Parabola (2022)
(Batch of Parabola)
Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.76
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Of all the beers in our Proprietor’s Vintage Series, Parabola is the most notorious. It is always a beast of a beer, with intense flavors of black cherry, dark chocolate, vanilla and roast coffee-- yet each annual release also bears its own subtle imprint. We took the extra step of aging the beer entirely in 12-year-old bourbon barrels for this latest edition. These older-stock barrels accentuated Parabola’s signature richness with vintage-specific notes of stone fruit, fudge, and tobacco.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from my cellar. Inky black pour, small foamy beige head settles out to thin ring. Boozy, warm aroma with notes of chocolate. Taste is sweet with a huge boozy kick, roasty, chocolate. Lingering heat. 4 years have been kind to this beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Apr 2026
at 05:53
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Black beer with a brown head. Coffee, roast, and light bourbon aroma. Bourbon and chocolate flavor with coffee and roast. Medium plus bodied. Bourbon and roast linger with coffee and light chocolate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2023
at 23:04
8.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Draught at Gourmet Haus. Massive molasses, booze, whiskey and cocoa aroma. Beautiful! Pours deep black with brown highlights and minimal brown head as a ring. Flavor is boozy, dusted chocolate, vanilla, blackstrap molasses. Such a great beer.
Tried
on 21 Mar 2023
at 23:59
8.2/10
Molasses, malt, stewed fruit. Moving towards a barley wine
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Jan 2023
at 20:41
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle picked up from Beer Republic Webshop, Breda, Netherlands and consumed at Wohnmobil Stellplatz Bahnhof, Mittenwald Saturday 5th November 2022 listening to Rufus du Sol on Tidal, we have had a great day with Rhys up Karwendel and walking around Mittenwald and then onto Lautersee. Pours black with a slim tan head. Nice aroma, mostly chocolate but roast malts and subtle bourbon wafts. In the mouth this is super indulgent, chocolate, fudge then a little chocolate brownie and with a little boozy edge. Again maybe not as good as some that I've had from these guys but it's still very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2022
at 06:43
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Vintage No. 14. A black beer, a head is mediuma nd yellowish beige. Aroma has strenght, liquorice and salt liquorice, bourbon, caramel, some dried fruitness and sweetness, prune and raisin, light and dry barrel and vanilla. Taste has strong maltyness, liquorice and salt liquorice, barrel, caramel, light bourbon. Ful bodied, very smooth, not stickyness. Huge beer. Powerful, smooth, drinkable, complex.
Tried
on 30 Oct 2022
at 10:41
7/10
Dun, scherp, eerdere jaren waren beter imo
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Oct 2022
at 20:36
7/10
Röst, must šokolaad, kohv, linnased, vanilje, väike puuviljane noot. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2022
at 01:57
9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle. Pours inky black, small brown head, good lacing. Aroma is dark cocoa, bourbon, vanilla, earth, molasses, treacle, a hint of smoke. Flavor is medium plus sweet, light plus bitter, extremely well integrated, smooth. Full body, silky. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2022
at 04:03
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at Churchkey. The complexity of the last year's version is no or there of course. Still has really rich bourbon barrel notes, but not quite as awesome a final product as 2021. Monster beer..slowed me down.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Jun 2022
at 01:08