Double DBA - Batch 10,000
Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Bitter - ESB / Strong Bitter Special|
Score
7.81
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
12 oz. bottle. Pours dark brown, with a fair, fine, beige head. The aroma is caramel, cloves, vanilla, anise, and heavy oak. Sweet and sugary and boozy, with a mellow, backing bitterness. Heavy, syrupy, and a bit slick. Nice barrel character and malts, but a bit hot.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Pours a deep ruby brown body, with a few small particles, and a frothy beige head with a few patches retention. Aroma's: fruity, boozy, caramel/fudge, fruit candy. Retronasal it's sweetish, oak, vanilla, boozy, (red) fruity. Flavour is above moderate sweet and light woody bitter. Alcohol is quite warming but not too sharp. Medium bodied. Long finish with sweetness, wood, light bitter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
A dark brown beer, a head is quite small and beige. Aroma has caramel maltyness, some dried fruitness of raisin, also barrel, vanilla. Taste has dried fruitness, raisin, dates, caramel, light barrel. Medium+ bodied. Complex and balanced. Very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12oz shared @ Ryan's (thx for the beer, dude!) with Farees. Appearance: hazy dark copper with a tan head. Aroma: caramel, American oak, toffee. Taste: along the same lines. Overall: good one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured from 355mL bottle (2023; no. 04). Hazy copper with small off-white head. Toffee, oaky wood, some butterscotch, enjoyable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
12 oz. bottle, pours a deep dark amber mahogany with a small beige head. Aroma is full of bourbon, toasted caramel, bready malt, and some vanillin. Flavour is rich, with lots of butterscotch, plenty of bourbon barrels, some vanillin, and bready toffee. Lots of bourbon, butterscotch and bready toffee that mixes well. Excellent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle, 355 ml, shared with others. Brown with beige head. Sweet caramel, toffee, some dates. sweetish. Bourbon. Medium bodied,
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pours clear chestnut, small beige head, good lacing. Aroma is bourbon, caramel, toffee, date, bread. Flavor is medium sweet, light plus bitter. Fairly hot. Medium body. Noice
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Keg at City swiggers. Pours deep ruby, nose is red berries, coconut, vanilla, spruce, caramel, taste is sweet, fruity, vanilla, minty/spruce, chewy toffee.