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(has 1 batch)
Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Highland Park BreweryStout - Imperial Special
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Score
7.91
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Brewed with our friends at Highland Park Brewery, this stout is stuffed with chocolate and roast barley malts and was aged for a year in premium bourbon barrels. Aromas of semi-sweetened dark chocolate, fig, and vanilla meet flavors of bourbon and baking spices. Simultaneously viscous and smooth, and delivered in a limited-edition 500 mL bottle, this collaboration is not to be missed.
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9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
Bottle: Poured a pitch-black color stout with a small dark brown foamy head with some retention and some lacing notes. Aroma of chocolate notes with some bourbon notes with vanilla and residual sugar notes. Taste is also a mix of chocolate notes with some bourbon notes and vanilla with balanced residual sugar notes. Body is full with an oily texture and good carbonation with no real discernible alcohol notes. Enjoyable BA stout with great balance between bourbon and residual sugar notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2026
at 19:18
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A deep dark stout with a very thin mocha head. In aroma, sweet fruity chocolate malt with dark fruits, licorice, alcohol warmth, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity chocolate malt with dark fruits, licorice, alcohol warmth, light bourbon barrel notes, woody notes, very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2026
at 23:58
8.3/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2026
at 20:01
8.4/10
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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.
N: bourbon, fudge, chocolate, vanilla
P: mellow, vanilla, bourbon, vanilla bourbon, hint of cinnamon, faint burnt butter, dash of cardamon. Good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2026
at 19:59
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Rating number 8,700. 500 ml bottle from Tavour. Opaque dark brown color. Frothy brown head settles to a small cap. Aromas of dark chocolate, oak and bourbon. Flavor upfront is sweet roasted malt, brown sugar, bourbon and oak. Added notes of vanilla and dark dried fruits. The high ABV is barely noticeable. Finishes sweet and sticky.
Tried
from Bottle
from Tavour
on 30 Nov 2025
at 05:35
8/10
2022 vintage from total wine. Dark pour, oily, small tan head . Smell is coffee, dark chocolate. Vanilla, booze, pretty elite, will buy another
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 02:12
8.6/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2024
at 19:38
7.6/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Sep 2024
at 07:50
8/10
Tried
on 13 Sep 2024
at 14:09
8/10
Tried
on 21 Jul 2023
at 11:45