Double Bastard Ale - Bourbon Barrel Aged - Stone Brewing Co.

womencantsail

California

3.8/5  rDev -11%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

Bottle shared by Tim. Thanks!

Copper in color with a small off-white head. Huge booze/bourbon aroma on this. Lots of dark fruit, wood, vanilla, and sugar aromas as well. But mostly booze. Things are a touch more mellow on the palate, but still fairly heavy on the bourbon. Lots of vanilla, dark fruit, nuts, and brown sugar and caramel. Really an intense aroma and flavor to this, hopefully it mellows out a bit.

Serving type: bottle

08-04-2012 03:59:58 | More by womencantsail

UCLABrewN84

California

3.9/5  rDev -8.7%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Bottle pour courtesy of AndresR at Woodshop 7 held at Beachwood BBQ & Brewing in Long Beach, CA.

2009 vintage.

Pours a clear dark brown with a foamy khaki head that settles to a film on top of the beer. Small dots of lace slowly drip into the remaining beer on the drink down. Smell is of malt, brown sugar, caramel, bourbon, wood, and vanilla. Taste is much the same with an alcohol kick and a slight hop flavor on the finish. There is a fairly mild bitterness on the palate with each sip. This beer has a lower level of carbonation with a slightly crisp and medium bodied mouthfeel. Overall, this is a good beer that is tasty and seems to have benefitted from a barrel aging treatment.

Serving type: bottle

07-24-2012 01:20:42 | More by UCLABrewN84

HopHead84

California

3.68/5  rDev -13.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

6/16/2012

Big thanks for sharing.

A: Deep red with a big beige head.

S: Prominent caramel and bready notes blend with pine, earth, and some citrus. Strong bourbon with lots of booze and a little vanilla.

T: Big and boozy with big bourbon notes. Again, very boozy. Lots of oak and caramel with an insistent bitterness. It's piney with some grapefruit. Tastes like 15% ABV.

M: Upper medium body with upper medium carbonation.

Overall: Solid but the alcohol is stinging. At $25 I'd definitely pass on this.

Serving type: bottle

06-18-2012 17:04:13 | More by HopHead84

FosterJM

California

4.03/5  rDev -5.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

1355th Review on BA
Bottle to CCB Snifter
500ml C/C

Thanks to Smarcoly for opening this one

App- Pours out like a brandy meets a bourbon. A bit of a brown, gold, red mixture in the glass. A bit thinner than a normal double bastard. A small one finger quick receding head was there and gone. Nice lacing on the glass with a little bit of swirl on top.

Smell- Really was a nice smelling beer, but seemed a bit lacking in the bourbon department. More sweet than I expected. A good solid malt base with just touches of bourbon and vanilla to compliment the base beer.

Taste- It was nice. It was a smaller version than I was hoping was going to come out and be on par with BART. The barrel added some flavors but just too little for me. A bit sweeter on the flavor profile as was the case with the nose. A touch of vanilla added to the layering but needed more punch from the bourbon.

Mouth- A bit of a thinner medium body with a thinner medium carbonation. Semi creamy with a good residual sweet flavor. A little bourbon, a little vanilla. Much more malts.

Drink- Tasty, well crafted, layered, but...I wanted more. A bit too thin and lacking in certain aspects of this one. I'd love another bottle to sit on but probably wont happen.

Serving type: bottle

06-17-2012 00:33:10 | More by FosterJM

jegross2

Illinois

3.38/5  rDev -20.8%
look: 3 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 3.25

Reviewing the Bourbon Barrel Aged 2009 Double Bastard Ale from the Quingenti Millitre Series from Stone Brewing Company out of Escondido, California.

Score: 82

Bottle is from the June 2012 release. Served in a snifter glass and enjoyed on 01/31/13.

