Ölbeat 330 (BC17 #17): Fuller's Imperial Stout

Brewery: Fuller's
Country: England
Style: Imperial Stout
Abv: 10,7 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is black with a small tan head. Aroma has strong roast, coffee, dark chocolate and kick of alcohol. Taste starts with bitter strongly roasted malts. Dark chocolate and bittersweet roasted malts take over with hints of espresso. Towards the end malty chocolate and spicy fruity booze rise next to the sweet roasty flavour. Aftertaste has malty roast, bitter dark chocolate and warming sweet alcohol.

Delicious and sweet Imperial Stout. Malty roast and chocolate carry the experience, with coffee, spices, fruits and booze as competent sidekicks. This is also deviously drinkable. Great brew from a great brewery.

Ölbeat

Heavy stuff from the classic London brewery. Simply put, the brew called for another huge London classic, and no one can deny that there's whole lotta love put inside this beer.

Led Zeppelin: Whole Lotta Love (YouTube)

From the 1969 album Led Zeppelin II, the song was written by John Bonham, Willie Dixon, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant.

Ölbeat 320 (BC17 #7): Fuller's Imperial IPA

Brewery: Fuller's 
Country: England
Style: Imperial IPA
Abv: 10,5 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is amber red with a small tan head. Aroma has grape juice, dark fruits and caramel malts. Taste begins with biting fruity bitter caramel malts. Bitter dark fruits and sweet boozy malts take over with hints of sweet citrus. Towards the end boozy piny bitterness rises above the sweet fruity and caramel malty flavours. Aftertaste has piny bitter fruits and malty boozy dryness.

Heavy and biting Imperial IPA. The strong sweet malty presence and piny alcohol pushes this one determinedly towards the direction of barley wine, but I'm not that fussy about the beer style. Powerful show of hops and malts. Not the traditional Fuller's but still rich and great.

Ölbeat

Since I see this beer as a traditional English brewery's showcase on a modern strong American beer style, the music is about London rockstar turning into American Western legend. You don't have to make it identical to be authentically great.

Billy Idol: John Wayne (YouTube)

From the 2008 compilation album The Very Best of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself, the song was written by Billy Idol, Brian Tichy and Derek Sherinian.

Ölbeat 291: Fuller's ESB

Brewery: Fuller's
Country: England
Style: Premium Bitter
Abv: 5,9 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is bright dark orange with a finger-thick white head. Aroma has malts, caramel and some sweet fruit. Taste begins with bittersweet malty bite. Caramel malts dominate with some sweet citrusy flavour. Towards the end sweet caramel flavour gets joined with gentle fruity bitterness. Aftertaste has sweet fruity malts and slightly bitter alcohol.

Shortly put, simple and rather fine Bitter. Classic quality brew with malty caramel lead and fruity bitter side tones. No room for any disappointment here. Surprisingly, it took this long for the first Fuller's brew to show up here. But this won't be the last.

Ölbeat

Classic English ale from the 1970's needs to be paired with classic English 70's rock. And to push any coincidence aside, another thing that connects these two is London. Iron Maiden seemed a bit too rough choice and they have already brewed their Trooper with Robinsons. 

Status Quo: Whatever You Want (YouTube)

From the 1979 album Whatever You Want, the song was written by Rick Parfitt and Andy Bown.