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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On tap at the Firestone night at Stone Bistro. Pours a dark copper with off-white head. Lots of fruit in this one. Caramel, grapefruit, toffee, dark fruit, and sweet bready malt. Pretty good beer, well balanced.

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.

Pours amber with an offwhite head. Aroma is citrus, pear and caramel. Taste is tart with a sweet finish. Light mouth feel made this esy to drink. Nice sessionable brew.

Sampled at Deconstructed event during LA Beer Week, this tasted milder than the ABV. Had more of a British quality. Bourbon flavors were very evident but not dominant.

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.

Dark orange brown pour with thin white head. Malt and caramel aroma. Fruity flavour. Fruity finish with some piney hop. Very full bodies.

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.

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.

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.

8th rating. Tap at Stone’s Firestone night tonight. Pours copper with no head. Nose is sweet and boozy. Taste is sweet, boozy, somewhat hoppy, very much liquory, and east coast hoppy.