Firestone Walker Brewing PNC (2021)

PNC (2021)
(Batch of PNC)

 

Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Rotating
Score
7.85
ABV: 13.3% IBU: 32 Ticks: 42
A Firestone Walker classic returns with the 2021 vintage of PNC - an imperial buckwheat stout aged in bourbon, brandy and tequila barrels. PNC was first made many years ago in commemoration of the American publican. Ever since, it has endured as a cult favorite, made in small batches with limited availability. This latest edition is the first PNC release to undergo extended aging for 24 months, providing maximum smoothness and barrel integration. The result is a bold and deliciously complex beer, with a gothic symphony of flavors that can only come from PNC.
 

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7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

12 oz boxed bottle. Aroma has notes of booze, wood, chocolate, sherry, cinnamon, licorice, cola. Pours opaque dark brown to black with a one finger beige head with decent retention. Taste is lightly to moderately sweet, a little savory and moderately bitter with flavors like the aroma with an emphasis on notes of tequila, sherry and licorice.


8.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

12oz boxes bottle from Tavour. Dark brown pour, beige foamy head settles to ring. Aroma is boozy, malty, molasses, sweet. Taste is sweet, boozy, nutty, chocolate, toffee and a hint of vanilla. Lingering sweetness and warmth.

Tried from Bottle on 06 May 2025 at 03:40


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

On tap at Apex. Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has bourbon, dark bready malts, and chocolate. Flavour has a ton of bourbon up front, lots of rich malts. Huge boozy beer, well executed.

Tried from Draft on 13 Aug 2024 at 21:16


7.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Draught at Monk's: blackish with beige head. Aroma is boozy barrels, loads of chocolate, vanilla. Taste is boozy, boosty, sweetish. Complex. Large.

Tried on 10 Mar 2024 at 00:08


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draught @ Brouwers, listed specifically as Batch 2. Dark brown, medium head. Sweet, toasty, the tequila barrel hits boozy, it'�s off-dry, for me I miss richness, so the barrel throws decent complexity but it doesn'�t really come together.

Tried on 28 Jan 2024 at 01:40


7.8

Big boozy stout. Creamy, some body from the buckwheat. Roasty coffee

Tried from Draft on 01 Aug 2023 at 16:09


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, vanilla, caramel, treacle, hints of tequila, taste is similar, sweet, a bit of fruit.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jul 2023 at 14:21


8

Lõhn on väga vaadine, burboon, alks, linnnased, röst, magus, šokolaad. Maitse on sarnane, aga ka oma jagu linnaseid, mõrudust, tekiilat, suhkrut. Õhtu lõpetajana täitsa mõnusalt dekadentlik, aga liiga magusa poole kaldu, et saada paremat hinnet.

Tried on 06 Jul 2023 at 23:54


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pours pitch black and a brown head with short and little retention. Aroma's: boozy, roasty, (red) fruity, umami, molasses, rye bread. Retronasal it's bourbon, vanilla, boozy alcohol, sweet, a bit malt/grain, which is probably the buckwheat, and it is somewhat different than barley malt, molasses, roasty (smoked even). Flavour is full sweet but with some roasty bitterness for balance. Alcohol is warming but not too hot. Medium bodied. Prickly carbonation. Long finish, with that same grain/malt character, and moderate roasty bitter. World class as always.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Dec 2022 at 20:42


8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Poured from the tap. Very dark brown with small beige head. Nice balance of the various barrels, lots of dark fruit and caramel malt. Great.

Tried from Draft on 12 Jul 2022 at 20:31