Beer review: Fuller's London Porter (5.4% England: Fuller's Brewery)

The Fuller's London Porter is an Ale, more specifically a Porter. It's brewed by Fuller's Brewery, a medium-sized British independent brewery located in Chiswick, London. The company was founded in 1845 and currently produces about 26 million liters annually. The Fuller's London Porter is widely regarded as the World's Finest Porter: having won awards all over the world, London Porter is regularly voted the number one Porter on beer websites such as www.ratebeer.com. Sounds really promising!

Taste: The Fuller's London Porter is a medium/full-bodied beer with a very sophisticated and mature taste. It starts with the flavor of brown bread with notes of caramel and faint notes of sweet fruit. This is followed by a roasted, quite sweet bready flavor and the beer finishes with some chocolate, roasted coffee, smoky aromas and a faint hoppiness.

Overall, the Fuller's London Porter is an excellent beer. I'm personally into Porters and Stouts but they're easily a bit too overwhelming and demand quite a lot from the drinker. Therefore, it's easy to understand the world-wide popularity and fame of the Fuller's London Porter: it's the easiest Porter that I've ever tasted. It's easy to enjoy and yet it offers a very wide range of sophisticated and mature aromas. It's an excellent stepping-stone into the more demanding world of Imperial Stouts, which in the eyes of many beer connoisseurs are the ultimate taste experiences in these types of beer. To put it short, the Fuller's London Porter is the best porter I've ever tasted!

95

Beer review: Fuller's ESB (5.9% England: Fuller's Brewery)

The Fuller's ESB is an ale, more specifically an extra special/strong bitter. It's brewed by Fuller's Brewery, a medium-sized British independent brewery located in Chiswick, London. The company was founded in 1845 and currently produces about 26 million liters annually. The beer was launched in 1971 and has won three CAMRA Beer of the Year awards, two World Champion Beer awards, and numerous other gold medals. Sounds really promising!

Taste: The Fuller's ESB offers a very varied and mature medium-bodied taste. It offers aromas of sweet malt, fruits and berries, nuts, some toffee and caramel. The beer then moves on to deliver the characteristic bitterness which is quite smooth and round, and then finishes with a herbal, faintly citric hoppiness.

Overall, the Fuller's ESB is a very sophisticated bitter with quite easy drinkability. It's very easy to enjoy and it can basically be used as the benchmark of what a bitter should taste like. It succeeds in delivering all the qualities expected in a bitter, and does it in a very enjoyable manner. If you're into bitters and haven't tried this one out, do it now! I'm not giving the beer a full score since I'm personally not that much into bitters and because the aromas could perhaps be a bit stronger (although this would decrease the drinkability of the beer). I haven't given a top score to any IPA because I'm still looking for the perfect one, and the same goes with bitters, although the Fuller's ESB gets quite close!

90 Exceptional

Beer review: Fuller's Organic Honey Dew (5.0% England: Fuller's Brewery)

The Fuller's Organic Honey Dew is an ale, more specifically a honeyed blond ale. It's brewed by Fuller's Brewery, a medium-sized British independent brewery located in Chiswick, London. The company was founded in 1845 and currently produces about 26 million liters annually.

Taste: The Fuller's Organic Honey Dew is a medium-bodied beer with a sweet honey-dominant flavor. The beer is very sweet (a bit too sweet to my taste) and the honey flavor overrides the faint aromas of sweet malt. The beer finishes with a faint hoppiness and dryness.

Overall, the Fuller's Organic Honey Dew is a really honey-dominant beer so if you're into that, this is definitely the right choice of beer for you. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of honey, although I don't hate it either. The beer became overly sweet really quick and since it doesn't offer much else, it was a slight disappointment. However, if you're looking for a sweet nectar-like beer, this might be your choice.

60 Above average

Beer review: Fuller's Black Cab Stout (4.5% England: Fuller's Brewery)

The Fuller's Black Cab Stout is a stout, more specifically a dry stout. It's brewed by Fuller's Brewery, a medium-sized British independent brewery located in Chiswick, London. The company was founded in 1845 and currently produces about 26 million liters annually.

Taste: The Fuller's Black Cab Stout is a medium-bodied beer with flavors of roasted, bready malt, chocolate and coffee. The beer then continues with sweet aromas of caramel and finishes with a touch of bitterness.

Overall, the Fuller's Black Cab Stout is a really nice, sophisticated beer. It's slightly more watery than some of the other stouts that I've tried, but considering the low percentage of alcohol, it delivers a really aroma-rich flavor. A really nice supermarket strength beer.

85 Great