15 (XV) Anniversary Ale
Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale Series Out of Production|
Score
7.82
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
22 oz. bottle, thanks to Ratman. Pours black, with a small, beige head. The aroma is cloves, butter toffee, mild coffee, vanilla, toasted oak, and cardamom. Sweet and malty, with a mellow bitterness. A bit boozy. Heavy, chewy, and bready. Beautiful and decadent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Early rating from Beer Buddy app
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Bottle, thanks Jonno. Aroma is sticky, toffee, bourbon barrel, booze! Taste is good, bourbon, dark fruit, black treacle, stickiness. Long long finish. Nice.
Backlog
--- Beer merged from original tick of Firestone 15 (XV) Anniversary Ale on 22 Oct 2017 at 17:48 - Score: 8. Original review text: LCI
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
sample from bottle @ZZT 2017 at Benzai's, shared by ElManana, pours dark brown with a khaki head. aroma of caramel, brown sugar, grain, figs, bourbon, Taste of grain, rye, caramel, toffee, sweet malts, alcoholic, bourbon, dried fruits, a bit over the top for a barley wine-ish style, full body, still ok --- Beer merged from original tick of Firestone 15 (XV) Anniversary Ale on 15 May 2018 at 20:38 - Score: 7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared at ZZT. Almost clear dark brown with small beige head. Lots of bourbon, toffee, dried herbs, light grass. Lots of sweet malts, alcohol, walnuts. Oxidized dried prunes, raisins. Marzipan, more alcohol. Over medium sweet and bitter. Almost full bodied.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle @ ZZT Fall 2017. Brown colour with small beige head. Smells sweet, malty, barleywine, chocolate. Tastes sweet, malty, raisins, barleywine. Full body, soft carbo.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
From bottle shared at Ratebeer Best awards and bottle-share. Dark brown to black color with off white head. Malty aroma, bread, caramel, chocolate, dark dried fruits, raisins, plums, honey, vanilla, wood, alcohol. Sweet and bitter taste. medium oily body with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
[1/29/17] Bottle/Can/Crowler/Growler at the RateBeer award ceremony bottle share at Flamingo Hotel in Santa Rosa. Brown. Vanilla, dark fruits, cookies, malt, caramel, sweet, rounded mouthfeel.