Fuller's Jack Frost

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

500 ml capped bottle. Poured in a shaker pint a clear burgundy-brown coloured ESB with a short one finger beige foamy head that had a long retention and tons of micro bubbles. Soft carbonation. Some lacing. The aroma is toasted malts, caramel, dark fruits, blackberries, raspberries. The flavour is sweety caramel malts, bready, dark fruits, berries, plums and a clear floral hoppy bitterness. The mouthfeel is prickly and a bit sticky. This light bodied ESB has a dry sourish fruity bitter finish. A decent ESB.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Bottle. Red amber coloured with a slim off-white head. Fruity and malty aroma, smells like Fuller’s. You can taste the blackberries and they work pretty well, alongside the malt and caramel. A nice and subdued hoppy bitter finish. Medium body, moderate carbonation. A good pasteurised bitter.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

I like this one - seems more fruity and alive than your average ESB. Has a lot of british character - much like the london pride. Not my favourite bitter, but certainly holds a candle to some of the finest.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Bottled. Brown colour with red hints, not much head. Hoppy and fruity aroma with hints of berries. Bitter hoppy flavour with hints of berries and fruit. Pretty typical British ESB... Gets boring after about half a glass. Short aftertaste. 5 6 6 4 5

Cask. Deep nutbrown colour with small bubbly beigeish brown head. Aroma is flowery hoppy as well as some wooden notes. Flavour is hay, grass and some flowery hops and wood. 5 5 6 5 5