Lars

KBS Maple Mackinac Fudge

Hasn’t changed since 2020. Still an excellent Founders desert stout.

World Wide Stout

Never better🍻at 18% ABV. This 2016 has a dark chocolate pallet that works perfectly with the high ABV.

Dirty Bastard (2020)

The Lars family Christmas. It can be difficult to coordinate. This dirty bastard scotch ale hails from 2020.  It is a incredibly smooth mellow fellow, perfect for a family Christmas libation.

Bottle Shop Series Highball Drifter

So glad I picked this up. Smooth full rich flavor just as advertised.

Belgian Twist

What a fine Belgium 🇧🇪 Well balanced banana/clove with smooth fruity flavors. Undetectable agave blended sweetness, rounds out this triple. It advertises to drink fresh. I think it’s a Belgian triple and it could spend a year in the cellar. We’ll see.

Curmudgeon’s Better Half (2018)

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.

Blushing Monk (2018)

Great tart raspberry! Has cellared extremely well. Perfect beer for a 64° day, pork chops on the pellet smoker, reverse sear on the gas grill.

Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) (2018)

Solid stout! The label says it. Everything a stout should be. 

KBS Hazelnut

Incredible hazelnut stout on the nose. Dominant flavor is hazelnut. There is a pronounced carbonated effervescence present that does not show up as over carbonation in the glass. One of the freshest KBS stout’s that I’ve had (1 mo) aging could help.

120 Minute IPA (2018)

what can I say about this icon of a beer. All the nuisances that make 120 min a magical elixir. My wife said looking into the cellar “OMG you have a year’s worth of beer!” Well we’re coming up on 5 years now.

Utopias Barrel - Aged World Wide Stout (2021)

This is a Utopian Village. Great heavyweight stout. Samuel Adams Utopia Barrels add significant aged flavoring. Malt -N- Carmel greeted me on the first sip. Followed by smooth chocolate vanilla roasty heavy backside. 

Backwoods Bastard (2017)

The oak Bourbon barrel really comes through for this scotch ale bastard.

Sweet Repute

Great wheat wine 2013 series 2015 bottling date🤷‍♂️What do I know: Oak Maple Bourbon Barrel aged, and all the flavors are appropriately represented. One of the best wheat wines I’ve had. Thanks Chris C. for treating this beer with the respect it Deserves

Raison D’Extra (2019)

How can you go wrong with brown sugar and raisins.

Olde School (2016)

I have saved this barley wine for special occasions. The special occasion yes I was in the mood for a good barley wine. It delivered.

Dankwood (2018)

I went to the cellar looked at this beer - to sweet, looking at that beer - not in the mood, and I came across this barrel aged red IPA. Light tan creamy head. Rusty red in color. Smooth barrel and little bit of oak, just enough hop. Very enjoyable.

Blushing Monk

This is a fruited beer that does not disappoint. 2018 just as I remember. I really do enjoy this raspberry wonderfully tart fruited beer. 🔴🍻

120 Minute IPA (2018)

A very unique IPA. A favorite. High powered, cellared three years, spruce hops throughout, like I said a very unique IPA.

Panther Cub (2021)

Nice Porter. The flavor on the backside is maple not overly sweet, very pleasant.

Barrel Runner (2018)

Bottle number three of four. This beer really hasn’t changed much. A floral fruitiness on the nose. It is still sweet, hoppy, rich and bright. Maybe it’s the rum barrel that has stabilized this IPA🤷‍♂️

Underground Mountain Brown (2019)

Sumatra coffee bittering. Cave aged in oak barrels. Thin smooth brown ale.

Marvelroast

Better than expected. I think I’ll have another🍻🍻

Campfire Amplifier

Great stout name. Roasty/smokey stout. Sweetness is very present dancing throughout like smoke from the campfire. Easy drinker and enjoyable.

Olde School (2016)

Raymond S. You were right. A little more time in the cellar turned the figs and dates Into smooth players.

Canadian Breakfast Stout (CBS) (2018)

Deep rich full Bodied stout. After two years in the cellar it is very much in its element. I enjoy it when the flavors work together. Maple, chocolate, Coffee, barrel, ABV all have mellowed and smoothed out Into an enjoyable stout. Worth the wait.

Olde School (2016)

This is a barley wine that would put hair on your chest. After four years in the cellar it is one smooth hombre. Kooringal Loosely means by the shore, and the name of the company that made my Wool cap in Australia. Both are smooth high-quality performers.

Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) (2019)

This would’ve been a good warm-up to my CBS. I was curious to taste them side-by-side. Thinner not quite as rich or roasty. Delicious by its own right.

Más Agave Grapefruit (2020)

The definition of ”Precioso”: Frosted horn, salted rim, beer frozen to a slush, Hot sunny day on the lake.