Velvet Merlin
Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Oatmeal Regular|
Score
7.42
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A decadent oatmeal stout. Velvet Merlin offers robust cocoa and espresso aromas with subtle American hop nuances. Rich dark chocolate and roasted coffee flavor with a creamy mouth feel and wonderfully dry finish create the perfect balance in this full-bodied stout. Ideal for sipping in the winter months or at the end of a meal.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Dark brown pour. Aroma us coffee beans and malts roasted. Similar taste, oatmeal cookies and bitter chocolate.
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 01:16
8/10
RB score 3.72
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2025
at 01:41
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Early rating from Beer Buddy app
Tried
on 19 Nov 2021
at 02:08
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Memory rating WHAT UP! Pours black with a small brown head. Notes of roasted coffee beans, green coffee, dark malts, chocolate, dark fruits.
Tried
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:55
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle from Hasegawa. Dark brown with golden bubbly head. Aroma is very oaty, creamy too. Taste is nice too, creamy, touch of fruitiness maybe, porter like perhaps, roasty but in a subdued way, vanilla. Very smooth and easy to drink. Lots of taste for relatively low alcohol.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:53
7/10
0,3 litre Bottle from Total Wine and Spirits, Town Square, Las Vegas, Nv. Almost Black with light brown head. Roasted malts, oatmeal, vanilla, Chocolate, bourbon barrel. Mild. Nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2018
at 00:58
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
At Bumb3r in Antwerp. Classic Firestone Walker beer, a winter oatmeal stout, tasted at three years of age. Pale greyish beige, open, regularly ring-shaped ‘head’ on very dark mahogany brown beer, approaching black but with ruddy-bronze edges. Lovely aroma of hazelnut paste, melting black chocolate bars, granola, cocoa, walnut shells, oxidized madera, black peppercorns, dry tea bags, coffee grounds. Sweetish onset, dried figs, raisins, touch apple peel, softish carb, oily mouthfeel though perhaps a bit thinner than expected; pleasant hazelnutty and toffeeish malt body with the expected oatmeal slickness to it, leading a more chocolatey, but also very lightly oxidized character – though the latter in a very elegant, delicious way, adding depth and maturity. Bittersweet finish, smooth and gentle with some leafy-spicy hop bitterness to it which no doubt was more pungent when young. Already a bit thinned, this lacks a little bit in ‘oomph’ for what it is, but it has remained a solid, delicious enough stout for sure.
Tried
on 16 Oct 2018
at 14:07
7/10
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Tried
on 11 Sep 2018
at 08:46
7/10
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on 11 Sep 2018
at 08:46
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Tried
on 11 Sep 2018
at 08:46