Fuller's Vintage Ale 1999
I’ve featured the 2002 vintage of this ale on my bloglast year. This 1999 version was purchased from the Dove Inn for only 3 quid a few weeks ago and is 8.5 in strength. This version of the beer is brewed with Champion Fuggles
hops and Champion Optic malt.
Nose: port sherry and toffee with the fuller’s strawberry jam yeast coming through.
Pallet: extremely thick in the mouth with big flavours of liquorish and butterscotch. Almost whiskylike in some ways. Stewed fruits and immense. Like a good red wine.
Finnish: lingering almost like a good port or medira.
Comment: one of the finest ales I’ve tasted. The bottle maturation worked and proves that beer has as much to offer as wines and spirits, something to linger over and a bargain for what I paid. As clare put it, it’s the same aje as Jaid!!
hops and Champion Optic malt.
Nose: port sherry and toffee with the fuller’s strawberry jam yeast coming through.
Pallet: extremely thick in the mouth with big flavours of liquorish and butterscotch. Almost whiskylike in some ways. Stewed fruits and immense. Like a good red wine.
Finnish: lingering almost like a good port or medira.
Comment: one of the finest ales I’ve tasted. The bottle maturation worked and proves that beer has as much to offer as wines and spirits, something to linger over and a bargain for what I paid. As clare put it, it’s the same aje as Jaid!!
Labels: beer, beer review, fuller's
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