Fuller's - London Pride

Amalgam

I am currently buying London Pride in Tesco's, the one on Baggot Street, closer to Stephen's Green, Dublin.



Here is what Tesco have to say about it on the price tag.



The description is spot on, malty.. and if swigged, a tad peppery, but softer than say Singha or Kirin.

I recommend this, try and track it down. You will find yourself a regular drinker of it, or at least go back for a second run of bottles..

A very satisfying drink, slightly chilled.

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I have a question, does this exist in Ireland on tap?

podgerdodger

Have'nt seen it on draught in Ireland,its sold as a cask ale in English pubs,Fullers have a good selection of ales over here,the likes of E.S.B,Discovery,Organic Honey Dew and London Porter are available in Superquinn,O'Briens and a lot of the Independents.

guildofevil

London Pride is a great beer. I come back to it again and again.

Séan

Davidth88

Being from West London I used to live almost next to a Fuller's pub. I really love Pride , it's one of the few things I miss about London.
I used to bring cases back from home when I was driving the car back , then Molloy's started selling it , and now Tesco's and Superquinns.

It's a perfect session beer.

Should be drunk at ' cellar ' temp , so I drink it 2 bottles at a time , one chilled and one room temp.

My brother used to run a Fullers pub , spend a happy afternoon drinking beer directly from his cask ( ie not pulled thru pipes but he went to cellar and got it directly from cask ) and that was the best beer I have EVER drunk !.

Enjoy it , AND BUY it , that way Tesco's won't drop it from their list !

r3nu4l

When I worked in London I used to have a pint of this at Friday lunch-times. A quick 2-min walk to the Hung, Drawn and Quartered at Tower Hill and a nice pint of Pride was ready in no time.

Now that I work in Cambridge I find myself ordering a 'pint of best' if I go for a lunchtime drink...you never know what strange ale they'll bring you when you ask for a pint of best

I saw London Pride on the shelves the last time I was home, it's good to see some real choice opening up in the Irish market. When I do eventually move back home I won't be reliant on the usual suspects (Bud, Heineken, Carlsberg...).

gucci

its on my shopping list for this evening :rolleyes:

r3nu4l

gucci wrote:

its on my shopping list for this evening :rolleyes:

I take it you are being a funneh and don't really mean it's on your shopping list for tonight.

Why so? What's your preferred tipple...assuming you didn't come here just to [removed by r3nu4l] this thread? :eek:

Amalgam

Davidth88, nice to read your comments, I think the 'Cellar' remark is spot on, I don't chill, just cool it a little, chilling it tends to kill off a lot of its character.

I also drink it in pairs, I often just uncap the bottles and let them rest for a few hours.

This Ale has led me to the dark side, I used to drink Fosters etc and various other 'see-through' beers, but the taste difference once you've started on Fuller's, there's no going back.

I am basically stuck on various Stouts and London Pride. I can't stomach anything else at the moment.

Jimoslimos

Good to know its available in Ireland now:) It was one of the first beers I tried when I moved over to England and even though I'm busy working my way through a list of ales to try, I still go back and have a few bottles now and again.

As for being available on tap in Ireland, I doubt it. I've only ever seen it sold in pubs over here as a cask ale.

Davidth88

Ill have to ask my brother , but I guess Pride is really quite difficult to keep.

It's served in a lot of the Witherspoons pubs , and almost without exception it's terrible . There isn't enough throughput I guess.

What I do remember is my brother used to leave it about 1 week before he would tap it to settle. There is a about 1-2 inches of sludge at the bottom of the casks ( is Guinness like that ?? ). It used to annoy him because he was charged by Fullers as though this was beer , but it was unusable.

I was in London last weekend , got a couple of nice pints.

Try ESB in the winter , if you like that sort of thing ( bit heavy for me ).

Strangely enough , I was in a small restaurant in Rome about a year ago, got a beer , thought ... hmmmm this tastes nice .... turned out to be Pride on tap !

oblivious

Davidth88 wrote:

Ill have to ask my brother , but I guess Pride is really quite difficult to keep.

It's served in a lot of the Witherspoons pubs , and almost without exception it's terrible . There isn't enough throughput I guess.

What I do remember is my brother used to leave it about 1 week before he would tap it to settle. There is a about 1-2 inches of sludge at the bottom of the casks ( is Guinness like that ?? ). It used to annoy him because he was charged by Fullers as though this was beer , but it was unusable.

I was in London last weekend , got a couple of nice pints.

Try ESB in the winter , if you like that sort of thing ( bit heavy for me ).

Strangely enough , I was in a small restaurant in Rome about a year ago, got a beer , thought ... hmmmm this tastes nice .... turned out to be Pride on tap !

The only place I have heard of cask conditioned ale been served is the porterhouse, their TSB, biddy early's their Real Biddy and Carlow Brewing’s Druid's Brew Stout. I suspect that most of the use cask breeder which is frown upon by hardcore CAMRA fans.

I just could not imagine Irish publicans having to serve real ale, there is a whole profession of knowing when the cask is properly carbonated and conditioned, which is all done the pubs cellar and then taping it and server the cask with in five days as it will go off.

That sludge is yeast and filings, since Guinness centrifuges out the yeast and is not conditioned its not the same.

gucci

r3nu4l wrote:

I take it you are being a funneh and don't really mean it's on your shopping list for tonight.

Why so? What's your preferred tipple...assuming you didn't come here just to troll this thread? :eek:

well i regularly read this forum, might not contribute too often. i didnt have a shopping list, you caught me out there but i did add four bottles to my basket last night when getting a few things!! Havnt had a chance to sample them just yet.

My prefered tipple is guinness in most bars as i dont have much selection in my locals (live in the bog!) but increasingly fond of hoegaarden which is served in a bar i frequent and erdinger or budvar where its served. and i have been to belguim twice and wowed my taste buds on a huge range of beers. can you remove the troll name now
i also work designing beer taps so all my drinking is now research:cool:

r3nu4l

gucci wrote:

...can you remove the troll name now

Done I have to admit that in the past couple of years the Irish micro-brewery scene has really taken off. This in conjunction with the importation of quality beers into off-licenses and supermarkets will hopefully fuel demand in regualr pubs for a better choice in beers.

It's about time that Irish drinkers were given more choice. Maybe London Pride will appear on tap in your local one day

oblivious

I would love to but sadly I think it would be bridge to far for most publicans, it could have a niche market if witherspoon's had come into Ireland; remember the response to falling trade in Irish pub was to increase the price! I have seen many fine establishments, including a five star hotel keeping there taped beer out side exposed to elements and massive temperature fluctuations.

Blisterman

I really like it from a cask, but I must say, it doesn't do anything for me in a bottle.
That's one of the best things about living in London. Huge selection of great cask ales.

OPENROAD

Have to say I absolutely adore Fullers London Pride, and great that it is on sale in Tesco, lucky enough to be in London quite a bit and it is even better in pubs, my fave beer/bitter.

OPENROAD

Blisterman wrote:

I really like it from a cask, but I must say, it doesn't do anything for me in a bottle.
That's one of the best things about living in London. Huge selection of great cask ales.

agree 100% much better from the cask.

Nature Boy

Very nice. Always drink it on tap when I'm in England

rockbeer

Used to love a pint of pride, or half and half (with ESB) sometimes down at the Anchor in Clapton when I lived in London. Always try and make it my business to go for one or two when I'm back, although the Anchor is sadly no more. Failing that, 6X does the trick nicely.

If somebody opened a pub serving up cask ale hereabouts I would do whatever it took to move in next door