Odin DBRD Tasting: Firestone Walker XVIII Anniversary Ale

2015-05-14

Logs for this tasting

Amazing beer! Reminds a lot of the Sticky Monkey I like so much. Great mix of caramel, molasses, dark fruits and oak flavors.
My first impression of this is that this was largely Stickee Monkee in composition, due to the color, thinner mouthfeel and forward plum/date flavor, but apparently this beer is almost 50% Parabola. Never would have guessed. A clean-ish finish with just a bit of tannic / woody astringency to close. This probably needs time to mature -- it was really good but I'd take a straight Parabola or Stickee Monkee any day.