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Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Highland Park BreweryStout - Imperial Special
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7.80
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
From 0,5l bottle @ tasting Black Night 2025 Head is medium, tanned, good retention. Colour is dark, opaque. Aroma is bourbon, vanilla, dried fruits. Taste is full malty base, light oily mouthfeel, bourbon, vanilla, nutty, dried figs, nice balanced bitterness, soft carbonation, umami.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
C: opaque dark cola brown
N: bourbon, fudge, chocolate, vanilla
P: mellow, vanilla, bourbon, vanilla bourbon, hint of cinnamon, faint burnt butter, dash of cardamon. Good.
2022 vintage from total wine. Dark pour, oily, small tan head . Smell is coffee, dark chocolate. Vanilla, booze, pretty elite, will buy another
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Pours a jet black body and a nice brown head that doesn't last long. Aroma's: sweet, bourbon, alcohol, (red) fruity. Retonasal it's sweet, brown sugar, bourbon, dark fudge, rye. Flavour is heavy sweet, but not cloying, bourbon-y. Medium bodied. Fairly soft carbonation. Warming alcohol. Finishes with molasses, still sweet, but also light roast and bitterness. Sweet but delicious.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
500mL bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma has light bourbon barrels, a touch of pineapple, and light roast. Flavour has plenty of pineapple (WTF?), with light bourbon barrels, and a touch of roast. Very pineapple-y, which rather detracts from the barrels and complexity of the malts. Yet, it's still very good, just not at the heights of many FW beers.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, vanilla fudge, meaty, caramel, taste is similar, chewy, sweet, blackberry jam.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Draft. Black beer with a tan head. Chocolate and light caramel aroma with light bourbon. Caramel and toffee flavor with chocolate and bourbon. Medium bodied. Caramel and chocolate linger with bourbon and dried fruit.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pours clear mahogany, small brown head, good lacing. Aroma is boozy, cocoa, molasses, bourbon, leather. Flavor is merlin sweet, light plus bitter, boozy. Merlin body, silky.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Capped 500 from the brewery. Pours clear, very, very dark brown with a dark tan smear. Aroma of dark fruit, bourbon, vanilla and toasted/burnt malt notes. And I think heat as well. Quite full bodied. Not dry, but missed sticky. Flavor is dark figgy (not raisin) fruit, bourbon, t/b malt, a little heat, some vanilla. Finally gets some significant chocolate as the other flavors wear away. Excellent.