The Story of Fuller's Vintage Ale (Keep Cask Alive pt 5) | The Craft Beer Channel
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- Опубліковано 26 жов 2021
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It's the finale of our Keep Cask Alive series, and we're visiting the brewery that made it all possible - Fuller's. Join us as we get the story behind one of the UK's most sought after beers and find out how it represents everything that's great about cask ale and traditional British brewing, but also points to where the scene can go in the future as it looks for a place in the modern brewing world.
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Genuinely a bit saddened the series is over 😢 more mini docs please!
I had never drink a cask before, and watching this whole series did helped me to understand what to look into when I drink my first one. Honestly thank you mates for doing this, I’m 37 and looking for my first cask this winter … I’ll keep informed
Any luck?
PREACH! Having lived in London, too many Britons don't know what a unique and wonderful style of beer they have in their own backyard with cask ale. It took me too long to catch on as well, and I just happened to be living right across the Thames from the Fuller's Griffon Brewery in Chiswick at the time. There's absolutely nothing like true British cask ale. Keep spreading the word, boys!
Really like most years of Vintage Ale, I tend to get at least 3 bottles each year, one for this Christmas, one for next Christmas and one to build up a vertical for my next round number birthday.
Great series! I hope you do more and more; especially the documentaries. I loved your American documentary.
As a cask ale drinker, I whole heartedly support your efforts! Hopefully we get Unesco status!
I was waiting for this one! Cheers from México, lads!
I have in my cellar a 2013, 2014, 2015 Vintage, the importer stopped bringing it them to Mx, we just get L Porter, L Pride, IPA and Black Cab, sometimes 1845. Fuller's is one pf the breweries that changed my perspective of beer back in 2005.
Well that was brilliant, Fullers! I've had a Fullers ESB here in New Zealand!! So cool to see such a traditional brewery putting as much care, passion and experimentation in to their beer as a little small brewery would. Also really nice that the brewers talk to all of the staff, even if it has to be over a few pints to loosen lips haha, about the beer. People are the most important ingredient in beer after all! 😎 thanks so much for the journey Guys, it's just the beginning... cheers! Mike from Forgotten 43 Brewery here in New Zealand 🍻🍻🍻🤙
The first time I had Cask in Syracuse NY it was at a English Style Pub in downtown Syracuse Calle Clark’s Ale House,They only served one sandwich and a great cheese menu and had four to five beers on tap at all times including one cask beer offering.The first cask I had was Fullers and it mad a big expression on me and from that point on I was a cask fan !
Absolutely brilliant series!! I've really enjoyed watching every episode. The traditions of making and serving cask definately needs to be kept alive. It's everything for so many people. It's not just the beer it's memories for the older generation drinking with friends and families. Thank you guys for making something incredibly special to watch.
Excellent series gents, as it is well worth shouting this amazing British product from the rooftops. I also think the UNESCO idea is inspired and a way for both the world and our own governments to actually consider ways to protect and actively support it.
What a great series! This deserves to be shown to the masses so we can realise the importance of cask ale. I will try to do my bit. Good work guys. I'm off to the pub.
Coopers Brewery is a family owned brewery here in South Australia for just over 150years. By pommy standards probably a very young brewery. Coopers launch a ‘ Vintage’ every year and hold a degustation event for the launch. I was lucky enough to get an invitation and I must say, it was an awesome day out. The vintage is highly sought after. If you’re lucky enough to live here, get on it 👍🍻🇦🇺
I have seen Coopers for sale in some places in Ireland.
Get it protected!! Cheers!!!
Even before the video had ended I ordered some Vintage ales online 😁😁
Really hope it comes to Canada again this year, I have the 2017 and 2018 aging nicely. Excellent series gents! 🍻
To celebrate this series I think I'll drink a Vintage 2016 as I have two. Then soon (with help) drink the other 2013-2018s.
Yeah, I’ve got a couple of 2016s too. I’m keeping each one until they’re 10 years old and then I’ll drink each one as they get to that age. I’ve got all of them from 2012 to 2020.
I just discovered your channel a week or two ago. You have great content and this series was just fantastic. Here in the States, cask beer is uncommon. Some craft breweries will keep one cask tap, but I wish more of them would. Keep up the great work. Cheers from Texas.
