Gales Prize Old Ale (2007)

Fuller’s
Formerly brewed at Gales
Style: Old Ale
London, England

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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500 ml bottle, vintage 2007. Murky brown body with practically no head. Aroma of caramel malt and dry fruit. Flavor is sweet malty, caramel, dry fruit, warming alcohol, vinous and moderate bitterness. Fine body and long, sweet malty aftertaste. Nice.

3/1/2013. Really enjoyed this. Pours brown-red with a thin white head. Aroma is vanilla, wood, earth, sour. Taste is sour apple, vinous, cherries, wild, sweet, excellent. Mouth feel is syrupy, oily, chewy. Very pleased to have this shared with me. I wish this were readily available; I would drink it often.

Chris O’s Fullers/Gales Tasting Feb 2012. Starts sweet then sucks all dryness out of your body finishing very dry and puckering. Epic fail.

500 ml bottle into snifter, 2007 vintage best before 12/18/2010. Pours extremely hazy dark reddish brown color with a small foamy light khaki head with decent retention, that reduces to a spotty foamy cap that lingers. Spotty foamy lacing clings on the glass. Aromas of huge prune, raisin, fig, toast, red wine, molasses, caramel, chocolate, bread, earth, tobacco, and light herbal. Pretty nice aromas with good complexity and balance. Taste of raisin, cherry, prune, red wine, toast, molasses, caramel, roasted malt, chocolate, earth, tobacco, wood, light cardboard, and herbal. Moderate wine-like earthy tartness on the finish; with lingering notes of dark fruit, toast, roasted malt, chocolate, earth, tobacco, cardboard, and herbal earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Pretty nice flavor balance with good complexity; fair amount of oxidation noticed; slight cloying flavors noticed after the finish. Light carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a creamy, slick, syrupy, and lightly chalky mouthfeel that is decent. Alcohol is fairly well hidden with only a small warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a pretty solid old ale. Some good flavor complexity with decent balance; though a bit cloying, it was quite smooth to sip on. This was fairly enjoyable.

Bottle - not miuch head, very dark amber/brown color, sweet alcohol/malt/port like aroma and flavor, smooth mouthfeel, pretty complex, mild soirness - was surprised it was the 2007 vintage when I ordered the bottle, very matured

Vertical tasting at Craig’s. 2006 and 2007. 2007 pours a lighter red - brown colour with a lacy light tan head. Superb funky Brett nose, a little sweeter with alcohol quite present and quite woody also. Flavours of raisins, cherries, caramel, treacle and leather. Moderate carbonation and CO2 prickle.

Flaske innkjøpt hos Høkeren, København feb-11: et flott eksempel på en nesten utdøende stilart, engelsk old ale. Nesten vinøs i smaken. Synd at det var den siste flasken.

(Bottle) Pours dark brown with oranges hints. The aroma holds wood, cherries, English cider, bread, touch of caramel, subtle fruits and earth. The flavour is light sweet, light acidic and light bitter with notes of dark berries, subtle fruit, fairly robust malt, wood and a whisper of bitter hops. The mouthfeel is round and light sticky with a light carbonation. Cherry-like, earthy and woodsy finish. Medium bodied.

500 ml bottle courtesy of Victor (non-RB). Pours deep amber with a small reddish brownish white head that quickly dissipates without leaving any trace on the glass. Smell is sweet and fruity with dark grapes, wood, caramelized sugar, overripe plums, dark bread, alcohol and mandarin oranges. Taste is sweet, tiny bitter, slightly sour, fruity and malty with dark bread, plums, dark grapes, hay, overripe oranges, burnt sugar and hints of vinegar. Mouthfeel is round, vinous, tiny tart, tiny dry and medium bodied. Finish is tiny sweet, slightly sour and fruity with dark grapes,mplums,d ark bread, vinegar, wood and hints of grass and oranges. 

Bottle @ MMP. Pours clear deep ruby mahogqny with a small ring of off white head. Aroma is sweet raisins fidges dark fruits malty fruity grapes. Flavor is malty acidy sourish bitter pungent fruity rasins alcohol astringent. Finishes sourish malty bitter and fruity.