Wednesday 25 November 2009

A brief tasting note

Fuller’s ESB: hop sack meets fruit cake meets grain sack. The rest is silence.

3 comments:

  1. And so it should be. I had it today and the highest praise I could give it, is, compared to the rest of the Fuller's stable, best of a bad lot.

    Except for the Porter though, which is good but too rare.

    All too bloody sweet.

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  2. Surely not.
    London Porter, lovely and lush, preferred by myself on keg as opposed to cask, the underrated Chiswick, the magnificent Vintage — 2005 is drinking particularly well — the lustrous Golden Pride and not forgetting 1845.

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  3. I'm definitely a Fuller's fan. The only beers of their's I don't like are the abysmal Discovery and the pointless Jack Frost. ESB is a real treat for me -- not a session beer, but good for two or three pints without making me feel dog rough.

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