This was a fantastic series, so much so that I made sure to visit as many pubs as I could on a three day trip to Suffolk and try all the cask beer I could get my hands on
Guys, thank you so much for this series! It increased my love for cask ale even more (never thought that this was possible) Cheers and all the best to you from the bottom of my heart.
Was very happy to find some Fullers Vintage at my local liquor store here in Canada (at huge expense). My local breweries have an amazing array of pale ales and craft beers but there’s nothing quite like a decent cask ale.
I’ve really enjoyed this series and my interest in cask has certainly returned! However, to do a series on cask and not visit east anglia is nothing short of criminal! I shall have to cry in to my pint of Southwold and/or Wherry! Keep up the excellent content gents 👌🏻
I have recently moved to London and I have only ever drank cask ale. I am the king of cask
Wanted to hit the like button twice, but it registers just once........thanks for making this video and showing us Fullers. Cask ale is truly a british heritage style and none of the big macro breweries of the world can make such an authentic style and experience for the customer........save cask ale........cheers
Great series guys. Cask ale should be protected and I love the UNESCO idea. Cask ale is lively. It's vibrant. And, so full of flavour. From the different malts and hops, each brewer has their own recipes that make it possible for a huge variety of taste buds. Glad you did a piece on the Vintage Ale. I am a huge Fullers Vintage Ale fan. Usually buy a couple of boxes of the stuff every year. The Fullers Vintage Ale is a great beer for a cool crisp fall/winter night, and we get a few of those here in Canada. Cheers guys. Good job!
i've brewed my own vintage ales every year for many years. both an old ale and an imperial stout. it is really interesting to taste them over the years.
I have bought a bottle of this every year since I got into beer. Believe 2018 was my first. Will definantly be buying a few bottles this year. Save one drink one. I’ve got a 2020 in cupboard, already drank my 2018 and 2019 after a year of aging each.
Fantastic series! Such great work. Cask has been important for me and I always seek it out when available here in Finland. This series has made me even more aware of the magic of cask.
Lovely series that covered some really interesting stories thanks for the work you've put into it. As a fan of cask it does feel like it's getting harder to find, though saying this I was on holiday to a few places around the UK recently and stopped in Marlborough for a few days where I felt like a kid in a candy shop. Will definitely planning a cycle north of the river to pop into the Southampton Arms and the Old Fountain when I've got a free weekend too.
Nice series Brad and Johnny. I was lucky enough to be serving from a cask of Vintage Ale at LCBF. last August. What struck me was the brewers that headed for this and wanted to try this beer. I remember the guys from Beak especially. Being as ld as I am, i ws Sri king cask in the early 80s, there was a LOT of it around then. Sadly it has dropped off my radar. After watching this series, am gonna make a great effort to try and promote this style!
Ive gone down the rabbit hole called your channel but i still think this series is one of the best! Keep it up guys! Cant wait for the book to come back in stock so i can read it soon! Cheers from texas
Excellent series gents! I’ve worked in cask ale pubs for 10+ years, and it really is a magnificent, uniquely British thing.
I’m glad of the rise of craft (personally, and also ‘a rising tide raises all ships!’) but the wonderful variety and complexity of ale is a never-ending journey I’ll happily take.
You’ve done it proud 💪🏻
Terrific series guys. Learned a good deal about cask ale and tradition around it. It also encourages me to explore traditional British beer offerings as well. Sadly, between the boom in hard seltzers and hazy IPA's taking shelf space, I'm seeing less and less imported beer in my area of the U.S. But we do have some local breweries that crank out a Mild or ESB from time to time. Who knows, maybe well see more cask ale in the U.S. soon too. Cheers!
Your videos seem like something I would see on PBS here in the states
Really loved this series guys, your passion truly shines through!
As a swede, cask ale isn't really a staple or a classic around here, but here is one pub in Gothenburg that I always visit when I go there that serves cask beer, and is one of few in sweden to be certified to serve it as well! I was really surprised with just HOW tasty it was when I first tried proper cask, and the lower ABV (traditionally) of the styles also makes it so pleasant to just be able to sit for hours without getting absolutely hammered.
Again, you guys are doing the lords work with this channel and Thanet has definitively been added to my list of places to visit in Britain!
