Unfiltered Double Barrel Ale (UDBA)
Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Special|
Score
7.00
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Our flagship brew highlights barrel-fermented batches from our patented Firestone Union blended with beer fermented in stainless steel. It opens with a biscuity toasted malt aroma and a hint of oak and vanilla. Pale malts create a smooth malty middle with ribbons of caramel, English toffee and toasted oak. A tribute to English pales traditionally fermented in cask.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bright amber, not much head. Aroma shows caramel, and a bit of fruitiness, along with toastier malt notes. Good body, CO2 feels prickly and weird with this more English flavour profile. Good complexity and plenty of wood in the finish, bringing everything together. This is a really cool hommage, like a strong version of Sam Smith Old Brewery Bitter.
Tried
on 02 Mar 2026
at 15:56
7/10
Keg at centennial. Pours golden amber, nose is toffee, caramel, honey, taste is sweet toffee, floral, vanilla, caramel. 7
Tried
on 06 Aug 2025
at 19:03
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On a flight at the brewery on 10th July 2024. Bright golden/amber body, wispy white head. Fairly sweet overall, caramel biscuits with a vanilla filling, light oak/woody injection.
Tried
on 11 Jul 2024
at 04:07
8/10
Right.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Jan 2023
at 15:15
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On tap at Firestone Walker, pours a clear copper amber with a small beige head. Nose is full of bready malt, dry toffee, and light caramel. Flavour follows accordingly, with dry toasted caramel, bready malt, and light toffee. There's a hint of oak that rounds this off. Subtle but more interesting than the regular DBA. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Jun 2021
at 06:38
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Draught @ the taproom Paso Robles. Pours a quite clear copper colour and a dense white head with little retention. Aroma's: toasted, light vegetal/sulphuric. Retronasal: toasted, hoppy, malty sweet. Flavour is light moderate bitter, very light sweet, fruity. Light bodied, good carbo. Finishes light bitter. Not remarkable, but tasty.
Tried
from Draft
at
Firestone Walker Brewing Company (Taproom, Visitors Center, Brewery Store)
on 26 Dec 2019
at 20:20
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Draft poured orange and clear, full bodied and creamy. Malty aroma, taste is oak with vanilla trace.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Jun 2018
at 22:16
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
4 oz pour on draft at B Side. Clear amber with beige head. Aromas of biscuit, caramel. Tastes of caramel, toffee, biscuit. Medium body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Jul 2016
at 20:49
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at the Firestone Walker Taproom in Marina del Rey, CA. Pours mostly clear gold with a foamy, white head. Nice bready character, lightly bitter with some leaves, toasted grains and caramel. Medium bodied with fine carbonation and creamy texture. Smooth on the finish with further bready malts and toffee accents. Very enjoyable. Well rounded.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jun 2016
at 02:33
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Grunt fill from Alberstons. Pours out a hazy amber with small fluffy head. Malt dominates the aroma, and kicks it up a notch in taste. Toffee, caramel, very mild bitterness. Unfiltered characteristics a nice addition.
Tried
on 02 Dec 2015
at 14:42