Firestone Walker 14 | Beyond the Pour Beer Review #297

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Definitely worth the effort to get it if you can. Bottle sent to me by Ryan (http://www.youtube.com/StumpyJoeJr) in trade for a Founders CBS.

From the Firestone Walker website:

Following are descriptions of key components with their original code names:




Double Double Barrel Ale (10.9% ABV) - (31%) of final blend

Aged 100% in retired Firestone Union Barrels




-Double strength English Pale Ale

OG= 24.0P FG=5.8P IBU=30 Color = 16 / A Double version of our flagship created by Ali Razi




Sticky Monkey (12% ABV) - (29%) of final blend

Aged in Bourbon and Brandy Barrels




-English Barley Wine

OG = 24P FG = 4.5P IBU = 45 Color = 28 / Brewed with Mexican Turbinado (Brown) suger




Parabola (13% ABV) - (27%) of final blend

Aged in Bourbon Barrels




-Russian Imperial Oatmeal Stout




OG=30P FG=7.5P IBU=80 Color=Black / Hopped with Simcoe, Bravo, Styrian Golding and East Kent Golding




Velvet Merkin (6% ABV) -- (7%) of final blend

100% Aged in Bourbon barrels




-Traditional Oatmeal Stout

OG= 15P FG=5.5 IBU=32.5 Color= Black / 15% Oats / Hopped with 100% US grown Fuggles




Good Foot (13% ABV) - (3%) of final blend

Aged in Bourbon Barrels




-American Barley Wine

OG = 23P FG = 5.5P IBU = 80 Color = 26 / Brewed with copious amounts of American grown hops




Black Xantus(11% ABV) - (3%) of final blend

-Aged in Bourbon Barrels




-Coffee Infused Imperial Stout

OG= 27P FG = 6.8P IBU = 55 Color Black / Rich Stout made with Mexican Coffee roasted locally by Joebella Coffee Company

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[ChadzBeerReviews]

sounds EPIC! A lot of people say this is on par if not superior to Parabola. I have to trade with Ryan for a bottle!

[TheEndosymbiosis]

@ChadzBeerReviews I'll be doing Parabola in the next couple of days. It'll be my very last review of the year.

[BeerGeekNation]

Thought no reviews this week ;)

[TheEndosymbiosis]

@BeerGeekNation I was running behind due to the holidays and I want to get to #300 before January. I've got to edit up a "Year of Beer 2011" as well. Busy me.

[NYRfan4ever]

Great review. I have a bottle of this in the cellar that I've been aging for over a year. Did you get 15?

[TheEndosymbiosis]

@NYRfan4ever Jamison is sending me a bottle in an upcoming trade.

[TheEndosymbiosis]

@Tantrum777 I'll definitely age the 15 then when I get it. Sounds like 15 wasn't nearly as good as 14.

[TheEndosymbiosis]

@paternzen Heh. I was tempted to give it an A+ but I didn't think it QUITE got there. It's really a semantic thing anyway. Cheers!

[TheEndosymbiosis]

@HopZine I wish I could get some Kernel stuff here in the States. I've heard really amazing things about their beers. FW14 isn't as rare as some other stuff that's out there, but it's still pretty rare. We don't get FW in Michigan so I'm lucky to have friends who will send it to me.

[TheEndosymbiosis]

@HopZine I wish I could get some Kernel stuff here in the States. I've heard really amazing things about their beers. FW14 isn't as rare as some other stuff that's out there, but it's still pretty rare. We don't get FW in Michigan so I'm lucky to have friends who will send it to me.

[TheEndosymbiosis]

@StumpyJoeJr Yeah, it was an amazing beer but I didn't think it was QUITE worth an A+. Very very close though. If I had another bottle I'd definitely stash it for awhile to see how it aged.