French Toast Bastard

Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy

Backwoods Bastard gets the 4-star breakfast treatment. Our bourbon barrel-aged Scotch Ale is introduced to maple syrup, cinnamon, and sweet vanilla for a decadent brunch-inspired sipper. Breakfast for dinner, anyone?

ABV

11.1

Rating

4.24632

Rating count

9,151

Last updated

almost 5 years ago

 

Cedrik Nilsson

Inte min grej

1.25

over 1 year ago

 
1.0

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almost 5 years ago

 

Jenna Capobianco

Super butterscotch-y, really really sweet. Not my fave. Very artificial.

1.0

over 3 years ago

 

Sarah Sutter

Candle-like. Sorry

1.0

over 2 years ago

 

Bridget B.

SO MUCH FLAVOR, yes all caps is necessary. If you love French toast and want to drink it then this is the beer for you. It is well balanced flavors, there’s just too much flavor for me. Well done brewers!

1.0

over 2 years ago

 

Emark Jay

Foul. Drinking it for the buzz.

1.0

over 2 years ago

 

Bill F.

I now have diabetes.

1.0

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over 2 years ago

 

Will Lord

Tastes like a shot poured in a bottle of aunt jemimahs

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over 2 years ago

 

Dan

Absolutely disgusting.

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over 2 years ago

 

Randy Wilson

Flavorful wow

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over 2 years ago

 
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Nicholas Hill

yeah that’s bitter m8

1.0

over 2 years ago

 
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over 2 years ago

 

Matthew Brown

Too many things going on with the beer.

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over 2 years ago

 
1.0

over 2 years ago

 

Connor

Tastes like a bad beer with a ton of fake maple syrup poured in

1.0

over 2 years ago

 
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over 2 years ago

 

Jonny Green

Gross. Super disappointed in this one.

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over 2 years ago

 

Alicia Stetson

Hard for me since i cant stand maple syrup.

1.0

over 2 years ago

 

Matt Stennes

definitely tastes exactly like french toast (mainly in the aftertaste), but every sip of this made me wince so bad that i had to order a different beer

1.0

over 2 years ago

 

AJ Wash

This is so weird lmao

1.0

over 2 years ago

 

Lucas Paddock

It’s sweeter than maple syrup. Smells delicious but not something I would drink again. - @ Founders in Grand Rapids. Incredible spot. Rating my be lower due to buyers remorse. So many great beers and this counted as 2. 11.% ABV!!

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John Bell

Terrible. Usually founders can pull off the breakfast flavors but this is a miss to me.

1.0

over 1 year ago

 

Chris Mann

Knew I was going to hate the maple syrup flavor and did

1.0

over 1 year ago

 

Stacy Knight

Wow, waaaaay too much maple for me. Very very sweet. Like drinking syrup.

1.0

over 1 year ago

 

Joanne Levengood

An abomination of beer

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over 1 year ago

 
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Dexter

Yuck

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over 1 year ago

 
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0.75

over 2 years ago

 

Pete

Can’t taste the Ale at all. French toast juice. Good french toast flavor, but where’s the Ale?

0.75

over 2 years ago

 

Emily Abraham

Way too sweet And syrup-y.

0.75

over 2 years ago

 
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over 2 years ago

 
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over 2 years ago

 
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almost 2 years ago

 
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over 1 year ago

 
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over 1 year ago

 

Shaun Adams

Holy whow. No trace of barrel or base beer just Starbucks syrup.

0.75

over 1 year ago

 

Bill

Serious downgrade form backwoods...

0.5

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over 4 years ago

 

Mads Kongstad Laugesen

Slightly sour somehow... Not sure if there's pipecleaner left in this draft beer or if it is meant to taste like this.

0.5

almost 3 years ago

 
0.5

over 2 years ago

 

Ken

too much cinnamon and maple for me

0.5

over 2 years ago

 

Cordless Microwaves

I’m not liking this / I hope it’s just my pairing / Buffalo chicken

0.5

over 2 years ago

 

Tim Hinski

Garbage

0.5

over 2 years ago

 

John Peterson

Way too sweet

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over 2 years ago

 

Mike Bell

Smells just like French toast and molasses. Nuts! OMG it’s so sweet and I think I’m drinking syrup and there are notes of licorice before the maple overwhelms you and you drown in a vat of artificial vanilla flavor ewwwww I might throw up

0.5

over 2 years ago

 

Christopher Mowder

Backwoods Bastard is one of my very favorite beers ever. French Toast Bastard ... was not. Tastes like drinking maple syrup French toast, so success there I guess. Not for me.

0.5

over 2 years ago

 

Dan Pearl

Way too sweet

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over 2 years ago

 

Brett Bremer

Ewww. Backwoods Bastard is at the top of the list of my favorite beers. To be fair, that’s what the tap said. The french toast was a surprise. Someone dripped a vanilla candle into my beer : (

0.5

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over 2 years ago

 

Ben Haner

Yep, vanilla and alcohol

0.5

over 2 years ago

 
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over 2 years ago

 
0.5

about 2 years ago

 

David Wedwick

Emasculating.

0.5

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almost 2 years ago

 

Ice Smith

Tastes like a burnt marshmallow

0.5

almost 2 years ago

 
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over 1 year ago

 

joe lucas

What's extremely sweet for my taste I'm sure someone will like it. And I do to my head to the brewery for coming up with a new idea. Just wasn't something for me. But I do highly recommend founders brewing. They make some truly amazing beer.

0.5

over 1 year ago

 

Phillip Bagwell

Over sweet bourbon disaster

0.5

over 1 year ago

 

Patrick Graham

Vile, might as well drink Hennessey

0.5

over 1 year ago

 
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Eddy

Fuck Founders. Shitty beer, shitty brewery

0.25

over 4 years ago

 

Eric McHugh

I didn't want a glass of Mrs. Butterworth, thank you.

0.25

over 4 years ago

 
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over 2 years ago

 

Jon Newberry

A combination of Three flavors not made for a Scottish ale are present. Cinnamon, maple, and vanilla. I was really hoping they would work together. They don’t. Mix these flavors on waffles. Not in an ale.

0.25

over 2 years ago

 
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over 2 years ago

 

kendall concini

Heavily carbonated smells sweeter than it is

0.25

over 2 years ago

 

Dan

😶

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over 2 years ago

 

David Ely

Absolutely horrible! Sickly sweet syrup and cinnamon. They ruined a perfectly good Backwards Bastard to make this! 🤮

0.25

over 2 years ago

 

Don Armstrong

This could be the worst beer ever. One sip and it went down the drain. Stop being cute and just go back to making good beer

0.25

over 2 years ago

 

Jessica Vogel

Way to sweet made me feel ew

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over 2 years ago

 
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over 2 years ago

 

carlos zamora

Yea I tried but after 2 sips i tossed it.

0.25

over 2 years ago

 
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over 2 years ago

 

Dae

This was a Nasty Syrupy Bastard.

0.25

over 1 year ago

 

Jeff Spraker

Well it a beer maybe

0.25

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over 1 year ago

 
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over 1 year ago

 

Drea Dersch

Founders Breakfast Stout is my favorite beer, and french toast is my favorite breakfast food so I had high hopes for this. It smells and tastes just like French toast and I realized after the first sip that French toast should not be a liquid.

0.25

over 1 year ago

 
0.25

over 1 year ago