Bottle @ chriso. Pours a slightly hazy amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty caramel and toffee aroma. Sweetish malty toffee flavor with weak dark fruit hints and also weak cherry hints. Has a fruity malty toffee and dark fruit finish.

Bottle at chriso’s Fullers/Gales Tasting, thanks to Paul. Pours cloudy, amber-gold with a fine, bubbly head. Ripe fruits and honey in the aroma. Very sweet flavor, lots of candies, caramel, alcohol and toffee, as well as ripe fruits. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation. Mild warming finish, alcohol notes, sweet and ripe fruits, mild tang, slight age comes through, a bit of caramel. Pretty nice. I would say definitely NOT a re-badge of POA.

Bottle at Chriso’s Fullers-Gales Tasting, purchased a few years back from the Fuller’s brewery. It pours cloudy orange-amber, with a thin off-white film. The nose is toffee, sticky fruit, Christmas cake and spice (much sweeter than the regular 2006 POA). The taste is full of caramel, toffee, brown sugar, lots of wood and some dried fruit, with a warming finish. Full body and fine, prickly carbonation. Much sweeter and less fruit than the regular POA 2006 and missing the great sweet-sour aspect that makes POA so enjoyable.

Bottle at Chriso FullersGales Tasting. 2006. Thanks to Scopey from the Fullers brewery. Toffee sweetness aroma. Less bitter. Some vinous fruit. Has some sharp raspberry pippiness. Yes some good red fruits. Some sweetness. Some harsh pepper bitterness. Compared with Harvest Ale not great.

Bottle at The Shoulder of Mutton, Wantage, Oxon, 29.07.11 that Peter Fowler (landlord) shared with us Pours hazy amber there is even a light orangey tinge to this. Interestingly we drank this alongside Gales Prize Old Ale which I think was either 2006 or 2007 it was the last Gales Prize Old Ale brewed at Gales but which was then bottled at Fullers I believe. I understood that there were suggestions that these two beers were one and the same beer which to be honest both being 9% I had also gone along with. However they were really quite different the Last Drop had a very different colour and also was much sweeter, it had none of the tangy, fruity, sourness of the Gales Prize Old Ale and was nowhere near as complex, in fact I was a little disappointed and much preferred the Gales Prize Old Ale the only similarity that I could see was that the Last Drop shared the old style bottle that the Gales Prize Old Ale used be served in. So whilst absolutely fine the Last Drop it may benefit from a few more years of ageing to realise its full potential. A6 A3 T7 P4 Ov13 3.3

(Bottle. Many thanks to SaintMatty) Hazy amber colour with brief, bubbly head. Fruity, malty nose with notes of citrus, dried apricots, orange peel and hints of cellar. Slightly vinous. Fruity, malty taste with orange, citrus peel, apricots, treacle, fruit cake and a cirtussy bitterness in the finish. Some warming alcohol towards the end. More than medium body, fairly sweet. Almost no carbonation. Excellent brew.

Bottle: Amber, hazy, lots of floaties visible, smaller fluff-white head; molasses, malt and dried fruits in the shy nose; solid sweetish-sourish flavour, full bodied; alcohol burn in the port-like and bitter finish. Not that good.........

275ml bottle 16Mar06–pours a dissipating foam/bubbly off white head and cloudy amber color. Aroma is fruit-orange, medium malt-caramel, herbal hops. Then prune/pineapple. Taste is medium malt-caramel, alcohol, citrus, herbal/pine-ish hops, prune. A lot going on, although not my taste. Nose can be put under an old ale, taste under ESA (possibly from conditioning for 3+ years). Thanks to Joe-jwc215 for bring this back from his trip across the pond.