Vintage Ale 2000
Fuller's Brewery in Chiswick, Greater London, England 🏴
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Series Out of Production|
Score
7.50
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85,000 bottles of Vintage Ale were produced with an organic theme, using Champion Optic Malt and Organic Target Hops. A fresh hop aroma with notes of honey and toffee, leads to a slightly sweeter taste and burnt, bitter aftertaste.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle at Caspar’s Running Toilet Tasting. Pours rich auburn with a foamy, off-white head. Strong leather nose, some dark fruit, slight tang. Quite a sweet flavor with palpable oxidation, robust leather, slight must, candied fruits, and toasted sugar. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Warm finish with a bit more sting than even younger vintages, lingering leather, some tangy fruits, a slight ’staleness’ that isn’t altogether a bad thing. Has surprising kick given the age. Nowhere nearly as mellow as 2002-2006. Quite a departure from the other years.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2011
at 14:16
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle purchased from the brewery website & consumed with Trev 17.06.11 Pours mid amber a touch hazy with a white head. This is surprisingly soft on the tongue, there is some warmth permeating through the mouth, a bitterness remains throughout. Some dark dried fruits, there is a touch of oxidisation otherwise it is still remarkably good. A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov16 3.9
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jun 2011
at 23:10
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Amber with a small tan head. Malty aroma of biscuit and caramel with some marmalade. Dusty oxidized cardboard notes. Sweet malty flavour with strong marmalade fruity note, and bitter finish. Clearly too old, or not aged well.
Tried
on 01 Nov 2010
at 16:14
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cloudy mahogany with a huge beige head. Sweet flavour with overripe fruits, slightly oxydized, roasted malt, caramel and hints of hops. The slightly oxydized flavour had roasted malt, caramel, overripe fruits, hops and toffee. Finished dry and bitter. Not bad.
Tried
on 17 Jun 2010
at 09:21
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
50 cL bottle #1506, courtesy of ChristianScheffel. Pours cloudy deep amber with a small tan head. Aroma is dark malty, overripe fruity and somewhat oxidised. Smooth malty, dark roasted malt, oxidised. Slight bitter and herbal. Lasting dark malty and oxidised impression. Bitter and dry into the finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jun 2010
at 09:20
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 2010-06-05, Göteborg, thx to Jonte (bought at brewery!) No 56601 AR: hobbits nest (dug-out), AP: amber clody F: vinous, sweetness, oak barrell, medium low bitterness
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2010
at 13:31
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle, thanks to Jonte!On June 5, 2010Cloudy brown color, white head. Scent is mouldy wood potatoe boxes in adamp cellar, some coca-cola as well. Lactic, vinous, sweet, caramel, mouldy wood taste. Smooth mouthfeel, low bitterness
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2010
at 06:48
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
No 39171 - 1 pt 2.6 fl oz bottle shared by beastiefan2k. Pour is a hazed ruby orange with an off white head that falls quick. Aroma is cardboard, along with a somewhat sharp earthiness - certainly oxidized. Taste is initially caramel malt sweetness, sherry, Madeira notes - turning quick to cardboard, then thinning and drying out with a dusty dirt earthy finish. Palate is medium, surprisingly active carbonation along with the aforementioned dried dusty finish. There was a nice beer here at one point I am sure, but this bottle is over the hill. Enjoyed trying it, thanks for sharing Eugene - I loved the story of how you got this one!
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Mar 2010
at 07:24
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Medium offwhite head. Hazy reddish brown body. Old blanket and watery caramel and old books aroma. Dry-sweetish caramelly old books and linoleum taste with fruity grassy notes. Fullish body. Mild, faintly hot mouthfeel. Dryish hot earthy caramel aftertaste with linoleum notes. Also orange zest and mint.. Excellent and very interesting. (0.5l bottle shared by KnutAlbert.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2010
at 04:13
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
31st July 2008. Very sweet beer. Pronounced red fruity start, raspberries plus subtler strawberry and cherry. This is followed by a sweet creamy malt with a whisper of milk chocolate. The abv is well disguised in this easy drinking complex beer.
Tried
on 15 Nov 2009
at 12:51