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Marble Old Manchester Ale

Top Tastings 2011

ABV: 7.3%
Origin: Manchester, England
Website: www.marblebeers.co.uk, www.fullers.co.uk

Fuller's head brewer John Keeling with Marble Old Manchester. "Old and from Manchester." Pic: Fuller's

Collaboration beers are especially popular among the new generation of craft brewers, often across national boundaries, and have produced some fascinating results. But here’s one that crosses the generations, bringing together one of Britain’s [...]

Fuller’s Vintage Ale

Top Tastings 2009 / CAMRA North London Tasting 2010 / London beer tastings 2011 / Top Tastings 2011 (2001 vintage)

ABV: 8.5%
Origin: Chiswick, London W6, England
Website: www.fullers.co.uk

A run of Fuller's Vintage Ale poses for the camera, Hock Cellar, Fuller's Brewery, London W6, October 2011

Until the recent resurgence that took everyone by surprise, craft brewing in London [...]

Fuller’s Bengal Lancer

London Beer Tastings 2011.
This beer was featured in a piece on bottle conditioned beers from London in BEER August 2011. Read more about London bottle conditioned beers.

ABV: 5.3%
Origin: Chiswick, London W5, England
Website: www.fullers.co.uk

Fuller's Bengal Lancer

Bengal Lancer was launched in 2009 as Fuller’s contribution to the growing range of India Pale Ales, as well as the [...]

Those One Show recommendations in full…

The One Show

Tonight (Friday 19 August) I should be featured on the One Show on BBC One, talking about the resurgence of British brewing with One Show reporter, Observer restaurant critic and Brixtonian Jay Rayner.

They’ve also asked me to recommend some beers to match with particular foods, sticking as much as possible to beers that [...]

Fuller’s Brewer’s Reserve No 3

Great British Beer Festival 2011
London beer tastings 2011

ABV: 9%
Origin: London W4, England
Website: www.fullers.co.uk

Brewer's Reserve No 3 maturing in whisky barrels in a spare corner of the Fuller's brewery, London W4, January 2011

I make no apologies for choosing a release of Fuller’s Brewer’s Reserve as one of my GBBF beer picks for the second year running [...]

George Gale Prize Old Ale 2007

Top Tastings 2010

ABV: 9%
Origin: Horndean, Hampshire, England

George Gale Prize Old Ale 2007

Gale’s Prize Old Ale is a real slice of British brewing heritage. Created by a Yorkshireman who worked at the company’s 1860s tower brewery in the early 20th century, it perpetuated an already declining technique in British brewing, the long ageing of strong ales [...]

Fuller’s Brewers’s Reserve No 2

Great British Beer Festival 2010

ABV: 7.7%
Origin: London W4, England
Website: www.fullers.co.uk

Fuller's Brewer's Reserve No 2 Limited Edition Oak Aged Ale

The Brewer’s Reserve series is Fuller’s head brewer John Keeling’s limited edition of wood aged beers, starting with a Glenmorangie whisky cask version in 2008. The second edition uses the same beer recipe but matured for a year [...]

Fuller's Vintage Ale 1999, 2005 and 2009

Note this post has been superceded. It has been left here for archival reasons. Read a more complete and up-to-date post about this beer.

Top Tastings 2009
CAMRA North London tasting 2010

ABV: 8%
Origin: Chiswick, London, England
Website: www.fullers.co.uk

Note: tasting notes on further vintages can be found after the main article.

Fuller's Vintage Ale 1999

My favourite beer event of 2009 [...]

Fuller’s 1845 Celebration Strong Ale

Originally published in What’s Brewing July 2002

Origin: Chiswick, London, England, UK
ABV: 6.3%
Buy from: most supermarkets, Fuller’s pubs and off licenses

Fuller's 1845

Alongside its renowned cask conditioned ales, the Griffin brewery for years offered only pasteurised beers in bottle. Then to celebrate the 150th birthday in 1995 Fuller’s brewers looked for inspiration to the brewing practices of [...]


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