Festeroo Winter Ale
Hop Valley Brewing Company in Eugene, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer - Old Ale Winter Out of Production|
Score
6.74
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Aroma of malt, caramel, nuts, fruity notes, hints of spices, hops. Flavour is light sweet with a long bitter finish. Malty and hoppy winter ale, much more to my liking than those Belgian spicy sugar-bombs.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Amber color. Caramel in the spicy aroma. Malty sweet, spicy flavor with caramel, cardemom and speculaas. Sticky mouthfeel. Questionable balance.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Treated as a winter warmer, this was poured into a mug.
The appearance was a dark brown color with a good finger and a half worth’s of white foamy head. Dissipates mildly with a messy lace roaming all around.
The aroma bleeds ginger, allspice, and caramel malts. Grassy hops seek to balance decently.
The flavor leads with the same aromas. Sticky caramel malt backbone seems to really impound the aftertaste to run into the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation feels fine.
Overall, good as a winter warmer, but seems to be missing a bit more booziness than expected for an American Strong ale.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
12 oz bottle from De Bierkoning @ home. Deep ruby red color with a slight haze. Rocky light beige head with pretty good retention and lacing. Aroma’s: resinous hops, caramel malts, light red fruit. Fruit is much more upfront retronasal, with the resin still quite strong and caramel more subdued. Flavor is moderate bitter, light fruity sourness, light caramel sweetness. Medium bodied. Long finish with herbal and earthy bitterness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Boise Co-op. Pours out a ruby tinged gold, with sparse head, yet leaves copious amounts of spotty lacing. Malt drives the aroma and taste, backup support comes from hops, spice and a bit of alcohol warmth. It all comes together quite nicely for a winter warmer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sampled from the tap at the brewpub. Pours a clear deep amber with a tan head that dissipates completely. Aroma has a nice sweet grain and spice combination with a bit of caramel underlying. Flavor has a combination of hrass, sweet grains and light spice with a hint of toffee supporting.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle Deep amber witha lively coarse head Lots of woody sharp bitter aroma and flavors notes. Astringent and the ABV is noticable. Bitterness was somewhat rye-like.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 12fl.oz. [ As Hop Valley Festeroo ].Clear medium to dark orange amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, mesk - mash, moderate hoppy, hop oil, wood - forest. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, woody hops, malty, caramel malt, dusty, old malt, nutty notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20150923]
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Das Bier hat eine klare dunkel orangbraune Farbe und eine große beige Schaumkrone. Der Geruch ist kräftig malzig, sehr hopfig, sehr harzig, reife Früchte. Der Geschmack ist sehr malzig, harzig, reife Früchte, im Abgang trocken, floral bitter, interessant!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Lukt: Citrus og karamell.
Utseende: Rødbrun farge.
Skum/kullsyre: Dekkende skum, heng langs kant.
Smak: Citrsu med en karamell avslutning.
Hvor: Kjøpt/Nydt@Ales & Lagers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Medium: Flaske@330ml, ABV@7,3%, Når@14.06.2015