Vintage Ale 2025
Fuller's Brewery in Chiswick, Greater London, England 🏴
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Special|
Score
7.67
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All of our Vintage Ales are very special bottle conditioned beers. We’ve created a new recipe every year since 1997, picking the best ingredients at the time, to make a strong beer with a complex character.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500ml bottle from Waitrose - Clear copper body with a short off-white head. Good caramel character with a big boost of alcohol, sweetness from a sugary barley sugar candy, warming and fulfilling.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Waitrose Supermarket (Various locations)
on 04 Jun 2026
at 21:08
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle share with Sir Alex Straight outta Bury. Pours amber copper with a thick creamy head. Deep dried Dark fruit, caramel, toffee and Earth. Its Smooth and has a good bitter finish. A touch of marmelade. One of the better years.. (4.0) I still need to wing off 98, 2001 and 2003.
Tried
on 14 May 2026
at 02:48
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Craig's. Pours clear golden amber, nose is caramel, toffee, marzipan, stewed fruit, taste is bitter, almond, berries, caramel, toffee. 8
Tried
on 24 Apr 2026
at 07:36
8/10
Red/brown color.
Sweet and malty.Marmalade aroma and flavour.
Caramel and hops.
Medium bitterness.Gets smoother and drier towards the end.
Bbe:12/2028
Sweet and malty.Marmalade aroma and flavour.
Caramel and hops.
Medium bitterness.Gets smoother and drier towards the end.
Bbe:12/2028
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2026
at 20:53
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
EB - Bottle 500ml. @ [ Petalax 🇫🇮 💻👀 Virtual Tasting ] - fonefan & Brugmansia House. 🏠🇩🇰 🍀 ☁️☂️ [ As Fuller's Vintage Ale 2025 ]. ABV: 8.4%. [20260308]. 8/4/7-/4/15
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2026
at 16:09
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Copper colour, small off-white head. Aroma is fruity, biscuity and some mild nutty tones with mild alcohol as well. Flavour is floral, fruity, some biscuity and mild caramel tones with mild nuts. OK, but feels a bit thin.
Tried
from Bottle
from Alko (Webshop)
on 06 Feb 2026
at 16:36
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
50cl bottle at Vasa tasting.
Poured mahogany in color.
Malty and fruity with wood and some dark fruits. Strong, warming, almondy notes. Rough edges.
Poured mahogany in color.
Malty and fruity with wood and some dark fruits. Strong, warming, almondy notes. Rough edges.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2026
at 15:16
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
[50cl bottle, #055722, from Waitrose, Bracknell.] An attractive golden copper coloured pour with a thick cream coloured head; aroma of raisins and figs; the usual complex taste - orange marmalade, sweet figs and dates and light biscuity grains, combined with a deep leathery bitterness that lingers long into the finish which brings a very peasant warmth to the throat, as well as more dates and caramel. An annual treat.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Waitrose Supermarket (Various locations)
on 31 Jan 2026
at 20:00
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8
Delt med K-O på Vesterbotn.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Vinmonopolet Tromsø, Langnes
on 24 Jan 2026
at 19:30
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
Bottle from Waitrose, West Byfleet. Opaque amber-chestnut. Thick foamy light beige head. Aroma has entwined berries, caramel, glue and marmalade. The flavour has a bitter woody edge running throughout, which is the first thing I noticed. There are then sweet carmalised fruits and citrus. Light-medium bodied. Soft-fizzy carbonation. Long dry astringent finish. Punchy interesting stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Waitrose Supermarket (Various locations)
on 31 Dec 2025
at 23:40