Review: Firestone Walker Cinnamon Dolce Nitro Stout

Firestone Walker makes loads of beers for chilly climate sipping, however their newest seasonal launch appears tailored particularly for the vacations. Let’s be trustworthy. Cinnamon Dolce Nitro Stout sounds extra like a Starbuck’s beverage than a beer, however apparently the invention of an area vanilla bean provider impressed them to go in that route for this 12 months’s seasonal stout. Per Firestone Walker Brewmaster Bryan Brynildson:

I found that there’s an area household that has been within the vanilla enterprise since 1918 beneath the banner of Prepare dinner Flavoring Firm. They function out of an unassuming constructing, however they’re famend far and broad for his or her vanilla beans and different flavorings and extracts. Vanilla is a taste amplifier, and the hot button is to make use of it in stability to reinforce the whole lot else that is occurring within the beer. Including a little bit of cinnamon makes for a very nice wintertime mixture that gives a balancing level with the chocolaty character of the stout.

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The bottom milk stout, made with Simpsons Particular Darkish caramel malt and roasted barley from Briess Malt Firm in Wisconsin, is conditioned on entire Madagascar vanilla beans and cinnamon sticks after which nitrogenated. Let’s pop the highest and see how a lot vacation cheer is packed into this one, we could?

It pours a wealthy, darkish chocolate hue with a pillowy, cocoa head. The aroma is dominated by freshly grated cinnamon, woody and spicy however nonetheless candy. A touch of darkish vanilla bean builds because it warms within the glass. The palate is mild with a gently creamy mouthfeel. Delicate notes of darkish chocolate, milky espresso, and snickerdoodle are recent and crisp. The end showcases caramel malt, vanilla extract, and a touch of cinnamon. Whereas the flavors are spectacular and most undoubtedly seasonal, I’d like them to be a bit greater. The carbonation fades too rapidly, as nicely (a casualty of the nitrogenation, maybe). Nonetheless, it’s a wonderfully gratifying, straightforward consuming winter stout. And I wager it goes nice with pie.

6% abv.

B+ / $12 per six-pack / firestonebeer.com

Firestone Walker Cinnamon Dolce Nitro Stout

$12

Ranking

8.5/10

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Drew Beard

Drew Beard is Assistant Editor and Social Media Supervisor for Drinkhacker. He has studied and written about beer, whisk(e)y, and different spirits since he first began consuming them, incomes a number of booze-related advantage badges alongside the way in which, together with Licensed Specialist in Spirits and Govt Bourbon Steward. Along with his work with Drinkhacker, Drew can be Spirits Editor for Santé Journal. A recovering Federal authorities worker, he’s completely satisfied to have lastly discovered a profession the place it’s acceptable to drink on the job.

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