Backwoods Bastard

Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy

Expect lovely, warm smells of single malt scotch, oaky bourbon barrels, smoke, sweet caramel and roasted malts, a bit of earthy spice and a scintilla of dark fruit. It’s a kick-back sipper made to excite the palate. Distribution Note: Now available year-round beginning April of 2018.

ABV

11.0

Rating

4.111

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Mojo

6 year old bottle…something inspired me to pop this. Going to try and down this.

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Bradley Lucido

Taste of chocolate covered cherries, Full body yet not too thick. Top tier for sure.

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Nick T.

Very strong

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Mitch Imler

Better out of a glass

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Matt Heiss

How can you not have a beer outside when it’s 69 degrees????

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Robert G.

Beautiful beer, sweet but not cloying, deceptively strong

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craig boas

Drank a 2021. Woof. Not for me.

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JT E

Good bones of a scotch ale plus lots of complexities from the barrel aging. A little overly sweet (plum?) for me but tolerable. The smokey darkness if great.

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Eddie Campbell

Been a while since we had a busy day at work like today I know I look just like this fellow when I walked out

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Gunnar Karels

Kraftfull men mjuk och tung. Lång fin eftersmak med ordentligt inslag av ekfat och bourbon. Väldigt gott och trevligt. 👍🏻🍺

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Rolf Sievert

Hmm... Kokosfett och upplevelsen är lite mintig. SÖT. Choklad, spritig.

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axel pennsater

Smaskigt

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Steve Charles

Bit of a beast

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Magnus Ohlin

Mkt bra, som vanligt 🤷‍♂️

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Skip

I have been called one on numerous occasions 🙃😎 Cheers 🍻🍻🍻🍻

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Ashley G.

6 years later!

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Jon Smith

Woof. Still kicks. Need to let these sit for a year or two in the basement

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Franco Gigliotti

Really fantastic. Lots of chocolate and bourbon flavour, sweet and velvety

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