Dark & Stormy
Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Special|
Score
6.89
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From the jungles of Jamaica to the barrel room at Firestone Walker Brewing Company comes Dark & Stormy—an exotic mashup of Helldorado and Velvet Merkin aged in rum barrels with a touch of hand-zested lime and ginger. Like its namesake cocktail, Dark & Stormy combines a rich sunset color with spicy rum goodness. Helldorado (blonde barleywine, 80%) sets the tone with its signature honey-coconut character, while Velvet Merkin (oatmeal stout, 20%) rounds out the blend with a hint of rich roastiness. Both beers were aged in barrels sourced from a leading Jamaican rum producer, imbuing Dark & Stormy with delectable rum qualities unlike anything Firestone Walker has offered before.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours amber brown. Aroma and flavor is basically a rum cocktail, rum, coconut, sweet, malt, lime, malt, booze. Overall: decent cocktail, but not a good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2019
at 17:55
7/10
Rum cocktail, coconut, sweet, malt, lime, malt, booze.
Tried
on 17 Jun 2019
at 22:04
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle [thanks Kevinreddirt] at home shared with Caesar. Amber to reddish color, average sized white head. Smell and taste malts, raisins, lime, ginger, balanced though, sweet, don't really get liquor. Maybe it's the sticky caramelish notes that come from the rum. Solid. 6-3-8-4-15
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jun 2019
at 13:50
7/10
Gember is een interessante toevoeging op een barley wine. Rum ook aanwezig, maar niet overheersend. Best lekker
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jun 2019
at 22:14
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Aroma is bold limes, ginger, caramel malts. Flavor shows a bold amount of limes, subtle raisins, mild ginger. I mean... if you like the cocktail you probably will love this. Not massively impressed for $9.75.
Tried
on 11 May 2019
at 21:36
6/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 May 2019
at 17:39
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
(Bottle, 0.355 l - 2018 vintage, from Alko, 20190509) The beer poured brown and clear. Its head was small and white. Aroma had vanilla, malts, wood, ginger and lime. Palate was medium bodied and warming with medium carbonation. Flavours were wood, vanilla, sweetness, ginger, malts, more sweetness and bitterness. Aftertaste had sweetness, vanilla, ginger and bitterness. A confusing and too messy brew. Too far away from beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 May 2019
at 20:20
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ MBCC'18 [ Yellow Session ]. - Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2018, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V, Danmark. [ As Firestone Walker Dark & Stormy ]. ABV: 13.6%. Clear medium amber colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, dark malt, caramel, sweet malt, bread, light spiced. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, caramel, sweet malt, alcohol - sweet alcohol - rum, finish is light ginger bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20180511] 7-3-7-4-16
Tried
on 12 Feb 2019
at 15:05
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Quite a different offering from Firestone Walker who does the special issues quite well in my estimation. Obtained from the area's only real craft beer store, I am trying the first day I have it. So there you go. I lift into my New Belgium globe glass to see a dark amber body finished by a thin layer of eggshell white foam but with active carbonation. Tilting the glass to smell the contents I get citrus perhaps and certainly some spice, unusual. The taste, yes, quite different, lime as advertised, malt, coconut, slightly medicinal. Actually improves as it heats up but can't say I will ever purchase again. Nonetheless my limited horizons are expanded.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jan 2019
at 23:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle - pours gold, white head - nose and taste of rum, ginger, lime - medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2019
at 00:34