Fuller's Chiswick Bitter

Fuller's Chiswick Bitter

Cask, keg & bottle; Regular.

NOTE: Note: This is the unpasteurised version, originally available only on cask. All versions of this beer are now unpasteurised and have been since late 2014. Ratings will be moved when time allows.


Ingredients: Pale malt; Northdown and Challenger hops. Dry hopped with Goldings.

GBBF Champion Beer 1989.

Slight change of recipe in 1999.
Chiswick Bitter is Fuller’s popular session strength ale, which derives its name from the area of London where Fuller’s is based. This lower strength beer is held in high regard across the South East of England and, like its stablemates London Pride and ESB, has won the prestigious CAMRA Great British Beer Festival, Beer of the Year award, in 1989. In fact, Fuller’s is the only brewery in England whose top three brands have won this award: a fitting testament to the skill and dedication of the Fuller’s brewers!
3.1
234 reviews
Chiswick, England

Community reviews

3.2 Pours a golden orange slightly unclear beer with a nice white full head. Smells malts, honey, hops. Tastes honey, flat, hops. low carbo, thin body and a dry texture.
3.4 Heldere koperen kleur met een volle fijne kraag. Ruikt fruitig, honing. Smaakt iets bitter, honing. Iets dun.
2.9 Pint at a Fuller’s pub in London. pours clear amber with firm cream head. aroma is wet cardboard, weak hops and malts. taste is quite hoppy but also rather watery. nothing exciting.
3.3 Clear Amber orange with a lasting white head. Aroma is faint crystal malts. Flavor is slight butterscotch with a gentle orange mermelade flowery hops. Light to medium palate
2.9 Cask at the parcel yard, London. Pours clear golden amber, merest head. Light malt and faint sour aromas. Light malty taste. Thin finish. Ok.
3.9 Cask conditioned at the brew house. Soft and pleasant aroma with yeast and balsamic notes. Soft grainy and hoppy flavor with hints of soft mint caramel. Very good session bitter.
3.0 Nice bitter, would prefered a bit more hoppy though. Purchased at swedish livsmedelsaffär. Bottle 50 cl
2.8 Cask at the Hanging Bat. Pours clear amber, nose is grainy, cereal, taste is very sweet, cereal, toffee.
3.3 Rated from memory a couple of days later: had the trio of parti-gyle beers at a Fuller?s pub. Unsurprisingly, a lovely beer. Very simple and balanced, but for a 70+ year old beer it has quite a strong hop presence, best described as floral. It?s pale and weak, but the Fuller?s yeast leaves enough residual sugar for a rounded, malty body. I will seek this out again.
3.0 Cask@ Pullman bar. Amber colored, thin white head. Caramel, leather, citrusy aroma. Flavor has citrus, floral notes, toffee. Dry, quite bitter finish. Mild harshness. Decent.
3.3 Sampled from the cask at The Ship in Borough, a Fuller’s pub.The colour is a darkish gold, with a quickly fading white head. Quite aromatic with scents of biscuity malts and fruity hops. Light-bodied, but the strong malt and hop flavours give it plenty of character. The malt taste is quite sweet, but the finish is pleasingly bitter. A classic lower-strength beer, this develops great flavours when served from the cask, and is ideal for everyday drinking.
2.8 Fruity aroma. Very hoppy and bitter taste. Golden honey appearance. Sweet and sour.
3.3 Poured light amber with an off white head. Aroma of sweet, honeyed malt. Light body, flavour is medium sweet, lightly bitter.
3.0 Cask. A solid lightish bodied English session bitter with biscuity malts and and floral hops on the nose and tongue. Clear amber appearance with a small stable head.
3.3 Cask at GBBF set up on 10 August 2014. Pours dark gold. Aroma of biscuit and malt. Bitter sweet finish. I’ve had better pints of this.
2.4 White almost absent head. Amber colour. Aroma is malty with light fruity (dried fruits) and caramel and hoppy notes. Flavor is moderately malty with apricot and light caramel tones, ending in a moderately hoppy and slightly caramelly finish. Light bodied.
2.1 Sinaasappelsap is voornaamste aroma element. De smaak is licht IPA, maar stuk wateriger, maar niet verkeerd. Schuim is lekker klef en blijft plakken. Snel doordrinken anders wordt het bier erg laf.
3.4 Having at Strangelove?s in Philly from a beer engine. Billed as a cask pour and feels properly so, despite calls that it is impossible to find in the USA. Possible its all a conspiracy. But if not - poured a clear dark gold with a massive off-white head. Medium toasted wheat. Honey Challah. Dark oranges. Smooth mix. Low carbonation (with the beer engine pour) but still feels pretty full for a bitter. Easy drinking. Only a very slight spicy edge. Nicely balanced.
3.5 On cask at Blackbird close to Earl’s Court. Dark golden. Uneven, but dense and persisten white head. Biscuits, cereals and a hint of yeast in aroma. Well balanced taste with moderate hops and sweet malt.Bittersweet aftertaste.
3.1 Bona cervesa molt equilibrada i gustosa. Buena cerveza muy equilibrada y sabrosa.
2.9 From the cask at Fuller’s Ale & Pie House at Earl’s Court, London. Golden in color with a thin white head. Very subtle aromas of malt and hops. Flavors are also very light--grassy notes with bready tones. Subtle hop bite. Not a very exceptional ale, but perhaps a typical representation of an English bitter. Not terrible, but not outanding.
2.4 Mild, bready aroma. Honey, resin, mineral, and metal taste. Not much bitterness and thus disappointing.
2.4 Bottle from Hemköp. Nice clear dark amber. Malty caramell with a hint of citrus. Mild bitterness. A bit soapy metallic aftertaste. Watery. Very nice as a folk ale.
2.8 Aroma: bread malts, flowers. Appearance: pale hazy gold, frothy head. Taste: light bitter. Palate: watery, light bitters, hay, floral hoppiness. Overall: below-average bitter, too bland, not enough flavours. Pint at The Dove, Hammersmith.
1.8 Cask. Decent light amber brown pour. Quite light, mild citrus. General thinness. Touch of caramel sweetness. No hops to report... doesn’t exactly go down "smooth", as there’s a slight astringency to it. Pure meh.
1.9 Drack denna på en QPR-pub i London. Den fungerade som en bra förematchöl men ingen öl att sitta och njuta av.
2.7 Cask @ Bishops Arms, Gustav Adolfs Torg, Malmö. Clear golden with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and light hoppy - grass. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. 080214
2.7 Cask at In De Wildeman. Pours clear amber with a ring bubbly off white head. Aroma of light malt and caramel. More of the hops come out in the palate with a light sweet and light to moderate bitter flavour. Light bodied with flat carbonation.
2.7 Cask @Fuller´s Brewery, Chiswick, London. Hoppy, herbal aromas. Pours quite clear, golden, no head. Light body, some malty character, mild bitter. Dull one.
3.1 Pours amber with a small white head. Aroma is rye bread, orange peel and hay. Taste is rye bread, orange zest, honey and hay. Quite bland though well balanced.