What is the name of this pub
Great series! Some of your best work and think the UNESCO idea is excellent. Best of luck 🍻
Brilliant series. Cask ales are not that common here in the States, but when a pub has 1 or 2 on hand we the beer geeks get pretty excited. Would love if it would become more available here.
Same with Ireland
Loved watching this series on cask ale, it's one style of beer I love and I just love the whole idea of using a handpull and I ended up buying one after watching your video of using one at home and I hope one day to cask some of my ales too.
Cheers 🍺🍻
Great series, have really enjoyed watching it, probably one of the best produced things I've ever seen on UA-cam, keep up the good work.
Dude, "The closure of our pubs..." whilst showing The Fountain in Shoreditch made my heart jump (!).
great series!
Wonderful passion in an excellent series guys. Keep up the good work both in cask & craft & hopefully the future of UK beer is a bright one. Cheers 👍👍👍
This series is better than the rubbish the BBC pump out - well filmed
I have Vintage Ale from 2011 to 2021 in my beer store. I buy three bottles from each year. If I remember (I know that sounds strange but I forgot last year) I drink one bottle of the new batch and then save the others for another time. Maybe I am a bit obsessive about having a nice collection all lined up in the boxes. I must admit I am not a massive Fuller's fan and always avoid London Pride as I just don't like the taste (I find it too metallic for some reason), but I did do the brewery tour a few years ago and in the tap room at the end I did tell the guide that I was drinking the best London Pride I have ever tasted. I haven't touched a drop of it since!!! Great series on cask beer though - must have been fun filming it.
What a fantastic series guys. Cask Ale needs content like this, viewing it through the lens of a younger demographic. Cask is absolutely a tradition, but it is in danger and a huge factor to that is it’s perception.
I couldn’t think of anyone more qualified than you two to make Cask cool again 😉 🍻🍻
A lot of it’s advocates don’t help the cause though.
Great to see your channel , very appreciated for the videos for keeping cask alive. Our business is related with them and we do want them live well and hope more and more young people back to support their local brewery.
Loved this series so much, thanks for putting it out there. The UNESCO idea is so good, and I will fully support that!
What was the pub you had the Vintage Ale on cask called?
Machine House Brewery in Seattle is the one place in the US I know of doing cask conditioned beers. Certainly worth a visit if you are in the area.
Absolutely adore Vintage ale, might have to try it on cask now :D
Fantastic series. If you had told me you would do a series on cask I would have thought it is a step down from the epicness of, say, the New England one, but it turned out amazing, and not only because the topic has much more depth than we give it credit, but also because of your efforts behind it: storytelling, editing...top notch stuff guys.
Great ending to a nice series. Been drinking cask beer all my life n its nice to see you lads helping to secure its future, slurp👍
This series has been great guys. Thanks for the awesome content.
Absolutely wonderful series with a great message. Cheers to that and congrats 🍻
Great series and hope the goal of more cask ales become more popular and in the front of beer geeks minds. Sadly the new U.K. taxation might further put people off especially the stronger ales
The Thor End Gentleman's club loved the series boys! Skàl!😁🍺🍻🤟
Great finale. I wish Cask was more prevalent here in Canada. But I guess that's something the UK should really boast for tourism, as you noted with the UNESCO filing.
Without London Pride I wouldn't be as much into beer as I am now.
Great series lads! Made be want to jump on an airplane and fly to London for a pint down at the Harp.
This is absolutely brilliant. Well done.
I love it. My local bottle shop in Northern California gets Fuller's Vintage Ale in bottles every other year so I get it whenever I can.
Another terrific job chaps, very enjoyable.
I realise this is slightly off topic but it is Fullers related.
Many years ago I use to go sea fishing off Brighton. I enjoyed many a pint of Gales bitter. I later found out they had been bought out by Fullers and the brewery closed with the recipe being used to make HSB.
I look for HSB whenever I visit a Fullers pub and can never find it.
Please ask them what they've done with one of my old favourites and why it's never on anywhere. (when I say anywhere, it's mainly central London Fullers pubs)
p.s. I'm enjoying a Weird Beard "Pucker the pain away", not normally into sours but couldn't resist a beer with a picture of my daughter on the can!
