Firestone Walker Stickee Monkee
Vital Statistics
From the brewer
This brew sits firmly in the English Barley Wine class. A beer formulated to sit on the sweeter and malty side so that we could utilize it for blending. Turbinado brown sugar from Mexico adds wonderful molasses flavors that are reminiscent of Belgian candi sugar. It has a full body and lush texture with barrel expression all over this beer: toasted oak, coconut, leather and cigar tobacco.
Average Scores
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2015 release
Still one of my favorites! Smooth, buttery, dark fruits, molasses, caramel, dark chocolate.
2014 release
Still as delicious! I was tasting a slightly buttery taste this time?!? Hurray for the ProgressDialog!
2014 release
I think the key to this beer is: drink it by itself. After other beers it ends up seeming stronger-balanced toward its idiosyncratic flavors: caramel, prune, sugar, which can get to be a bit much. Still undeniably excellent though.
2014 release
Amazing. Faultless. Smells like molasses, on the palate some fruity flavors (plumish, but not plum itself) clear but balanced with everything else. A slight dryness from the aging, adding an oakiness as well which balances the sweetness. A sharpness from the sugar on the backend, sweet-ish but not sweet.
2014 release
OMG! This beer was simply perfect! Smells like molasses and dried fruits, with a little boozy side. Amazing and complex taste achieving a perfect balance between molasses, oak and fruit tastes. Sweet but not too much with a nicely bitter finish.
2014 release
Ommmmmmg. Firestone dialed down everything that was over the top about this beer in the past, and now it's basically perfect. Tons of complex wood and molasses, rounded plummy fruit on top, and a sweet but amazingly clean finish. Absolutely one of the best beers I've ever had.
unknown release
Pours opaque and headless, like liquid toffee. Sweet, with tons of molasses and bourbon: a stronger §ucaba, maybe? Surprising, super-clean finish. If it were just a little less strongly alcoholic in flavor, it would have been perfect. I'm just glad to have been able to try out outside the brewery.