Felstar Festive Ale

Brewed by Felstar
Style: Barley Wine
Dunmow, England

Serve in Snifter

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bottle shared by papsoe at ungstrup\s dark amber, clear , smooth light brown head. very brown for a barley wine. mild aroma, slightly malty, slightly sweet. flavor is quite fruity, dark fruits, dried fruits. tastes a lot more like a quad than a barley wine.

Bottle at Ungstrup. Dark brown coloured with a small beige head. Fruity aroma of caramel, dried fruits and liquorice. Sweet and light roasted flavour of fruits, liquorice and dark chocolate with notes of hops. Light roasted finish.

Bottle 27,5 cl. Courtesy of madmitch76. Pours a dark brown with a vague reddish hue and a beige head. Aroma of overripe fruit, pruney with some alcohol showing. Solid body, Sherry, oxidized overripe fruit, again prunes and raisins, a little marzipan perhaps and a roasty touch. Warming alcohol. Lovely British style Barley Wine. 090212

27.5 cL bottle. Pours hazy dark brown to black with a thick, creamy and tan head. Aroma is dry phenolic and dark liqourice. Thick malty, liqourice and dark malt. Thick malty and overripe fruity.

275ml bottle conditioned bottle at home. Pours black / very dark ruby red with a thin but sustained cafe au lait head. The aroma is bitter and smokey with cakey pudding fruits with pine overtones. Palate is rich and velvetty but not cloying at first becomming oilier as it warms and develops in the glass. Initial taste of figs, raisins and fruit and nut milk chocolate with a sharp hit of cherries when cool. This mellows into faint woodsmoke. Like sitting by the fire of a country in on a winters day watching the snow fall outside. As it warms the flavours become bitter and darker and it developsa port-like character with thehigh alcohol level becomming more apparent. I think that I slightly over-chilled this initially but I’m glad I did as the way the flavours developed over an hour or so was wonderful to experience.

Bottled. A black beer witth a brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, tar, soy sauce, and tobaccon. The flavor is sweet wtih notes of malt, soy sauce, alcohol, and tobacco, leading to a dry roasted finish, that burns in the throat.

275ml bottle (Bishops Stortford BF2011)
7 Yeasty aroma, quite burnt.
4+ Very dark, lovely dark head too.
7- A bit alcoholic in the mouth. Rich roasty malt, a bit yeasty and marmitey.
3 Nice and full in the mouth, but a very alcoholic finish. 13 At its best, this is lovely, but alas the alcohol is too big a component.

Bottled (shared by tdtm82 at Stortford Beer fest, thanks Thomas!). Pitch black colour (or close to), mediumsized beige head. Aroma is liquorice, some roasted, toasted and malty notes. Flavour is roasted malts, liquorice, tobacco and some slight hoppy notes as well. Mild ashes in the finish. Atleast this bottle tasted more like an imperial stout than a barley wine...

275ml bottle from Pigs Ear Beer Festival, day 3 on 2 December 2010. Best before 28 February 2012. Very dark red/brown colour. Some butterscotch in the aroma. Otherwise OK, with some chewy toffee and plummy fruit notes.

Bottle 275ml.

Clear dark brown color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, burnt caramel, toffee. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long duration, licorice candy (lakrids konfekt). Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20101202]