Firestone Walker Brewing Paraboloid (2022)

Paraboloid (2022)

 

Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production
Score
8.08
ABV: 15.0% IBU: 50 Ticks: 24
Our signature Parabola imperial stout achieves new heights in this limited small-batch release.The story of this beer began when we aged it in an equal selection of rare older-stock barrels from premium spirits producers - specifically 14 year Old Fitzgerald bourbon barrels and 18 year Sazerac rye whiskey barrels. These barrels complemented Parabola's classic dark chocolate, cherry and vanilla flavors by imparting hints of stone fruits, fudge, leather and peppery spice. Additionally, we aged the beer for a full two years prior to blending and bottling, cultivating an ultra-smooth mouthfeel fo this prodigiously flavorful beer.
 

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8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle at home shared with Laura. Opaque black color, no head. Aroma is malts, some roast, light liquorice notes. Flavor is malts, roasted malts, chocolate hints, liquor (whiskey?), malt bitter, bitter. Very pleasant.

Tried on 23 Oct 2025 at 21:39


8

Tried from Bottle on 27 Sep 2025 at 00:34


8.4
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Fake brown color. Smell like a tootsie and Rolo bar cake dipped in bourbon and vanilla. Heavy palate super smooth. Low carnation. Sweet, alcohol well hidden. Very rounded and warming. Liquid desser but not a pastry stout. This is my jam

Tried on 09 May 2025 at 14:56


8

Badge please. And go Penn state.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Dec 2024 at 19:03


8.8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle. Pours clear mahogany small beige head, good lacing. Aroma is quite boozy, hint of smoke, oaky, cocoa. Flavor is medium sweet, light plus bitter. Medium body. Lingering bitterness 5,9,8,4 17

Tried from Bottle on 14 Nov 2024 at 22:40


8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

A black beer, a head is medium and yellowish beige. Aroma has liquorice, salt liquorice, some bourbon, hint of barrel and vanilla. Intensive aroma. Taste has salt liquorice, roastiness, strong maltyness, bourbon. Full bodied, not stickyness. Very intensive and powerful beer. Great beer.

Tried on 19 Apr 2024 at 09:38


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Heavy, roasty and dry with some spicy rye notes, burnt coffee, licorice, earthiness, stingy wood, oak, bourbon and syrup, hints of mämmi, dark chocolate and cocoa. Intense and heavy with loads of dry roastiness.

Tried on 04 Apr 2024 at 16:57


8.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Tap at Gourmet Haus. Pours dark brown with mahogany highlights. Minimal tan head. Brown sugar and whiskey aroma. Flavor is booze, char and tar. Complex and tasty.

Tried from Draft on 06 Mar 2024 at 23:05


8.6

Raisins, chocolate, bourbon!

Tried from Bottle on 10 Dec 2023 at 19:12


7.6

wonderful and intheir yeast and fermentation to a T. Lovely boozy and super fruit estery. Bottle from chris

Tried from Bottle on 04 Nov 2023 at 21:49