Vintage Ale 2023
Fuller's Brewery in Chiswick, Greater London, England 🏴
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Special Out of Production|
Score
7.67
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Our 2023 Vintage Ale combines the best of traditional tastes with new hop varieties to deliver this year's own distinct character. Pale Ale malt is at the heart for delicate sweetness, combined with DRC®, a Double Roasted Crystal malt, to provide deeper toffee and raisin tones. Once more we highlight modern English hops, using Opus, Archer, and CF185 to provide peach accents and a pronounced citrus note, underpinned by the zesty marmalade character of our famous Fuller's yeast.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Utseende: Brun.
Lukt: Malt, karamell, krydder.
Smak: Malt, karamell, krydder.
Skum/kullsyre: Dekkende skum.
Medium: Rating:8-7-7-8-7=7.3, Bottle@500ml, ABV@8.5%, Når@2025.11.28.
Hvor: Bil, Komlefjord
Navn: Vintage Ale 2023
Stil: TRADITIONAL BEER - OLD ALE
Bryggeri: Fuller's Brewery
Lukt: Malt, karamell, krydder.
Smak: Malt, karamell, krydder.
Skum/kullsyre: Dekkende skum.
Medium: Rating:8-7-7-8-7=7.3, Bottle@500ml, ABV@8.5%, Når@2025.11.28.
Hvor: Bil, Komlefjord
Navn: Vintage Ale 2023
Stil: TRADITIONAL BEER - OLD ALE
Bryggeri: Fuller's Brewery
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2025
at 16:50
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Brown with off white head - Malt aroma with caramel - Malt body with caramel flavours and some dark fruity hints - The caramel malt flavours goes into the finish - This was good
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2025
at 15:27
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Lovely UK hops, semi sweet malts, beautiful bready cereals. Figs, candied apples, sherry, grassy Goldings. Medium bitter, extremely satisfying, hoppy, grassy finish, with lovely sharp cereals.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Feb 2025
at 06:54
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
First beer of 2025, drank at home on New Years Day. 500ml bottle # 31660. Amber body, off white crown. Malty front with a toffee like aroma and taste, some light orange marmalade traces came into the flavours late on, nice beer all round.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2025
at 13:30
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tried
on 31 Dec 2024
at 02:14
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle shared with JMD and JFE at JFE’s place 22.12.24. Cloudy brown. Brown head and lacing. Fine taste of pale malt, slightly darker malt, dried tropical fruits, madeira and figs. Good!
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Dec 2024
at 20:41
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Lett tåkete, mørk rav, off white skum. Aroma av sitrus, tre, maripan, marmelade. Smak av karamell, sitrus, koriander, appelsin.
Tried
on 22 Dec 2024
at 20:25
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Decided to clear out the collection this one was next. Really rich malt and hops that resulted in a great flavour and mouthfeel. Really rich and it would probably improve over a few years. And remarkably drinkable.
Tried
on 25 Oct 2024
at 18:33
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up from Waitrose. Pours crystal clear copper with a frothy, eggshell topping; looks immaculate. Medium sweet flavour with well toasted malts, berries, caramel, toffee. Medium bodied with massaging carbonation. Surprisingly little warmth in the finish, given the ABV, with further toasted toffee, a nip of earthy bitterness, more ripening berries. Very tasty and impressively drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Sep 2024
at 20:08
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tried
on 01 Sep 2024
at 08:56