Double Bastard Ale

Brewed by Stone Brewing Co.
Style: American Strong Ale
Escondido, California USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Dark red color. Strong apple tart flavor with a good balance of malt and plum. Wasn’t looking, but didn’t notice the high alcohol level in the taste. Interesting hop tastes.

UPDATED: APR 20, 2008 The Lure:
Candied citrus fruit, strawberries and lactic notes are pricked by alcohol beads. This is one healthy, bulky broad.

The Festivities:
Creamy malt and cranberry/strawberry-like fruitiness hug the bold citrusy hops and their resinous bitterness. Grainy hay and a little alcohol in the back spike the candied fruit and licorice. Always excellent, massively hoppy, but with a supporting malt that helps you tolerate it.

Transcendence:
Have you ever dropped a hop crop on top of a hop crop till the hop cops stopped you?...You can stop to shop you fop and pop up this top of Double Bastard, then most luscious hop crops will gallop to you...

Reddish mahogany, good head formation. Sweet creamy aroma blends well against a meaty smokiness and crystal malts. Crystal malt flavor, smooth vanilla creaminess, heavy alcohol latter half and fine hop bitter finish. Bitterness reinforces in the aftertaste.

Pours with a bubbly offwhite head. Mild carbonation. A get a fruity, malty flavor upfront with citrus and pine. The bittering is evident, yest smooth for such a big beer. Of course the malt and bittering go hand in hand. Definitely good. I’ll keep getting this one.

UPDATED: FEB 27, 2006 Cloudy light brown with huge dense off white head.Floral hops and toffee carmel malt nose.The malt beginning with alcohol heat that intensifies at it warms. Spicy. As strong as the alcohol is, it doesn’t strongly overpower.However this beer is overrated, especially on this site

A huge, yawling beer, expansive and complex. I think that this is good beer, but I’m afraid that this impression arose because there’s so much of everything, not necessarily because of inherent quality. The alcohol is certainly not well hidden in the aroma or flavor. Strong caramel and toffee flavors present. Big and brutish; almost punishing. What a bastard. I like it!

Crazy good stuff! So rich and definitely a rich, wonderful, fruity, long-lasting (dare I say beautiful??) brew. Will wake you up and smack you, but in a very good way. Definitely a wonderful Christmas treat.

This is by far one of the best ales, if not beers to have ever flowed over my tongue. My first taste last night consisted of a bottle aged approximately one year. The color was a beautiful amber with a few shades of brown. The taste was inmistakenly fruity and tangy. This beer is not for the faint of heart, but damn if this wasnt the best thing i have tasted in a long long time. Beer is a great thing...but when you find one that tastes as remarkable well and distinct as a double bastard...well, you’ve found yourself a staple!! RERATE 12/25/02: Aroma of peaches, and oranges, a nice dark orange color and minimal head. The taste massive with orange peel, peaches, nectarine, and a nice hoppy, bitter aftertaste with the alcohol becoming quite apparent as it nears room temperature. This drop in rating you may ask??? The comparison of an aged bottle of Double Bastard with a non-aged bottle and then the average of the two. Still an awesome ale worthy of the few.

Wonderful fruity nose, grapefruit, prunes and molasses with undertones of coffee. Intense rich flavor, a sipper for sure. Hops are present throughout with a lingering aftertaste. Warming alcohol all the way down. Very impressed again with the lads at Stone.

Awesome beer. Sweeter than I expected. Big caramel notes with some hoppy goodness. An excellent warmer upper.