Vintage Ale 2012
Fuller's Brewery in London, Greater London, England 🏴
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Series Out of Production|
Score
7.32
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The 2012 Vintage Ale, our 16th, is brewed with three of this year’s finest hop varieties including, Goldings, award winning Sovereign and Target hops. These combined with our unique yeast and organic barley grown by Sir James Fuller on the Neston Park Estate result in a wonderful limited edition brew that has a luxurious flavour.
Individually packed and numbered, this bottle is one of only one hundred and twenty five thousand produced
Although we are obliged to state a best before date of 2015, like a fine wine or whisky, this mellow golden ale will improve with age for many more years
Being bottle conditioned, the beer will form a natural sediment, so pour carefully, sit back, and enjoy this, the very finest of Fuller’s ales.
Individually packed and numbered, this bottle is one of only one hundred and twenty five thousand produced
Although we are obliged to state a best before date of 2015, like a fine wine or whisky, this mellow golden ale will improve with age for many more years
Being bottle conditioned, the beer will form a natural sediment, so pour carefully, sit back, and enjoy this, the very finest of Fuller’s ales.
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8/10
RB score 3.69
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2025
at 04:24
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Gorgeous copper pour with a fluffy off white head. The nose is a little dull, light goldings, sweet, biscuity malts, and some alcohol. Mouthfeel is a little thick, carb is soft. The finish is very sweet, lots of booze, and some doppelbock like maltiness. The hops drop off completely and leave a low bitterness in the finish with some alcohol warming. This needs some age. But still a nice nightcap beer.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:36
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle from Fullers Brewery, Chiswick, London. An amber/orange coloured pour with a thinnish off white head on top. Sweet aroma of caramel and dark fruit. Tastes very sweet indeed, boozy, caramel, warming. Possibly past its best now but the aroma on this is superb.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Apr 2024
at 14:30
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottle. Amber color. Floral, almost soapy aroma and flavor. malty sweetish. Orange peels. Soft floral hopbitter aftertaste. Slightly disappointing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:06
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle n. 26624 from Viti's, Vancouver
Hazy golden color. It has a nice cereals and malt base, moderately sweet, with hints of toffee, pudding, raisins, quite low bitterness, and average alcohol feeling. Bit of vegetables too.
Good.
Hazy golden color. It has a nice cereals and malt base, moderately sweet, with hints of toffee, pudding, raisins, quite low bitterness, and average alcohol feeling. Bit of vegetables too.
Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2018
at 03:35
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Flaska från SB drucken med Svensson. Den äldsta vintage jag druckigt men kanske också den bästa. Perfekt balans och både kraft och djup i smakerna. Syltade apelsinskal med en hel del beska, ljunghonung, fudge, torkad frukt, sirap, karamell. En närmast perfekt modern klassisk engelsk strong ale. Rund och len och fin fin balans. Så gott.
Tried
on 01 Feb 2018
at 19:47
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Flaska från SB drucken med Lilja. Den äldsta vintage jag druckigt men kanske också den bästa. Perfekt balans och både kraft och djup i smakerna. Syltade apelsinskal med en hel del beska, ljunghonung, fudge, torkad frukt, karamell. En närmast perfekt modern klassisk engelsk strong ale. Så gott.
Tried
on 04 Jan 2018
at 07:03
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml bottle shared at Alex's. Pours a murky copper with a white head. Aroma is malty and dark fruits. Taste is very sweet with caramel and dark fruits notes. Too sweet for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2017
at 23:36
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Aroma is grapes, spices, phenols, raisins. Taste is raisins, some christmas spices and more phenols. Quite drinkable. Pretty nice.
Tried
on 07 Dec 2017
at 14:38
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Milky red amber, offwhite lace. Not as oxidized as the 2014 version. Spice, light leather, toffee. Plumpudding, a hint wood, hint of citric hops. Medium full mellow body. Citrus brandy finish - tastes surprisingly fresh. Wood and leather aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2017
at 14:32