Felinfoel Stout

Brewed by Felinfoel
Style: Stout
Llanelli, Dyfed, Wales

500ml bottle. Black body with neat light tan head. Some chocolate notes in the aroma as well as a touch of fennel and some roasted grains. Grains again in the taste with not a lot of other flavours and a bit of a thin body. Still drank a lot easier than last nights stout.

bottle, pours a perfect pint, dark brown nearing black body, thin to medium tan head. Sweet cream stout aroma, almost like lactose. Roasted malt, sweet molasses, and a burnt sugar finish. Moderate carbonation, I bet this is lovely on tap with nitro, here it’s a little too much carbonation(crisp mouthfeel.) A very basic yet delicious and refreshing stout. Low in alcohol but still has plenty of flavor. I like it.

Bottle, feels filtered/pasteurised. Virtually pitch brew with a dimpled and extremely stubborn beige collar. Sweetish odd snout with seaweed, Black Jack stickiness, background roast, fennel seed, a varnishy walnut note belonging to a much paler nut brown ale-type beer. Something slatey and northern (S.Smiths?) that appeals, but the spice doesn’t. Slick but not full in the mouth developing a liquorice and charred cardboard character; bitterness like chiccory or cheap coffee, watery burnt finish. Pretty blatant liquorice/fennel to the point I suspect it’s actually been spiced. Far from classic stout but a pleasant enough drinking beer. If you like a penny bag of Black Jacks tipped in your pint.

Bottle, 4.1%. Sour aroma, smells extremely grainy. Hint of mild plastic, perhaps just paper. Almost black colour, red shine. Small stable light brown head. The flavour is quite roasted, there is some paper and grain. Roasted grain in the finish.

An almost black colored beer, with a thick foamy beige head. It leaves a nice lace on the glass. The aroma of chocolate with cherries. Also some smoked malts. the taste is dry bitter, smokie malts, dark fruits and coffee. A little watery. The aftertaste is bitter for a long time.

[Nitrokeg at Ferryboat Inn, Fishguard] Black with a small white head. Smooth texture, slight burnt malt and earth taste but really very bland and water for a stout and with a rather metallic aftertaste. Disappointing.

500ml bottle (Sainsbury’s)
Pain au chocolat aroma, coffee cake, toasted brown bread. Dense burnt core to the taste, but bathed in a refreshing body such that it’s not oppressive in any way. Crumpets. Pleasant burnt finish, and also pretty hoppy. Well balanced, and a good example of a low ABV stout.

bottle from sainsburys. pitch black in colour, lacy tan head. very farmyardy roast notes with a bit of dark chocolate. still yardy in taste, quite thin mouthfeel and odd bitter aftertaste. not mine.