Founders Backwoods Bastard - Founders Brewing Company

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rAvg: 4.32
pDev: 11.34%
Reviews: 1251
Hads: 1757

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Brewed by:
Founders Brewing Company

Michigan, United States

Style | ABV
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy | 10.20% ABV

Availability: Fall. bottle (1146), on-tap (96), growler (8), cask (1).

Notes:
Scotch Ale aged in bourbon barrels.

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Reviews by SkeeterBoganski:

SkeeterBoganski

Colorado

4.05/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 3 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Thanks to st9647v3 in a recent trade; poured in to a tulip pint

A - pours a murky caramel/mahogany brown; had to incite the head with an aggressive push on the pour; no carbonation

S - it's very sweet to me, like sugar cane; notes of caramel, vanilla, bourbon; additional notes of candied cherries; oak and earth

T - busy; the bourbon is heavy in this; cherries and plums; booze; vanilla; the alcohol heat is all over this; some oak; dearlordinheaven more booze

M - the heat hits the front and back of the tongue and you can feel the burn all the way down the throat; it's oddly really only medium bodied; minimal carbonation; some chewy maltiness

O - I gotta say, I was not expecting what I received in taste based on what I noted on the nose; how does a sweet, sugary odor have so much alcohol punch; this is a rare beer that drinks hotter than it lists as an abv; kind of a perfect sipping beer for a day where I had no heat with temps in the teens and 4 inches of snow. Backwoods as f***.

Serving type: bottle

12-19-2012 23:44:04 | More by SkeeterBoganski

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PlayitAgain

New York

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05-20-2013 02:57:47 | More by PlayitAgain

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Florida

4.25/5 rDev -1.6%

05-19-2013 22:40:46 | More by JReites

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Ohio

4.75/5 rDev +10%

05-19-2013 20:39:26 | More by TreeBeard

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4.5/5 rDev +4.2%

05-19-2013 18:34:26 | More by everettsbeerguy

Alextricity

Michigan

4.05/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

On-tap at the World Expo of Beer in Frankenmuth, Michigan.

Appearance: Darkness. A few bubbles on top, no lacing, and just a pitch black beer -- about what I expected this beer to look like.

Smell: Huge scotch and oak aromas... maybe some dark sort of chocolate malt notes, but mainly oaky scotch.

Taste: A couple people I was with claimed it tasted like liquid smoke and dumped it out, but I quite enjoyed this one -- it tastes almost exactly like it smells. It drinks almost like straight scotch with some warming on the finish, but there isn't a HUGE alcohol sort of flavor. The finish is also woody with some dark chocolate and malt to round it all out.

Quite good, and I think it's awesome that Founders chose to put some truly great stuff on-tap at the World Expo of Beer.

Serving type: on-tap

05-19-2013 17:00:21 | More by Alextricity