Ølfabrikken Ungstrup's Reserve
Ølfabrikken

 

 

Thanks to baggio for this rarity. Served in a tulip at largadeer's office debauchery...err, I mean party.

A - Finger of white foam settles to a thick collar. Murky orange-brown body.

S - Smoke, hickory, yeasty bread, mild oxidized character.

T - Very fruity English-style barleywine, with caramel apples, treacle, and some honey-glazed hammy smoked malts.

M - Medium body, chewy, low carbonation, with that mouth-coating smokey finish. Some mild alcohol warmth in the finish.

D - This is decent considering it's a bizarre combination of smoked beer and barleywine - I think I've only encountered one of these before and it was pretty bad. Not a bad beer so much as a poor idea.

Pours a hazy dark golden orange color that is almost completely opaque with a two finger off white head that slowly settles into a lasting ring.  Streaks of lace left behind.

Smokey, meaty aroma with lots of wood/oak, pale malt and light fruit.  A strange combination of scents with hints of bacon, apple and citrus.

Full bodied with a good balance of sweet and smokey flavors  Pretty earthy with some charred oak that compliments the nice smoked meat flavor.  Still light and easy to drink with sweet light fruits, especially apple and pear.  Dry finish.  Very unique.  

750 ml corked and caged bottle at Woodshop Quad, thanks to fordest and toncatcher for supplying the brew, reviewed from notes on my phone, this was brewed to celebrate the ten thousandth review of a RB user named Ungstrup in Denmark, its brief bottle description says that it is a smoked barleywine and one of the first of its style, color is a nice amber with golden orange highlights, pretty murky, 3/4 inch foamy off white head, some retention, decent lacing, aroma had a huge smokey scent and was full of sweet characteristics, various dark fruits, light spices, and luring malts, Flavour was slightly salty with the pastrami or bacon feel, some herbs and spice mix in with the malt in the middle, finish is the only thing that makes this seem like a barleywine with a big caramel malt note and burn of booze, some light bitterness in the aftertaste as well, mouthfeel is dry, boozy, sweet, and most of all smokey, medium bodied, could use some more carbonation, taste lingers, could have drank a good amount of this stuff, alcohol is hidden well, not too heavy and the smoked accents are not over the top, would like to try again, cool to try a commemorative beer from another country like this anyday, recommended