Firestone Walker Brewing Collective Choice (2025)

Collective Choice (2025)
(Batch of Collective Choice (2022))

 

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

  Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Series
Score
7.42
ABV: 11.5% IBU: 42 Ticks: 8
Collective Choice 2025 is our fourth member-curated stout, crafted with coffee, cocoa nibs, and toasted coconut chosen through a 2024 member vote. This blend of two barrel-aged beers pours an opaque black with espresso foam, offering aromas of roasted coffee, vanilla latte, coconut, and a hint of cherry. Full-bodied and boozy, it delivers rich flavors of chocolate-covered espresso beans, coconut macaroons, and German chocolate cake—a perfect start to the new year!
 

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7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Просто добротный и сбалансированный стаут с шоокладом, немного сухой, есть жженое кофе. Но на фоне убер пастриков проигрывает.

Tried on 31 May 2025 at 00:47


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at MBCC 2025 (Blue session), pours black with a small tan head. Aroma has plenty of espresso beans, coconut, and medium roast. Flavour has lots of coconut upfront, with gentle espresso in back, soft cocoa, and dry dark sugars on the finish. Cohesive and reasonably complex. Very good.

Tried from Draft on 27 May 2025 at 16:44


7

Tried from Draft on 23 May 2025 at 19:25



7

MBCC 2025. Session #2
American oak, a bit grassy, sweet. Molasses. Not really sophisticated and impressive.
7☆4☆7☆3☆14》35

Tried from Can on 23 May 2025 at 17:51


8

Roasty and earthy with some vanilla, cocoa and coconut, hints of barrel and licorice.

Tried from Draft on 23 May 2025 at 16:54


7.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

On tap at MBCC 2025, blue session. Pours dark brown with a beige head. Roasted malts, bread crusts, dark molasses, espresso, charred bourbon barrels. Flavour has roasted malts, burnt crusts, espresso, charred bourbon. Very nice.

Tried from Draft on 23 May 2025 at 16:37


8.6
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle. Pours clear mahogany, small beige head good lacing. Aroma is cinnamon, coconut, bourbon, mocha, dark sugars, hazel nut. Flavor is mediudm plus sweet, light plus bitter. Medium body.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Mar 2025 at 04:37