Two decades in pursuit of perfect pints of ESB

Two decades in pursuit of perfect pints of ESB

At a Fuller’s pub in West London on Friday night we drank perfect ESB – one of life’s greatest pleasures. Despite takeovers (Fuller’s is part of Asahi these days) there’s a definite romance about its beers. When we first started to take a serious interest in beer, back in the mid noughties, ESB had a reputation as a big, important beer. It was strong and expensive. And it was served, most of the time, in a chunky chalice that said: “This is a pi…