Helldorado
(has 3 batches)
Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Regular|
Score
7.72
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An Imperial Blonde Ale or Blonde Barley Wine; Helldorado has the lightest color of any of the beers in our barrel program but carries a great deal of interesting barrel character: vanilla, light char and amazing lavender-honey notes. Rich boozy honey liqueur character and loads of smooth sweet toasted malt to finish. The El Dorado hops dance in the background without playing a dominant role in the flavor profile. This beer gets better and better the longer it is in barrel.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
0n tap at prefunk Boise. Pours out a amber with a sand ring of a head. Nose is booze vanilla lots of caramel sweetness. Taste is more of the heavy booze but lots of the caramel malty sweetness vanilla I love me some heavy thick sweet beers.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Aug 2015
at 21:57
8.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 9
On tap at PreFunk. Wow, first impression, first sip, socks knocked off. Heavy vanilla, sweet, slick, sticky, burn. Dull pour made up for in aroma and taste. Total alcohol bomb, but tasty. Will have to see how this ages. AAA+++ 2015 vin5age on 8/2419
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Aug 2015
at 20:28
9/10
Tried
on 06 Jun 2015
at 15:41
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Draft at haymarket. From notes. Loads of dark fruit, rasin and malty Carmel. Clean and surprisingly crisp. Very good.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 May 2015
at 21:38
8.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Draft at Churchkey’s "Firestone Walker Full Portfolio Release Party" event. Poured a hazy golden yellow color, small white head. Very smooth, sweet candy toffee notes, notes of light brittle. Light vanilla, some golden raisins. Sweet malts. Smooth, no alcohol burn, but lots of warming sensations in the belly. Solid.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Apr 2015
at 23:54
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
This is a lot more tempered then some of their other big beers. Still a pretty large barrel aroma here, with some light citrus and something like plum. Pours golden amber with ok head and lacing. Light sweet finish with a hint of bitterness. Tap at Churchkey.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Apr 2015
at 16:54
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at WOB LoDo, GABF weekend
Cloudy orange with a small white head, good lacing. Aroma is woody, vanilla and bourbon. Taste is woody, bourbon with a touch of honey
Very good
Cloudy orange with a small white head, good lacing. Aroma is woody, vanilla and bourbon. Taste is woody, bourbon with a touch of honey
Very good
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Oct 2014
at 13:34
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Freshcraft. Pours a honey gold with some white head. Nose is honey comb, booze, agave, malt, mead. Flavor is very sweet but gobs of honey, booze, earthy, agave. Boozy finish. Almost a braggot there’s so much honey to it.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Oct 2013
at 07:20
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap. Pours with a massive white head over a hazy blonde-yellow hued body. Aromas are spicy, toasted oak, vanilla, marshmallow, light hops, grainy, bready, biscuity and malty. Flavors are fruity, calvados like, sulfur, bitter, grainy, fruit, barrel and some crazy oak tannins and vanilla. Fuller carbonation, low body for the ABV.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Feb 2013
at 11:31
10/10
Tried
on 06 Jan 2013
at 22:29