Vintage Ale 2025
Fuller's Brewery in Chiswick, Greater London, England 🏴
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Special|
Score
7.66
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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.
omhper (44752) reviewed Vintage Ale 2025 from Fuller's Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottled, from Systembolaget. Almost clear copper colour, mid sized head. Spicy, piney, leafy nose with caramel and bread. Mid sweet with medium to full body and rounded mouthfeel. Caramel, tobacco and leaves. Spicy bitter finish.
RuneBlix (26316) reviewed Vintage Ale 2025 from Fuller's Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
500ml bottle, No 010836. One of the best this year. Yuletide enjoyment. ( Tromsø, 24.12.2025).
gave a cheers!
Gerbeer (8214) reviewed Vintage Ale 2025 from Fuller's Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
500 ml bottle. Pours a darkish mahogany with light head. Aromas of toasted malts, a bit of caramel and an alcohol. Flavors of dry caramel, some earthy bitter hops and a lot of toasted malts. Not really a fan of this vintage. Just OK.
pilsnerrogge (4763) reviewed Vintage Ale 2025 from Fuller's Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle #034194. Pours copper red with a dense head. Aroma is toffee, dried plums and red currants. Smooth moutfeel. Flavour is toffe, licorice and dried plums.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Vintage Ale 2025 from Fuller's Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
500mL bottle, pours a clear dark burgundy with a medium beige head. Nose has a great, complex English malt character upfront—butterscotch, bready caramel, toffee—with gentle dark dried fruits in back. Flavour has plenty of butterscotch, bready caramel, dry toffee, and some dark dried fruits. Great malt character showcasing that dry butterscotch character. Real nice as usual.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Vintage Ale 2025 from Fuller's Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle No. 002974. Golden-amber, alight haze and a thick head. Rich, chewy malt. Apple, stone fruit yeast profile, and a fairly robust English hop bitterness. Lots of alcohol in the finish. This is a good English barley wine.
Joe19612 (603) reviewed Vintage Ale 2025 from Fuller's Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle conditioned. Pours a dark amber colour with a tight white head, plenty of hops and fruit in the aroma, the taste is medium bitterness with a dry malt finish.
DavrosIX (1291) reviewed Vintage Ale 2025 from Fuller's Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Part of my home made no surprise advent calendar. Perfect pour - but because I totally messed up the 2024 last night and wasn't got to repeat that. I've had a bloody busy day of dog walking, gardening and car washing and I'm knackered. And I've been looking forward to this all day. And it doesn't disappoint. This is a classic souped up English bitter. Rich malt, bitter hops and a big hit of alcohol. And it tastes young. Cellar this properly and it will only improve over the next few years. There is a residual malt sweetness that comes out as it develops. And I'm not keen on sweet. It meant that I had to review my scoring. It's good though.
Sigmund (14587) reviewed Vintage Ale 2025 from Fuller's Brewery 1 month ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
500 ml bottle in cardboard box, from Vinmonopolet, Nettbutikken. ABV is 8.4%. Beautiful clear amber colour, large to moderate off-white head. Pleasant aroma of malts, toffee, caramel and dark dried fruits. Flavour with the same elements, also notes of stewed fruits, a moderate hop bitterness in the finish.
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