As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline for Dessert or Pastry Beer describes beers that "build on a strong dark beer base and incorporate culinary ingredients," deep amber to black, at 5.5 to 10.25 percent ABV or more and 20 to 65 IBU. The brewery labels the beer a barrel aged barleywine rather than a stout, and the published finishing ingredients support the category's culinary ingredient expectation.
Awards History
Year
Competition
Category
Medal
2026
Great American Beer Festival
Dessert or Pastry Beer
Silver
Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.
Name conflict: the GABF list says "Ferds Addition", the brewery's medal post says "Ferd's Edition", and the 2026 World Beer Cup list says "Barrel-Aged Kelly's Private Stash (Ferd's Addition)". The GABF name is kept as the beer name; the others are aliases.
The same beer took Silver in Wood and Barrel Aged Dessert or Pastry Beer (52 entries) at the 2026 World Beer Cup, per the official winners list.
The beer is absent from the brewery's beer listing and category page, and a site search returned only event pages.
Web searches found no Untappd listing, ABV, IBU or barrel source.
Researched 2026-10-13.
Second pass 2026-10-13: Found the matching 2026 Ferd's Edition listing with ABV, IBU, finishing ingredients and barrel details. The separately described regular Private Stash release was excluded.
Field pass 2026-10-13: A targeted brewery domain search for Ferd and Kelly found no beer page or hop names. The previously verified 2026 formulation is retained.
Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: PorchDrinking's 2022 pouring guide lists the base Kelly's Private Stash as a bourbon barrel aged English barleywine; nothing describes the Ferds Addition variant, so no figure is carried over.
Brewery site scrape 2026-10-14: found nothing new; 6 pages tried (robots.txt obeyed, one request every few seconds per host).
Second deep dive pass 2026-10-14 (brewery site, press search): found nothing new; 4 pages tried. Nothing new. The brewery home page repeats the medal post naming the beer 'Kelly's Private Stash (Ferd's Edition)'; no tasting notes, process or hops found. The 2026 U.S. Open coverage of other Kelly's Private Stash versions was not carried over.