Collective Choice (2025)
Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Series Out of Production|
Score
7.63
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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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9.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle from Tavour
Appearance: dark brown with a tan head
Aroma: coffee, coconut, chocolate, roasty
Flavor: medium sweetness, medium bitterness
Texture: light carbonation, creamy feel, full body, long finish
Delicious
Appearance: dark brown with a tan head
Aroma: coffee, coconut, chocolate, roasty
Flavor: medium sweetness, medium bitterness
Texture: light carbonation, creamy feel, full body, long finish
Delicious
Tried
from Bottle
from Tavour
on 29 Jan 2026
at 16:17
7.8/10
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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
7.4/10
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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
7.6/10
Tried
from Draft
on 23 May 2025
at 19:25
8/10
Tried
on 23 May 2025
at 18:22
7/10
MBCC 2025. Session #2
American oak, a bit grassy, sweet. Molasses. Not really sophisticated and impressive.
7☆4☆7☆3☆14》35
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
8/10
Roasty and earthy with some vanilla, cocoa and coconut, hints of barrel and licorice.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 May 2025
at 16:54
7.8/10
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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
8.6/10
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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