Haha not sure we have the sway but we do see HSB around in London! I also know that some Gales Prize Old Ale is still in tank at Dark Star....
Great, great series!!! Thank you so much.
Brilliant series chaps. Well done!
Well done boys! Enjoyed the series, looking forward to the next one! I now will be keeping an eye on the cask ales available near me!
Thank you so much! That was a fantastic journey ! So well-made! Keep on! Cheers from KAZAKHSTAN!
Bravo - I could not agree more with everything you have said across this series. You have my full support.
Well, I'll be getting this at Christmas, so job done, lads. Great series. Cheers!
Great series guys!
Great series. Thanks fellas
This series of vids have been superb.
Well done boys!
Great series, really enjoyed watching.
Beautiful !
Cracking series. Top work.
Just binged the entire series and loved it! I learnt so much from this and I’m very excited about my next opportunity to drink cask!
I sense a much bigger story about cask beer, though fantastic work from the CBC team for this short series. I'd happily watch a much longer series on the telly, it's that good. Big TV companies take note.
Great series, you guys do really good work.
Great series! Cheers and beers!
will opening my 2021 this weekend
Awesome series!
Excellent idea, good luck!
Cask is definitely King when kept and served well. UNESCO? Go for it, seems like a really good place to start to protect cask. Fuller's, from a good cask, that's Pride
Just picked up 4 bottles of this, a couple for me and a couple for gifts.
Unusual, I dont like the initial barley wine hit, the flavour develops a few seconds later and its pretty good, I do get the orange hit that was mentioned.
Im finding I like it more and more with each sip, also impressed that the head doesn’t seem to disappear, its a well put together beer.
Id like to try this on cask, but also go back to one of my bottles a few years down the line, I wonder what the sweet spot in terms of age will be
Three years cellared maybe. I don’t know haven’t had it but would like to try it. You don’t need a cellar to age it just a cool, dry dark place.
Brilliant series lads really enjoyed it, much love from NZ
keep the good work. Amazing series
What was the “pub down the road” from the brewery? I’m going to be in London next weekend and would love to check it out. Loved, loved, loved this series. 🍻
Been an excellent series
Excellent documentary, I really wish there was more of a cask ale tradition here in Australia but that seems to have died in the 70's and 80's when air conditioning got better and cheaper and ice cold keg lager became king.
Cask beer died out in 1973 till the late 1990’s in Ireland. Even then before Keg’s bottled ales were more common.
great series
Loved this series. Well done!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Could you do a series in Ireland. Maybe another one about saving mid ales (Brown ales, dark milds and Irish red ales).
You are so lucky to have cask ale. hope you can keep it going as well as your traditional pubs. i can rarely find cask ale in the
US. and of course we have bars rather than pubs.
Finally hit me what this series intro music reminds me of - Jessica! ...Beer Gear 🍻
Wowwwww what a climaxxxx 🍻🥳❤️ epic journey you took us on and I am forever thankful for this. It opened up my vision about beer and the heritage. Next time in England I’m going to double down on cask 🍻 cheers from Amsterdam
A great end to the series, really enjoyed it. I'm continually amazed that people have the vocabulary to describe beer - apricots, Christmas pudding, it's only when people mention then I recognise them. I was enjoying some cask ale from Harvieston brewery last weekend, its a small support haha
Lidl Custard creams, blackberries and slightly buttery caramel with a hint of hazelnuts and wethers original in the case of Sullivan’s Brewing Company’s red ale.
This is been a truly great series. Thank you.
I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure that the future of cask lies in cask hard seltzer.
That was a terrible attempt at a joke. My apologies.
A "truly" dystopian future.
@@TheCraftBeerChannel Isn’t preserving the culture of real ale something that your Prince Chuck has expressed an interest in? Surely he knows someone at UNESCO.
My new goal is to get to the UK for a cask ale tour!
There is no better beer than a Fuller's. Yes it's popular in England, and that's for a reason. consistent, mild, and drinkable. ESB is the king of beer for my pallette.
UNESCO is such a great and exciting idea!!! Hope this happens!! I've signed up!
Vintage ale is usually available on cask in October at selected pubs in London but I haven't been able to find it this year, anyone come across it yet? I know it is available in bottle and I usually stock up in Waitrose.