Firestone Walker Brewing Parabola (2025)

Parabola (2025)
(Batch of Parabola)

 

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

  Stout - Imperial Special
Score
7.50
ABV: 14.1% IBU: - Ticks: 359
Parabola 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. For this latest edition, we aged the beer for a year in 12-year Elijah Craig and 11-year Henry McKenna barrels. These coveted bourbon vessels imparted signature notes of charred oak, nougat, espresso and cinnamon, taking the Parabola experience to new heights.
 

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8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Draught @ Taphouse, CPH. Pours Black with a small beige head. Good roast, coffee, wood and slight Spice. Warming alcohol. Big sipper. 4.2

Tried on 16 Nov 2025 at 08:05


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

Black colour with small beige head.Aroma of bourbon and vanilla sweets warming mouth feels chocolate and coffee note nice roasted and toasted good well balanced also some licorice not nice overall.

Tried from Draft at Taphouse on 14 Nov 2025 at 14:00


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, maybe some notes from bourbon. something resembling honey. The aroma is super well composed and blended and it is very hard to pick up the individual details. Aroma is very good.
flavor is salty, woody, charred woody, alcohol bite, roasted malts, hard roasted malts, almost but not quite a burnt caramel note. flavor is a lot less rounded than aroma, and have this dark caramelly/ burnt caramelly note that i don't like at all in my imp stouts. apart from that, the imp stout is fantastic and perhaps the burnt caramel will go away after a few years, i'm having this very fresh - vintage 2025 in sep 2025.

Tried from Bottle from Kihoskh on 15 Sep 2025 at 21:52


8

Magus, mõru, vanilje, kuiv, röst, kohv, alks on päris tugev. Hea.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Jul 2025 at 19:11


7

Tried from Draft on 23 May 2025 at 19:24



8

Old skool roasty and stingy with hints of barrel and oak, some licorice and syrup

Tried on 23 May 2025 at 16:42


Real nice barrel. Leathery, tobacco, some cocoa, fantastic on #StoutSaturday

Last post with The Ghost for a bit. Everyone bid him adieu.

Tried from Bottle on 05 Apr 2025 at 22:06