Fusion
Moor Beer Co. in Bristol, Bristol, England 🏴
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.38
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minutemat (16258) reviewed Fusion 2016 from Moor Beer Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bomber @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie Dec 17, courtesy of Simon. Many thanks. Pours dark, thin tan head. Aroma is smooth, chocolatey sweet. Taste is similarly smooth with good chocolate, smooth, soft brandy influence.. nice winter warmer.
Bibax (5406) ticked Fusion 2015 from Moor Beer Co. 8 years ago
Scopey (25115) reviewed Fusion 2012 from Moor Beer Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at Craft Islington - massive thanks to Kenny! It pours darkest brown with a medium dark beige head. The aroma is soft, sweet, sticky, rich, cavlados, apple pie vanilla. must, oiliness and wood. The taste is slick, oily, juicy, sticky, apple pie, jammy fruits, plum, date, prune, grape, earth, wood, touch of umami and earth with a slick finish. Medium - full body and fine carbonation. Great depth of flavour and very well balanced. Great stuff!
Fergus (31329) reviewed Fusion 2012 from Moor Beer Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle shared at CBC Islington 30/10/2017. Many thanks to Kenny for this one. A dark black mahogany brown coloured pour with a loose dirty tan head. Aroma is nutty, malts, cinnamon, apple, plum, rich fruit cake. Flavour is composed of tangy musty grape, cake, woody malts, nutty, . Palate is semi sweet, woody, musty grape. Light funk. Nice.
WingmanWillis (38284) ticked Fusion 2012 from Moor Beer Co. 8 years ago
Iznogud (14627) reviewed Fusion 2014 from Moor Beer Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, 650 ml, courtesy of Max. Shared with him, JFK10000 and Simon. Pours dark brown with tan head. Chocolate, some dark fruit, wood, calvados. Sweet. Medium bodied.
Theydon_Bois (46224) reviewed Fusion 2016 from Moor Beer Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Keg at CP&K, 16/10/17. Black with a moderate tan covering that soon dissipates to nyadda. Nose is root liquorice, black peppery spice, dried berries, toffee, hint of cocoa powder. Taste comprises sweet tones, aniseed, fruit bon bons, raisins, stewed dates, pinch of spice, fruit slice, light oak. Full body, fine carbonation, warming alcohol in the close. Decent stuff ... good balance ... liquid fruit cake.
Fergus (31329) reviewed Fusion 2016 from Moor Beer Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
At cask. An opaque black brown coloured pour with a a halo of tan head. Aroma is lovely brown sugars, grape, vanilla, woody, bark, jammy fruits.. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, spicy woody, vanilla, cakey malts, grape, jammy fruits.. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, sticky sweet.. Good.
Leighton (34941) reviewed Fusion 2016 from Moor Beer Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Keg at CPK - Pimlico. Pours clear, deep brown with a small, foamy khaki head. The nose has a lot of dried berries, some stewed apples,torched wood, blackberry, licorice. Medium sweet flavour with some oily vanilla, more burnt wood, jammy berries, a little woody-earthy bitterness, raisins, leather. Medium to full bodied, lightly chewy, massaging carbonation and velvety texture. Lightly warming finish, with nips of burnt marshmallows, some more ripe apples, leathery berries, alcohol, woody bitterness. Really interesting stuff, but could be more cohesive.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Fusion 2014 from Moor Beer Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Vintage bomber (66 cl), the 2014 edition of this cider brandy barrel aged old ale, found at Dranken De Moor in Haasdonk in rural Flanders, who stores several Moor beers just because of the name, weirdly so, but very happy to have stumbled on this totally unexpected find. Lightly lacing, bit irregular, moussy, pale yellowish beige head, firm on the edges but slowly opening in the middle yet eventually dissolving into as good as nothing, over a very dark mahogany brown beer, practically black, with hazy burgundy edges. Noble, rich bouquet of hazelnut paste, chestnuts, dried figs, calvados, toffee, vanilla-ish oak, wet wood in general, old dusty cocoa powder, rum-soaked raisins, hints of wet leather, elderberries, Poire William, cold tea, toasted almond, cinnamon, black pudding, dried autumn leaves, liquorice candy, diluted coffee grounds, blue grape, dry dusty clay, brown bread crust and a subtle touch of port-like oxidation in its most flattering form, adding an extra, thin layer of complexity. Sweetish, clean onset, lots of dried fig and dried berries, black cherry touch, dim sourish undertone but dried fruit sweetness prevails, light dried porcini-like umami accent providing a nicely positioned meaty counterbalance agains the sweetishness; softish carbonation, smooth, slick, very supple and bit oily mouthfeel, with the right amount of thickness for the old ale style (i.e. feeling less thick than one would expect from an 8% ABV beer if it were any other style, like stout or quadrupel). Lean, fully nutty malt middle, toffeeish and very lightly caramelly edges providing sweetness but briefly thereafter countered by a lovely toasty bitterness (burnt toast, toasted walnuts), malt really shines here, while some of the dried fruit aspects linger on. Drying, spicy, warming and fairly complex finish: a continuation of the toasty and nutty malt bittersweetness, almost stout-like with even a subtle roasted black coffeeish touch in the end, a peppery, leafy hop bitterness adding late but effective and eventually quite long-lasting herbal spiciness, a touch of retronasal oxidation in its most noble shape, some drying woody tannins matching perfectly with the toasted aspect and the hops, and of course the expected, very warming yet hardly astringent afterglow of calvados-like alcohol, even a slight calvados-like taste that stays behind after swallowing, along with the nutty and toasty maltiness and something pleasantly ’powdery’ from the yeast, which, in combination with retronasal malt aromas, even comes across a bit as dusty, very old cocoa powder. This brewery shortly preceded the advent of American (or, in today’s context, ’international’) craft brewing in old England, but like e.g. Struise have done in Belgium, embraced it when it came along without ignoring the old and proud local brewing traditions; this is one such beer, an ’old ale’ (though perhaps a tad too dark and toasted for that - could pass for a porter or even a stout just as well) aged on barrels that previously held a local kind of liquor... Great idea in my book, one can sense both the connection with international trends here, and with the traditional, noble, old English roots. Beautiful malt-forward beer, barrel-aged in a very palpable yet still not overdone way; age, if anything, only made it a bit more ’deep’, adding a subtle amount of old port-like oxidation and (likely) mellowing the alcohol effect a bit. I’m always glad when I find a vintage bottle like this, since beers of this stature are best with a few years of proper aging behind them, and I rarely have the patience to do this myself anyway... Very nice beer, it may take some knowledge of the traditional English ’old ale’ concept to fully appreciate its subtleties, but there is no denying that Moor makes some very noble beers - and this is one of those. Apparently they have been doing this series since 2009 or so, so who knows, maybe another one will cross my path one day...