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

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Steve Kruger

If drinking a bottle of straight maple syrup is to your liking, this one’s for you.

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GTRAIN

Oh wow, literally liquid French toast

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BD

Fun to share. Probably too intense to drink one solo. Smells and tastes just like carrot cake

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Merrick Wilson

So good, thanks, Christina

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Douglas Terborg

This is a decent beer, and brings in some of the French Toast flavor, but I prefer the straight Backwoods Bastard. For a French Toast flavor I’d look at Roak’s French Toast Devil Dog or its BA big brother.

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Miranda S

Dangerously smooth holy fuck

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Beth Bussiere

Advent beer #6. I loved this one. Right out of the bottle I could smell a sweet, Carmel or butterscotch aroma. Loved the taste of cinnamon:). My favorite so far :)

4.0

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Chris Mazzola

Blind tasting rated a 4 but had I known what this was, I likely would have rated it higher. :P I called it creme brule (and likely southern tier) but french toast works for me. Yum! Most interesting so far in our December beers.

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Ryan DeArmond

Oh that’s nice

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Alex Sperling

Rich and warming, sweet and filling

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Brian S

First impression was caramel and bourbon. Strong, sweet, and busy. All good flavors working together.

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Andy Vongphachanh

Delicious

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Garret Gherardini

It only took me 4 years to finally find this again and god golly miss Molly it has been a long fuckin time since I’ve had a beer this smackin

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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

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Damien Perry

Definitely delicious

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Toxic Pineapple

Another solid Founders barrel aged beer. However, the French toast is a little too roasty for my taste. My friends loved it!

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James M

I want some f*ckin’ franch toast!

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Steve White

I love this beer and they gave it in pint glasses but had no idea they were $16 a piece. #holypoop

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chris carrigan

WOW !!!

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Tom McKnight

PS#06: Holy crap this was good! I’m often not a fan of maple in beer, but this was magnificent.

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Nick Hindes

Enjoying some Founders while watching Home Alone 2.

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Dan Wilson

French toast in a bottle! It's a bit much, to be honest, especially the first sip. And definitely seems sweeter than it needs to be. Still, it's fun and definitely evokes the name.

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matt hill

This is good, but overly maple dominant

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scott shoemaker

Amazing beer. Heavy flavors of cinnamon and vanilla overtake the bourbon flavor of backwoods bastard. I prefer the original, but this one is still delicious.

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Tony LasCola

All adjuncts present and poppin! I enjoy sweet pastry beers, but this is a tad too sweet even for me. That said, still delicious. A cool take on a classic BA wee heavy.

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Craig Stone

Beer advent calendar day 6. Too sweet at first but gets really good as it warms up.

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Paul S

The maple smell and flavor, while strong, seemed kind of artificial and off putting to me for some reason. Had to pair this with some delicious cinnamon pretzels (thanks Denny) to make it through.

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Greg J.

Wow, I do appreciate the proprietor of E Helena Man Store introducing me to this superb, multi-faceted beer.

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Pansy

Nose knocks you back. Thankfully the heavy sweetness is cut with a mild bitterness. I think it'll be cool to see how this one ages.

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Dave Tucker

Pretty good... definitely took a sip and thought french toast. Very smooth and delicious. Hard to drink the whole bottle tho.

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Colin Daniels

This is pretty great. Nice caramel and bourbon notes following almost immediately by the cinnamon and vanilla back end.

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Rick Fitch

French toast crunch with chocolate milk

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Robert Duncan

The maple and cinnamon take over and become annoying. Sounds like it ought to be great, but it doesn't work for me, just seems harshly sweet.

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