour caramel honey toffee brandy raisin morishing mellow mild bitter light sweetness all of this at the finish of afine vintage alcohol presence of 8.5% perfect top ale

Bottle at Caspar’s Running Toilet Tasting. Pours red-gold with a wild, white film. Leafy, herbal and lightly piney hops in the aroma, along with subtle caramel, toast and crackers. Very sweet flavor, lovely jam notes, some booze, ripe fruits. Full bodied with average but mouth-filling carbonation. Warm finish, notes of cake, toast, jammy fruits, faint leafy bitters, toasty sugars. Very nice.

Colour is Roasty golden brown with a creamy white head. Clear with good bubbles. Smell alcoholic with fine wine and brandy thrown in, some red berries, and classic malt sweetness. Taste is beautiful rich smooth malt with a touch of well balanced English hop bitterness. A bit of raisin. Big yet occasionaly subtle flavour. Doesn’t hit you over the head (at least not until the end of a bottle!)

500ml bottle. This one looks robust and potent from the outset with its thin wispy head and deep copper colour and aromas of spice, fruit and christmas pudding. Whisky like aroma with a strong alcohol kick in the first sip that hits all parts of the mouth and lingers, leaving you wanting more.

bottle conditioned, pours cloudy reddish orange color with off white, grey bubbly head which soon recedes to a ring / thin film in my trappist glass. Aroma is very warm and buttery, with fruit notes like apricot jelly, also buttered biscuit, toffee, peanut brittle, butterscotch. Delicious flavor, at first with notes of caramel, and then candied fruit - apricot, orange, then moves to a sweet toffee, with a long finish of butterscotch and buttered toast. Palate is a little thinner than expected for all this flavor, but that just makes this dangerously drinkable. Similar in character to sam smith’s yorkshire stingo, this is simply a great english strong, hard to stop sipping on it.

Glowing amber with a beige head. Aroma has dried fruit, toffee, spices, alcohol. Luscious caramel sweetness with lots of dried fruit and oranges in an oily body. A little chocolate. Avoids being cloying with spicy and fruity bitterness. Maybe some wood in the dryish finish. Alcohol is much less prominent than Golden Pride, but some of the malt flavours are muted. Still pretty hoppy. I don’t regret opening it now but it’s got a while ahead of it.

Aromas of vanilla, caramel, and most of all apple are what I noticed first. Nice medium amber-orange colour with a minimal head. Not cloudy with a lovely sparkle. A light, sweetness, minimal bitterness and a medium body that is not overpowering. A nice degree of carbonation adds just the right amount of fizz. Smooth finish. A very enjoyable beer for sure.

Bottle@Home. Toffee and hop aroma. Amber colour, off-white head, good lace. Sweet, bitter, toffee, light herbal, spirits. More bitter in the finish. Sticky mouth feel. Not too complex but just wonderful.

16.9oz bottle (No 147040) - pours a murky dark orange with ivory head and thin lacing. Based on the pour and age, I figured it would smell nutty and it does. Nose also adds caramel and basement aromas. Flavor contributes with toffee, alcohol, fermented fruit and a little resin. I’d liken this to a slightly bitter Belgian tripel. Sweet with enough bitterness to keep interesting. This beer alone, makes me appreciate British beers a lot more, in that there are some that go beyond your typical pub beer and will entice me to search for others like it. A standout beer from England.