Firestone Walker Velvet Merlin
Firestone Walker Velvet Merlin
Rated 3.516 by BeerPals
Brewed by Firestone Walker Brewing Company
Style: Oatmeal Stout
5.5% Alcohol by Volume
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As part of Firestone Walker’s new seasonal program Velvet Merlin will replace Solace, their summertime wheat fusion offering, on store shelves. Velvet Merlin is the perfect beer for the holidays, a nice comforting creamy beer with familiar flavors. “Anyone who has an attraction to coffee, any attraction to chocolate, will love this beer,” brew master Matt Brynildson said. Velvet Merlin is also partially blended with Merlin that has been aged in bourbon barrels for a year. The aging adds even more complexity to this very rich beer. The use of US grown Fuggles gives the perfect hop flavor to this exceptionally well-balanced beer. Velvet Merlin will be available on draft and in six packs along the West Coast in California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona and Nevada.
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Overall Rank | 4274 |
Overall Percentile | 96.1 |
Style Rank | 41 of 601 |
Style Percentile | 93.2 |
Lowest Score | 3.0 |
Highest Score | 4.6 |
Average Score | 3.590 |
Weighted Score | 3.516 |
Standard Deviation | 0.427 |
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21 Member Reviews
Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9
Typical light brown head, which collapses fairly quickly once in the glass. Black as sin body. Wonderful toasted oatmeal aroma. Body a little thicker than average. Nice smokey flavor which reminds me of Pacific Northwest Salmon being smoked over alder wood logs. Probably from the combo of dark chocolate and coffee. Will definitely have this again sometime.
Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8
12oz bottle from Plaza Liquors
Appearance: Clear dark brown, almost black, with a medium sized beige head and some lacing
Aroma: Smokey, roasted coffee and dark malts
Taste: Roasted coffee, dark malts and ashy A very nice and enjoyable.Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8
Draft at GABBF: Poured a brown black with tan head. Aroma was sweet with chocolate. Taste was a pleasant mix of cocoa and strong bitter coffee bean, smooth but dry finish.
Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8
Rated Nov. 2010. Courtesy of markwise. Pours deep dark murky muddy chocolate with thin tan head. The aroma is a musty rich mix of earthiness, roastiness and a touch of coffee. The taste begins with a sweet slickness rolling into dark roasted malts, a couple of short pulses of chocolate and then coffee around the edges. This achieves a pleasing and interesting profile as it heads from slick soft sweetness to more robust roastiness into the finish.
Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8
A huge thanks to SlowRunner77. This beer was stellar. Smooth as silk, deep malts - heave mocha. The color is dark brown and the palate slick. I loved this beer. The head retention was a bit short; however, a great overall beer. Thank you Chris!
Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7
Very dark brown with ruby highlights. Disappointing appearance for a 5.5% abv stout. Mild coffee aroma. Thin bodied for an oatmeal stout. Ok flavour of roasted malt, sweet coffee and milk chocolate. I'm a big fan of Firestone Walker but I think this is a bit of a miss.
Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7
Dark brown color with red highlights. Small, quickly disappearing tan head. Aromas of coffee and roasted malt with hints of chocolate (stronger) and toffee. Smell is what reminiscent of Guinness Extra Stout. Coffee and roasted malts lead the flavor profile with a touch of chocolate. Flavors intensify as it warms. A bit thin for a stout, which is a drawback for me. A pretty tasty stout, but not sure I will revisit when the 6 pack is gone. I used a bottle to braise a pot roast, which turned out delicious.
Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7
Pours a dark, deep near black, moderate cap of tan froth. Scent is dark, roasty with some ash and char, notes of spent coffee grinds, bitter cocoa, some leafy hops thrown in. Taste follows scent. Expected a bit more body and smoothness from style. Decent oatmeal stout, doesn't wow in any particular way.
Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7
Pours pretty brown, a bit murkey with tan head that doesn't stick around long. The aroma is strong, and mostly coffee but some roast notes as well. The mouthfeel was a bit thin, not what I was expecting. Flavor is burnt roast malts and coffee, not bad but not very impressive considering who made it.
Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7
Black with small brown foam head. Aroma is coffee, taste is coffee, chocolate. Aftertaste is lasting coffee. At beer tasting in Rockwell Bar & Grill(Houston 201310)