Fire Stoker
Toppling Goliath Brewing Company in Decorah, Iowa, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Smoked Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.44
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Barrel-Aged Smoked Porter. Gather round a glass of Fire Stoker and enjoy the creamy notes of vanilla and chocolate chips. Breathe deep of the aromas of bourbon while you note hints of applewood smoke, oak, and dark chocolate on the palate.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Can (3/13/23) from Liquor Junction, Reading. Opaque dark brown, ring of head, no lacing. Aroma is strong chocolate, bourbon, hint of alcohol burn (mellows as it warms), vanilla, caramel. Taste is strong caramel, bourbon, maple, apple wood, mild alcohol burn. Smooth texture, soft carbonation, alcohol burn, finish as taste. Alcohol too present and no smoke (maybe due to age?).
Tried
from Can
from
Liquor Junction
on 29 Mar 2026
at 00:16
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16 ounce can. Canned on 3/14/23. Jet black pour. Brief beige head. Roasted malt nose has big notes of chocolate, maple and bourbon. Flavoring is big and bold. Hot alcohol burn dominates upfront. Notes of dark chocolate, maple, bourbon and vanilla. Incredibly intense, but the alcohol dominates. Best sipped slowly and in small quantity.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Dec 2023
at 05:41
8.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Sampled from the tap at Northern Taphouse. Pours black with a brown head that dissipates quickly to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of maple with vanilla, chocolate and bourbon supporting. Flavor has some bitter dark grains and chocolate with a growing maple, roasted malts and a touch of vanilla underlying.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Dec 2023
at 20:07
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Draft. Black beer with a low dark tan head. Maple and caramel aroma. Maple and caramel flavor with chocolate and light bourbon. Medium-plus bodied. Maple and caramel linger with chocolate and light bourbon.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Sep 2023
at 18:39
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
16oz can from my brother. Near black pour, tiny ring of bubbles. Aroma is maple, sweet, roasty. Taste brings in some campfire notes, roasty, sweet, maple, vanilla and light chocolate. Full and creamy, mouth coating. In the endd though it's just way too sweet. could not finish a half pour.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Aug 2023
at 00:21
8.4/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 7.5
Texture 9
Overall 8
Maple syrup, vanilla, chocolate malt, alcohol, hay, and wood smoke aroma. Black with small brown head. Very sweet maple syrup, vanilla, chocolate graham malt, and moderately bitter smokey wood/hay flavor. Nice body - boozy finish but like a beer at half the ABV. Very tasty but a beast.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jul 2023
at 01:11