Curmudgeon’s Better Half (2018)

Old Ale

What tames an old ale like Curmudgeon? The tender embrace of oak and sweet maple, that’s what. The result is Curmudgeon’s Better Half, a harmonious matrimony of our deceptively smooth old ale brewed with molasses and time spent aging in bourbon barrels that have previously held maple syrup. Because all counterparts should be sweet, rich and utterly delicious.

ABV

12.7

Rating

4.16551

Rating count

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Anne K

Cellar pull. Smooth, sweet caramel and worth the wait.

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RV

Tonight with dinner (venison steaks). Good, nice sweetness.

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David

Jamming to Phish tonight

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Denver Meredith

Not bad after 3 years of aging!

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Nate Doyle

Fell off a bit. #Drinkthecellar

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Sally Bray

Sweet and strong. Maple syrup tang.

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Johnmay

Held up really well.

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Todd Moore

Thanks Sara! Brew day!

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Yvonnda H.

Awesome flavor!

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Tom L.

Vintage

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Chris Karstaedt

From Grand Rapids, Michigan

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Tariem Burroughs

Aged very well

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Porter

Held up really well. Raisin molasses barrel spice like cinnamon tannin. Sweet and boozy but not too hot.

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Reggie

@s incoming.

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Pat and Amy

From yesterday. Great mix of malts and bourbon flavors!

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Nils-Jostein H.

Barrel-aged, whiskeyduft og smak av lønnesirup. Gode greier!

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Justin

Aged nicely. Maple flavor still strong

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Zak F

Sweet sweet booze

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Eric Tagg

FLN / This held up great and that developed very nicely!

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Kirill Belikov

Подсох. Охмеленный олд эль. На барлик ещё не похож. Земляника.

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Gabriel Santacroce

Boozy and woody. Olde strong ale breakfast edition. Burns the tongue though, almost like Wasabi. Mouth taste like maple mouth wash afterwards.

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J T.

One of the last from the original stash. Four years did this gal some good. Plenty of brown sugar glory left resting under that aged grace.

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Ric Raices

Still good. Not as sweet

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Callum White

Bottled 05/08/18

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Kurt Miller

Still delicious!! First beer of St. Patrick's day!! Heading to the parade!

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Don Kuipers

Top! Mooi stroperig zoetje, licht moutig, caramellig

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Karl Blessing

Sweet Strong, a bit thin but with toffee and vanilla riding the alcohol burn.

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Adam Christiansen

Been sitting on this 2018

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Sean Jones

Astronomy Bottleshare

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Chris V.

Astronomy Aleworks bottle share. Thanks Sean J.! I think it's probably life-like.

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Craig Quesnell

Mostly just a bourbon barreled old ale at this point, not much (if any) maple to it. With these home-baked Spunkmeyers though, *way* better than milk.

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