Vintage Ale 2015
Fuller's Brewery in Chiswick, Greater London, England 🏴
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Series Out of Production|
Score
7.28
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To mark the 50th anniversary of famous British malt variety Maris Otter, we’ve brewed our 19th vintage ale with all British ingredients.
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9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
I took the 2015 version. It is a great ale, a poem of taste in the mouth, bitter, fruity, malty, complex, pleasant copper body, lovely!!!!! 15.06.17, from the grain d'orges, Crissier.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2026
at 14:47
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Lots of Christmas cake, caramel and milk chocolate. Malty slightly oxidated but still decent and excellent winter warmer
Tried
on 04 Jun 2025
at 05:19
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Dark brown pour, with Ruby hues, and a medium beige head. Very malty upfront. Quite sweet and bready with some boozy sherry notes, solid cereals, some nuttiness, and subtle grassy hops. Thick sticky mouthfeel, soft carb. Sweet finish, again very bready and quite boozy. Low bitterness, and a soft grassy hop. I’m afraid with age thiw will only get sweeter, but it should cut the booziness.not as good as past vintages.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:18
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2023
at 20:34
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared by explosivedog: pours amber with beige head. Aroma is toffee and caramel. Taste is sweet, earthy, caramel, low bitterness. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2023
at 03:28
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, courtesy of Max. Pours dark brown. Toffee, caramel, earthy, blackberry, cherry, biscuit. Medium body. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2023
at 03:10
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
From 500ml bottle (no. 100364) on 24/9/2022. Pours an opaque amber with a medium head. Smells malty - lots of toffee and caramel with notes of dark and dried fruit. Rinse and repeat on the sip. Quite sweet, malt and fruit driven, with a touch of Christmas cake to it. Finishes with a moderate sharpish bitterness that works now Celt with the front end. A touch syrupy palate wise with moderate to average carbonation. Tasty, yet nuanced and quite restrained for the size. Lovely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Sep 2022
at 05:35
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Vertical tasting med Steven, denne tok vi etter Vintage 2014, begge halvlitersflasker: klar rødlig kastanjefarge med nydelig cremeskum helt ned. Toffee, svisker, tørkede frukter, ristet brød og delikat citrus. Portvinsvinøs. Myk bitterhet, superb og nærmest uendelig ettersmak. En anelse slankere enn 2014-utgaven, men fortsatt en sublim opplevelse.
Tried
on 17 Aug 2022
at 17:23
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9.5
Bottle at home, Tuesday, 7th December 2021. Pours a chestnut brown and clear. Aroma is dark fruits, caramel and raisins, molasses. Taste is smooth, aged, caramel, dark fruit, burnt sugar, nutty, complex and layered, brown sugar. Delicious Old Ale, stood up very well for a 7 year old bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2021
at 20:47
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
(Bottle) Dark amber colour with frothy, tan head. Fruity, malty nose with notes of apricot marmalade, orange, dried fruit, dates, raisins, honey and floral hops. Malty, fruity taste with apricot marmalade, dried fruit, dates, caramel, honey, orange, flowers and a gentle spicy, earthy bitterness in the finish. More than medium body, sweet. Tasty, warming, smooth and well balanced, but doesn't really stand out as much as many other vintages. Nice one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Nov 2021
at 19:34