Felinfoel Stout

Brewed by Felinfoel
Style: Stout
Llanelli, Dyfed, Wales

Bottle 500ml from Sainsburys, Christchurch. Pours black with a large tan head. Aromas of chocolate malts and dark roasts. These flavours follow through in to the taste. Wow, what a wonderfully creamy mouthfeel. This is a really good stout – the best I’ve had so far this year.

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.

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.

Good, pale beige head, irregular over fully opaque black beer. Rich roasted & vanilla aroma; slightly sweet, caramelized syrup. Dry stout taste initially, burnt & slight typical stout (roasted barley) sweetness. There’s a strange vinous flavour, as from a sweet, but ripened sherry, making it way more complex than an ordinary stout. Warming up, a faint smoked ham flavour, even! Medium bodied, very slick and nearly viscous, much more than a 4.5% ABV beer would warrant. Surprising - in the meliorative sense - stout.

Bottle.A bit lively upon pouring. Quite dry with a medium body. Nothing outstanding but still worth checking out.

Bottle pint: Opaque black Welsh Stout with an great roasted malts taste, and hints of choclate and toffee.

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.

Cask @ Charlies, Copenhagen. Black colour with a tan head. Light roasted malty aroma with a dark fruit sweetness. Sweet malty and light roasted flavor. Dry finish.