Firestone Walker 10

Formerly brewed at Firestone Walker Brewing Co.
Style: American Strong Ale
Paso Robles, California USA

Bottle courtesy of Naven. He warned me about this one. Said it was comparable to Angel’s Share. Well, he was right. I think it might be better and more complex. Aroma is chocolate, dark fruit, and tobacco. Flavor is choc. covered cherries, tobacco, and a mild alcohol burn w/ an oaky finish. Also notice a nice bourbon flavor on the back of the tongue and in the throat. This is one excellent beer.

Bottle courtesy of jimbowood. I am 1 year away from my first taste of Angels Share, and this is the closest if not better than that. Mouthfeel of bourbon and vanilla straight from the beginning. It is all down hill from here.

Finnaly tracked down a case of this bad boy. Pours a very dark color, a dark copper thats almost black best describes it. Nice dark tan head that lasted well. The smell is very good with a hint of alcohol and roast. Im not sure I know enough about brews like this yet to pick out everything in it but this one was great. The taste is VERY complex with the roast and some other vanilla’ish flavors. The 12% ABV comes in just at the very end. Very drinkable for the ABV, and will only get smoother as it ages IMO.

Opened this one when we opened a full FW10-13 vertical. This has aged amazingly. Very dark brown color. Smells of tons of oak, bourbon, some vanilla, and sugars. The wonderful taste of malt and barrel just wonderful, vanilla, caramel and brown sugar.

Very oaky aroma, the hops are drowned. This thing tastes mostly like black licorice to me, and I am very okay with that. A crazy idea, with just a little too much noticeable alcohol at the end. Excellent.

Deep Ruby with a thin tan head. Gorgeous aroma of oka, vanilla, caramel, toffee, and oatmeal. Taste is very interesting oatmeal, plums, caramel, alcohol, background hops.

This beer is everything, a yummy drinkable barkeywine, with an exceptional complexity of bourbon, whisky, vanilla, and wood. A strong ale, this is an evening 12% and it is drinkable yet deserves sipping, after several minutes of aroma.. All kinds of hops, spearmint, peppermint.

(BOTTLED ON OCT. 25TH 2006)after much searching i finally found a few bottles of this.poured my snifter 3/4 full and witnessed a dark brown body with red highlights.a small light brown head surfaced and left nice lacing with the tip of the glass.the first whiff gave me a wonderful mix of chocolate,coffee,molasses,brandy,bourbon,dark fruits,sherry,and pine hops.the first sip put me in total shock!so many different flavors greeted my tounge it was hard to keep up.cherries,chocolate,molasses,bourbon,brandy,dark fruit,cocoa,alcohol,pine hops.....it just keeps going.its pretty hot but i bet 6 months and this thing was be perfect.im glad i have two more bottles to hold onto cuz this is a truley classic beer.(RE-RATE ON 4-09-2008)same color body with no head.the alcohol heat in the nose has mellowed substantially.i grab everything i got in the nose from the first few bottles i had,although everything is more melted together.the flavors have done much of the same honestly.in fact right now its drinking a lot like a port wine.id say htis is in its prime right now.