Although Fuller’s best known beer is probably London Pride, their ESB is arguably the best beer in their standard lineup. That’s not just me saying that, as ESB has twice been crowned World Champion Beer. This collaboration with Moor Beer isn’t just about rebrewing that stalwart, though. They’ve taken the original 1971 recipe, and enhanced it… Read more »
Forgive me for saying so, but Cloudwater have always felt a bit…. cult-y to me. Their beers seem to attain legendary status before the yeast has settled, and that (combined, to be fair, with their usually substantial ABV) drives the price into “you have got to be joking” territory. Their DIPAs are the pinnacle of… Read more »
Although the brewer in me knows that ‘lager’ is, ultimately, nothing more than a technical term I’m also aware that, in mainstream UK terms, ‘lager’ is a fairly specific thing – it’s light and crisp and generally fairly subtly-hopped. It’s somewhere that’s usually safe to go when a non-beery friend says “oh just get me… Read more »
I’ve been quite a fan of Fuller’s for some years, ever since I worked out that my initial lack of enthusiasm was caused not by the beer itself, but by the lacklustre cellarmanship of our local Fuller’s pub which had made me think that Pride was this bland and slightly funky tasting pint. After visiting… Read more »
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