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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Martin van Opdorp

Heerlijk! 👌😋

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Jennifer B.

Where’s Mrs. Claus?

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Scott Rogers

More difficult to taste the maple syrup this time. On the sweet side but maybe with a bit of tang (molasses).

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Rob Colton

Boozy rich and smooth, with 2 years on it, YUM! Capping off the weekend of celebrating my better half 😁

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Brian Ashcraft

Too sweet. Dessert beer for sure.

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Sil de Weerd

Fenominaal, hele mooie barrel, niet te sterk niet te zwak. Goed zoetje. Echt een topper.

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Daniel Beerdbrother

Drygt 6 månader sen senast. Fortfarande vuxengott detta! Stor, värmande bourbonton runt massa söt malt, melass, maple. Sött och GOOOTTTT!!! 4,5

4.5

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Fro Do

Old Ale uit whiskeyvaten waar ook maple syrup in heeft gelegen. En dat is me daar toch iets moois geworden! Zachter dan een barleywine, veel vanille, kokos-achtig, hele zachte whiskey. Blijven toppers, die van Founders

4.5

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Ryan T.

Proper. Riich strong sticky and sweet with a high hitting but palatable abv. Fucking winner

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Michiel Andrea

Geniet0n.

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Pete

The maple is nice addition to this beer.

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Drunken Monk

Just like the description states. “Rich and utterly delicious.”

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jeff stormer

This is just pancakes what the heck 🥞🥞🥞

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Christina H.

Another winner!

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Sander Wiggers

Bam, deze hakt erin! Old Ale brewed with molasses and aged in Maple Syrup Bourbon barrels. Boozy 🤪

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Jeremy G

Thicker than I remember. Very smooth. Malty, lightly sweet, minimal barrel. Subtle.

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Ko Stolp

An explosion of different sweet flavours. The maple syrup bourbon barrels give perfect balanced sweetness.

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George Bentley

Chelsea 1-0 over Rennes at half time.

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Kaingorn

Sporo karmelu, syropu, melasy, dość treściwe, troche wanili i kokosa. Destylat trochę i alko czuć. Całościowo smaczne takie na cztery minus jak to founders zazwyczaj

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J C

Boozy molasses. 👍🏻

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Michael A

Soooo good!

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Karl K.

LN. This has greatly improved with age. Super sweet and smooth.

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Matt Jeronimus

👃- brown sugar, barrel notes 👅- burst of maple, brown sugar sweetness. Warm boozy oak mid to finish. Hint of toffee malt. Little heat on the finish. Body is rich and mouth-coating

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Linus Broström

Konstigt. Anna fick hur många årgångar som helst som förslag på streckkoden, jag fick bara en - rätt årgång! 😀

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Anna Wallman

Gott!

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Josh Hellcat

Fuck that's drinking good.

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Jurian Van der waal

Boozy maple syrup smaak komt goed terug. Blijft een enorme baas eigenlijk

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Kris Spoto

Still outstanding

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Gerald Parker

Bottled 8/2018. Old ale seems more prominent now. Nice sweet finish is still there.

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Matt Headley

Wow really nice bourbon and maple sweetness comes through. The old ale is mellowed to a good means to transport this nice barrel aging and still have some backbone.

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Shon

Oh man. This is awesome. Frothy head. Sweet up front with caramel. Boozy finish.

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Anthony Krull

Bottled 8/28/18. Somehow managed to delete the check in from yesterday, but here it is again

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J Smith

I can tell this is a quality beer, but I just don’t care for the sweetness and maple/molasses finish.

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James A.

As Dave B. said, thanks to someone for cellaring this. Still fantastic.

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Anthony Krull

Bottled 8/28/20

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Mike T.

Net te pannekoek zoet maar wel.lekker

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Scotty Ducati

Cellar raid

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Scott Rogers

Definately a Maple brew! More sweet than smooth.

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Matt B

Bottled 15 Aug 2018. Purchased 07 Nov 2018. Smooth, sweet, molasses, vanilla, toffee.

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Brandon Skluzacek

Great beer. This is what I believe an Old Ale should be. Visual - not terribly dark. Sweet, dark fruit - raisin forward. Maybe a bit boozy. Just a hint of bitterness - maybe from the molasses? Great beer. If the bitterness were a bit more subtle I'd go 5.

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Frank Corbey

Wat een pracht bier!

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Cavca

Szkoda ze jest tak cholernie słodkie, byłoby mega sztosem. 7,5/10 z minusem

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Addi nalin

Nachtrag !

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