29 (XXIX) Anniversary Ale
Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale - American Series|
Score
7.48
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Each late summer, we team up with local winemakers to craft a one-of-a-kind Anniversary Ale through a friendly blending competition.
This year’s blend brings together seven barrel-aged beers—Parabola, Velvet Merkin, Frau Gruber Stout Blend, Helldorado, DDBA, Stickee Monkee, and Bravo—pouring deep black walnut with wine-like legs.
Aromas of chocolate-covered cherry, crème brûlée, and oak lead into layers of cocoa, vanilla, caramel candy, and sweet cherry, finishing with marshmallow, graham cracker, tobacco, and molasses, all wrapped in a luxuriously smooth mouthfeel.
Drink now, or age in a dark, cool place and enjoy for years to come.
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Oak and caramel. Tangerine peel. Dark brown/maroon pour without much head. In the mouth some booze, hazelnut. Tap at Dominion.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pours clear hazel, medium beige head, good lacing. Aroma is dark sugars, bourbon, oak, vanilla. Flavor ie medium sweet, light plus bitter. Medium body. Solid.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
12 oz boxed bottle. Aroma is chocolaty, crème brûlée, vanilla, toffee, bourbon, tobacco, overripe dark fruit, wet stone. Pours very dark brown to black with an immediately collapsing beige head. Taste is bittersweet with chocolaty, bourbon barrel kissed toffee tinged deliciousness.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8
12 oz. bottle, pours black with a small tan head—looks like a stout, which makes sense given that ⅔ of the blend is stout. Nose is elegant and complex, with tons of bourbon barrel depth, plenty of oakiness, some vanillin, a little chocolate, and plenty of roast. Flavour is delicately balanced, revealing plenty of bourbon barrel, vanillin, oak, low-to-moderate roast, some dark chocolate, a touch of dark dried fruits, and toffee. Close to stout-like but a little softer, showcasing the barrels really well. Palate is very oily/silky, with well-suited low carbonation. Another wonderful anniversary blend.