Firestone Walker Double Double Barrel Ale

Brewed by Firestone Walker Brewing Co.
Style: Barley Wine
Paso Robles, California USA

Serve in Snifter

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Numba 10! Appearance: Pours like a murky apple cider with a few soapy suds a top. Almost looks like a kraussened yeast starter. Aroma: Caramel, hard cider, spiced cider, spicy hops, pear and dark booze. Taste: Caramel, bitter euro hops, apple crisp and dark rum. Mouthfeel: thick and warming. Overall: My god I loved it. While on paper its double the double barrel ale, its really like 10 x better than OG DBA.

Cask at Real ale festival. Sweet buttery delicous awesomeness. Easy to drink. vanilla oakiness.

Had this on tap at Bailey’s Taproom in Portland, OR. Colour... dark amber with an ecru head. Nose... MALTY! Mapleine, sweet, toffee, treacle. Palate... VERY MALTY! Coating, Scottish toffee, brown sugar, dulce de leche, turbinado and a loooooong finish!

Cask @ Pizza Port Real Ale Fest 2009. Pours a medium copper color with a one finger thick beige head, spotty lacing. Lots of caramel and toffee on the nose as well as light herbal hops and spice. Flavor was also very malty with tons of toffee and finishing with a sturdy hop backbone.

On tap at the brewery in Paso Robles, it was an opaque gold pour with a nice balance between hops and malt. Very smooth

On cask at San Diego Real Ale Fest, Carlsbad (6/12/09): Pours a transparent dark amber copper with a frothy, creamy well-lacing light beige head. Aroma of sweet toasty dark caramel malt and fruity raisin complexity. Body starts with good fullness and sweet toasty caramely English malty character with a nice piny hop balance and some light fruity complexity. Finishes slightly warming and semi-sweet A nicely-styled and enjoyable brew.

On Tap at Blue Palms. Small tan head over a beautiful hazed amber body. Lightly hoppy with a few dark fruits and some toffee. Taste is rich with toffee, cherry, plum, and coconut milk. Silky mouthfeel. Light bubbles...great.

Herbal-tea-colored under good head and lacing and dry - not wet - hay aroma and good taste of a session beer. Palate is creamy enough. Overall good beer but much better as it warms.

On nitro at the brewhouse. Pours a light amber with frothy cream head. Aroma is of cherry, stone fruit and some malt. Taste is maraschino cherry, pear, malt, chocolate milk, caramel and some toffee. Overall, this is a beer that is very easy to drink which is rather odd for a 12% beer. Alcohol is really hidden.

Cloudy reddish brown with a full sheet of frothiness laced to all hell. Nose was toasty with underlying hoppiness pointing in a herbal, spicy direction. Plump, citrus flavors..fruit flesh, like apricot and overripe peach. Bitter finish that turns somewhat chalky and/or plasticy. full bodied.