Double DBA - Batch 10,000
Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale - English Special|
Score
7.82
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Welcome to a special imperial edition of the beer that started it all for Firestone Walker: DBA. We brewed this batch at double strength, then aged it for a year in 11-year-old Old Fitzgerald wheated bourbon barrels, which enhanced DBA's classic flavors of toffee and caramel with notes of baking spice, cocoa powder and dried fig. The result is Double DBA Batch 10k - a commemorative release that marks the 10,000th batch of beer brewed at our Paso Robles, California brewery.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8
12 oz bottle shared by tfontana, thank you..
Aroma has mild bourbon, raisins, toffee . The flavor follows with a mild bourbon throughout. Malt dominates with toffee, raisin, mild earth.. No oxidation or off flavors. Alcohol is not found. Pretty good as expected.
Aroma has mild bourbon, raisins, toffee . The flavor follows with a mild bourbon throughout. Malt dominates with toffee, raisin, mild earth.. No oxidation or off flavors. Alcohol is not found. Pretty good as expected.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2026
at 13:13
7.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle pour (not sure where I got it). Dark orange-light brown, ring of head, lacing. Aroma is strong bourbon, toffee, dark fruit. Taste is strong bourbon, toffee, raisin, light brown sugar. Smooth texture, soft carbonation, finish as taste. Good strength and well balanced.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2026
at 04:45
7.4/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2024
at 19:06
8.3/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2024
at 20:33
8.4/10
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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.
Tried
on 07 Apr 2024
at 09:19
7.9/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Feb 2024
at 09:22
8/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2024
at 08:57
8.2/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2024
at 05:35
8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2024
at 03:58
8/10
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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,
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Dec 2023
at 19:51