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Great link, thanks. This is interesting to note
Equally unusually, Pat McGinty has made this 7.5 per cent abv beer using straight-up Burton well-water, rammed as it is with sulphates, which, conventionally, is seen as terrific for pale beers but not so great for dark ones, where a more London-like brewing liquor, with lots of calcium carbonate in, is regarded as optimal.
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Yeah, I thought so too; it was that piece that made me determined to pick up a bottle or two. I've also heard that strong bottle-conditioned beers sometimes go through phases of condition, so they can go from tasty to less tasty and back to tasty again over a course of months. I've got a bottle swap planned with a bunch of mates in March, where we should have a decade's worth of Fuller's Vintage Ale releases to taste and compare - I really hope we hit them all in a good phase...
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That's a pity - this article suggests it was all brewed back in September, and the head brewer suggests it might not be at its best for another couple of months: http://zythophile.co.uk/2019/09/21/blissful-unions/