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

27,509

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Kevin de Rijk

Lovely!

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Don Kuipers

Top! Mooi stroperig zoetje, licht moutig, caramellig

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Jeff Eckert

Has held up well. Still sweet and inviting with lots of barrel.

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Jameson Walker

Amazing. Excellent balance of oak and maple. Nice little booziness on the back.

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Jeremy Rase

Has held up pretty well. Sweet, delicious. Still a little boozy, but smooth. Molasses lingers

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Karl Blessing

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

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Ry B

Amazing.

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Ken Ward

Dated 8/20/18

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Mark Pagano

Amazing. Even better a year later in 2022. I think this is my last one.

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Hoops Hunt

In my book, truly one of the best brews of all time! Molasses, maple syrup, and bourbon, what’s not like? To top it off, it’s been masterfully blended to perfection!

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Lars

The Brewmaster at founders brewing Company must be extremely proud of this. I enjoyed this freshly bottled and I’m enjoying it after four years bottle aged in the cellar.

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Adam Christiansen

Been sitting on this 2018

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Steve M.

Four years old and just totally effin' delicious! An old ale brewed with molasses and aged in bourbon barrels that once held maple syrup. 12.7% of a great aged brew IMO.

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scott brown

Finishing maple 🍁syrup today in the snow 🥶 upnorth cheers with a maple brew to take the chill off love this old ale 🍺

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Seppe Poelmans

08.13.2018 Parijs-Roubaix 18°C

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Tasty as always. Holding up well.

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Chris V.

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

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Sean Jones

Astronomy Bottleshare

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Brian Franklin

Not bad after sitting

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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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Keith S

Did not age that well.

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John Knorr

Thank you, Dave! Excellent!!

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Ryan M.

Aged for a while… this is amazing.

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Brent S.

it aged well…

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Tyler Gilbert

Really good and smooth, but a little sweet. A great sipper though.

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Bryan F

Aged nicely.

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Scott Hanni

Super smooth and maple finish. Bottle date: 8-20-18.

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Malin Bäck

Söt. Väldigt söt. Mogna frukter, viss spritighet som ger med sig rätt snabbt.

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