Firestone Walker XVII

nom nom nom

 

This will be a nice birthday present to myself. Love the drop date.

 

Any idea what the blend is?

 

oh man, I think it moved....

 

I hope lots of helldorado!

 

Sweet. I'm going to San Francisco the 8th for my honeymoon. Definitely going to seek it out.

 

This is going nationwide?

 

Wherever there is FW distro, yes. It's usually pretty abundant (at least in MA). The past 2 blends are amazing, can't wait for this one.

 

Nice!! Anyone have a XVI to trade so I can do a 3 year vertical? Have they announced what the blend is this year?

 

I had XV and XVI in same tasting, but I preferred XV. Honestly It's probably cuz its aged. Amazingness. Cant wait for XVII

 

FW 14th may be the best beer I've had...no pressure FW 17th

 

Might just save all my Oct beer money for Nov

 

Oh Firestone Walker, I've just started to relax after chasing down Velvet Merkin and here you go again

 

We're beer geeks, there is always a new release to chase after. And drinking VM right now makes me want to chase down more of it!

 

for 20 they should make all the previous 20 batches and then blend them??? eh???

 

Nope. But I won't elaborate past that.

 

Still never had an anniversary beer

 

I have had only XVI, but it is the best beer I have had so far. I will say that it was a revelation. I will say that the night that I had it was amazing. It was a perfect confluence of events. I can just remember the smell and just getting giddy at tasting it. This is far and few between, outside of really good hoppy beers. I try to tell people about it, but they don't understand the blend aspect. Once I heard about how it was made I had to try it. It is likely the most complex thing I have ever tasted. Sadly, it was before I reviewed beers and it was probably my first phenomenal beer. I really want to try XV, since it is the only reasonable one there is of getting.

 

I'd love to try one and I'll be trying very hard to get ahold of some this year. FW special releases go very quickly in MA, especially recently (it doesn't help that we get so few of them - it makes me angry when I hear stories about Parabola sitting on shelves in some markets while it sold out here in a week). All of their barrel aged beers are utterly spectacular; I can only imagine what an anniversary tastes like