Founders Brewing Co. Backwoods Bastard

Backwoods Bastard

 

Founders Brewing Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Regular
Score
7.90
ABV: 11.0% IBU: 50 Ticks: 113
Bourbon Barrel-Aged Scotch Ale

Expect lovely, warm smells of single malt scotch, oaky bourbon barrels, smoke, sweet caramel and roasted malts, a bit of earthy spice and a scintilla of dark fruit. It’s a kick-back sipper made to excite the palate.

Distribution Note: Now available year-round beginning April of 2018.
 

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8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

MMmmmm, baby, baby - can’t get enough of your beer babe. Luxuriant. Poured with fine creamy, light tan head and good lace. Color is cured cherry wood. Aroma is vanilla, sweet cherries, malt, caramel, and brandy. Flavor is sweet, a hint of roastiness, Texture is velvety with fine carbonation. Some alcohol in the finish which is fairly long and sweet with a tinge of bitterness at the very end. Not a session although an excellent beer.

Tried from Bottle at Bodega Brew Pub, Inc. on 11 Apr 2023 at 03:24


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Tried from Draft on 13 Apr 2022 at 21:08

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6

Tried from Draft on 13 Apr 2022 at 21:03

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8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle from Gedeelde Vreugde. Bottled: 22/10/2018. Hazy dark brown, small, foamy, tan head. Aroma of pear syrup, date paste, candied fig, toffee, wet wood, bourbon, marmalade, ripe plum. Taste has very sweet date, plum & raisin soaked in rum, stewed pear somewhere, very thick toffee & molasses maltiness; bit toasty, herbal too for the slightest balance. Woody, heavy caramelly finish, sugar-coated dried fruits and accent of tobacco leaves induced by subtle herbal hops before heating bourbon alcohol tops it all off. Full body, syrupy texture, soft carbonation. The ultimate sipper; sweetness prevails but that's the point, of course...

Tried from Bottle on 24 May 2021 at 15:53

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7

Smak > aromat.

Tried at Melina u Krzyśka on 06 Jan 2021 at 16:02

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7

2017. Hujowo sie starzeje

Tried on 02 Jan 2021 at 19:57

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8.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

12 oz bottle, dates 9/26/16, poured dark reddish brown with a trace of beige foam. Medium body. Scotch and bourbon with dark fruits aroma. Strong Scotch and raisin notes in the taste, with a smooth alcohol finish.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Dec 2020 at 01:33

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7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Sample, black/dark beer, no head, aroma is bourbon, oak, whisky, smoke, dark fruit, raisins. Taste is the same, sweet, bourbon, alcohol, nice

Tried on 07 Nov 2020 at 18:07

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7.5

@ 2017

Tried on 17 Oct 2020 at 15:36

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