Firestone Walker 2023 Parabola Imperial Stout

Parabola is Firestone Walker's barrel-aged Russian imperial stout and the flagship of the Paso Robles brewery's barrel program, released once a year as a vintage. For the 2023 edition brewmaster Matt Brynildson went with a barrel lineup the brewery had never used to this extent: an equal split of 8-year-old Blanton's bourbon barrels and 12-year-old W.L. Weller wheated bourbon barrels, both from Buffalo Trace, with the beer resting a full year in wood before bottling at 13.5% ABV in 12 oz bottles. Brynildson called the barrels pretty rare and said he had long been a fan of Blanton's and more recently of Weller, and that together they add a new twist to the Parabola story. Firestone Walker's notes describe black cherry, dark chocolate, vanilla and roast coffee, with the Weller barrels contributing a cereal-grain note and the Blanton's barrels adding toasted coconut and cocoa nib. Drinkhacker's review found it creamy and balanced, with milk chocolate, desiccated coconut and a silky, long finish of chocolate sauce and vanilla bean. It shipped to all Firestone Walker markets alongside a limited spinoff, Paraboloid.

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