The Brew Site
The 805 Family of beers from Firestone Walker Brewing is a workhorse for the company, accounting for more than 50 percent of the brewery’s production. The mainstay is the 805 Original, a light, easy-drinking blonde ale, named for the 805 telephone area code representing Firestone Walker’s region on the Central … Continue reading
Parabola is the signature barrel-aged imperial stout from Firestone Walker Brewing, a massive, vintaged beer released each year, sometimes aged in bourbon barrels; I believe I may have a bottle squirreled away among my boxes of beer. The brewery also releases variants based on Parabola, and one of those is … Continue reading
A compilation of a number of beers I’ve recently received that I’m behind on posting: Von Ebert Brewing: Pils, Sector 7 Hazy IPA, Volatile Substance IPA Last month, Von Ebert’s Pils won gold at the World Beer Cup in the German-style Pilsener category, and both Sector 7 and Volatile Substance … Continue reading
Firestone Walker Brewing calls its Hopnosis IPA a “cold IPA” though it wasn’t immediately clear to me whether the brewery was playing on its use of Cryo Hops, or if more was involved. As it happens, there is more to it than deriving “cold” from “cryo” and FW details it … Continue reading
Last week I received a six-pack of Firestone Walker Brewing’s latest beer, a remix of its 805 Beer with a Cinco de Mayo twist—805 Cerveza. 805 is a golden ale that drinks like a lager, and 805 Cerveza is a proper lager brewed with lime, in collaboration with East LA … Continue reading
California’s Firestone Walker Brewing wants you to consider a couple of their beers for St. Patrick’s Day this year: Hopnosis IPA and Parabolita, a salted caramel barrel-aged stout. The company sent me samples of each this week, arriving just in time for the holiday. Here’s the pitch for each beer … Continue reading
Interesting weekend in beer news, and I’m not just talking about the Firestone Walker and Duvel Moortgat acquisition/merger/investment news or the just-wrapped Beer Bloggers Conference (next year’s BBC location: Tampa, Florida). What I’m also thinking of is one piece of news that may have gone unnoticed and unremarked-upon, but which … Continue reading
I realized it had been awhile since I received the PR bottle of Parabola, Firestone Walker’s barrel-aged Imperial Stout (the first time bottled, no less), and while I knew I was behind on a review (at least, in my mind I was behind), I will admit that the thought of … Continue reading
I’m not entirely sure, but I think this new Solace beer from Firestone Walker is breaking new ground for the Paso Robles brewery. (Recall they sent me two bottles to try.) The announcement on their website is calling it a “Summertime Fusion Wheat Beer” and there’s an interesting pull from … Continue reading
These two bottles arrived on Friday: Firestone Walker‘s new Solace, a “sort of unfiltered fusion of a Hefeweizen and a Belgian Saison.” It’s a seasonal release from Paso Robles that makes its first appearance in bottles. Should be an interesting beer to try.