Appearance: Chestnut brown in color with a finger of fizzy beige head that gradually settles to a thin layer atop the glass. Has a very traditional old ale look, but with a lot more head than expected off the pour. Good lacing and retention. Some serious floaties settle onto the bottom half of the glass. 3/5

Smell: Caramel, molasses, fig, sweet raisin, and sweet, faintly desserty, oaky vanilla. Lots of malt with a dark fruit twist. Bourbon complexities are very noticeable on the nose. Faint milk chocolate in the background. Some “leather belt” smell towards the end of a whiff too. Light alcohol esters present. There is a little brown sugar and a “fizziness” in the nose as the beer warms up. 4.25/5

Taste: Lots of caramel, then lesser quantums of brown sugar and fizzy vanilla. Finish is oddly bitter. There is some dark fruit too. 3.5/5

Mouthfeel: Too thin and over-carbonated. Dry, and slightly bitter on finish. 1.5/5

Overall: Although the nose was promising, the favors are too light, less complex and the mouthfeel kills the beer. Skip this one.

Cost: $20 for a 500 ml bottle.

Serving type: bottle

02-28-2013 17:04:25 | More by jegross2

kscaldef

Oregon

3.95/5  rDev -7.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Pours ruddy red and slightly cloudy. A small head quickly recedes. Lots of pineapple on the nose. Taste balances toasted malts, more pineapple, and strong hop bitterness. Really surprised how much pineapple there is in this, which I don't remember from standard Double Bastard. Finishes very dry and bitter with respectable carbonation.

Serving type: bottle

12-27-2012 21:35:10 | More by kscaldef

Vanlingleipa

California

4.65/5  rDev +8.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5

This is the 2009 Quingenti Millitre Bourbon double bastard 500 ml released 6/12

Something about Stone db - I rarely enjoy it fresh, but put a couple of years under its belt and WOW. So I knew the key to this one for me would be how well the bourbon aging meshed with those super strong malt characteristics they brew into this beer.

As it turned out with BA db, the bourbon/malt flavor blend is excellent, and when the alcohol fades just a bit more in another 6-12 months, this one will be killer.

Poured into a snifter amber/dark with a thinnish head. Warm aromas of bourbon, bit of hops and maltiness present.

The bourbon is medium strong - read slight alcohol burn - but I'd say in another year will be toned down perfectly. Circling July 4 on the calendar for my 2nd bottle. For now, it's still very tasty; the sweetness of the bourbon blending very well with the extra malty punch they brew into 2xbastard...plus a slight dark fruitiness that I associate with barleywines. After I swallowed and let the initial taste melt in my mouth, the secondary flavors, vanilla, toffee, caramel, lingered nicely.

Can't wait till next year to open that other bottle.

Serving type: bottle

06-25-2012 17:19:12 | More by Vanlingleipa

dionito

Washington

4.59/5  rDev +7.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

2010 edition (edition might not be the right word here, but hey, what can I do?)

Served on tap to a 10/12 oz cup, nothing special (except the beer).

All that I do not like in Double Bastard is gone here, and what I like in Double Bastard is still here, multiplied.

A: Dark brown/redish, cloudy, with a thin head that dissipates quickly leaving almost no lacing.

S: malt, malt, malt, sweet awesome malty beer. Vanilla, bourbon, dark fruit, more malt, more booze, sweet goodness. Some hops somewhere, paying a lot of attention. Those super obvious hops in double bastard are almost gone here.

T: slight bitterness from the almost disappeared hops up front, and then it hits you all at once. Similar to the aroma. Tons of malt, vanilla, bourbon, fruits, sweetness, dark sugars, back to vanilla. Super complex beer. Amazing!

M: thick as expected, low carbonation, full body. Feels good and warm in the mouth.

O: A-W-E-S-O-M-E

I'm so looking forward to going to San Diego and our reservation in the Stone Bistro next weekend!

Serving type: on-tap

05-18-2013 03:12:04 | More by dionito

fearbeer0506

3.83/5  rDev -10.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Had it on tap at Mew's Tavern in Wakefield, RI for my birthday. It was a bit hoppy for my taste, however, it was a good beer. It started strong with hops, the middle was a mix of malts, and the finish was a bit spicy. All in all I would have it again.

Serving type: on-tap

01-11-2013 04:00:39 | More by fearbeer0506