Curmudgeon's Better Half

Old Ale

Curmudgeon is an old ale brewed with molasses and aged on oak; it becomes Better Half after aging—for 254 days—in bourbon barrels that have more recently been aging Michigan maple syrup. As a result, Curmudgeon’s Better Half is a bit sweeter than her miserly counterpart.

ABV

12.7

Rating

4.12707

Rating count

48,604

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Robert W.

Great maple on the nose, Caramely warmth with some notes of brown sugar and a subtle dryness at the end. Astoundingly smooth for being almost 13%. One pint will get you there if you're not careful. Reminds me of a little beer I had called Rochefort 10.

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Mike Brown

This is good. Stronger alcohol content but not overpowering. Sweet maple flavors pushes it over the finish line.

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Sara Taggart

Savage Race celebration for team “Better Late Than Never”!

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Beer C.

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Jackie Von Panda

The maple in this stands out. So freaking good. Great beer.

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Oleg K.

Ретро

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Jayme

The most recent year but too lazy to check the bottle.

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Pierre W.

Nice creamy head. Looks like a Stout, Untappd calls it an old ale. Sweet, molasses and maple, up front malt. Has a nice oomph. Nice mouthful of flavors that don’t fade. 7/10 on the hairy scale. Very tasty.

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Tom L.

Delightful with the A/C blasting

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Thomas Sundström

Sweet maple and molasses throughout, and it hides the alcohol almost completely. Interesting composition

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Pablo S.

Last night

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StanMS S.

Brown caramel, bourbon, maple syrup, aged malt.

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Alex K

‘18. it’s still got it. syrupy barrely grapes.

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Bobby Semmler

DAMN. DAAMN BOY. DAAAMN BOYY HE THICC.

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Andreas C.

Best before Aug -19 but I'm pretty sure this one was better than the other one that I had after the purchase. Pretty awsome strong old ale but almost to sweet.

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Art C.

Sweet but not that sweet. Super smooth and awful tasty. 12.7% ABV

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Kirsten Haverberg

This will never not be good.

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Choonleng L.

This was easily the best founders I had. And founders does very good stuff.

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Erin DJ

Ages well

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Jim Jackson

Out of the cellar from 2018, great malty molasses with a bit of bourbon!

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Joy H.

Solid

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Adam Bockelman

Very sweet

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Geir F

Fint fatpreg og rikelig med sødme. Forøvrig toner av brunt sukker og lønnesirup.

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David Houghton

2018 Vintage- It turns out, that anything Founders Barrel Ages comes out beautifully. Big chewy mouthful, with maple sweetness rounding out a huge malty body. This is one of the best old ales I have had.

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Dave

3 yrs old and still very smooth. Some tobacco, a bit of leather, very tannic but also sweet like... butterscotch? Not in a bad way... really good sipper tonight #BarrelAgedSundays

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Grant A.

2018. Have one more, time to crack that one too. Not getting any better with time.

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Tim Martzall

Wow. That’s good and different.

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