Founders Curmudgeon Old Ale

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: Old Ale
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Clear brown body. This is one malty SOB. Has a big sweet, fruity aroma. Caramel, brown sugar, coffee cake with some port-like alcohol (probably the barrel) on top. The sweetness doesn’t have the sharp caramelized notes of brown sugar or molasses but rather retains their sweet elements and therefore is very smooth and silky with the oily alcohol pooled on top. The same big malts are in the body but it’s marred by pine needle gin. Caramel, chocolate and coffee cake start the flavor with pine needles, alcohol, and unripe apples finishing it off. Good mouthfeel. I’d enjoy the beer more if the alcohol wasn’t so gin-like.

Bottle. Bit hazy amber body with a medium off white head. Barley, sweet fruit, light alcohol, brown sugar, prune and tonsof caramel in aroma. Very complex. The flavour is also complex and contains notes of hops, lots of caramel, dried fruit, sweet malt, sweet barley and alcohol. Creamy texture. Other than the alcohol is very profound I love it.

bottle from Steve (punkrkr27) Thanks!! 2006 bottle. Pours out light red / dark orange. Not much of a head. Smells sweet, strong flavors of bourbon, and fruity. Taste is overwhelming of whiskey at first, then it slowly subsides. After the initial disgust of bourbon (i cant drink it much after college) the well roundedness and easy drinking ability of this one shows. Towards the end I was really enjoying the beer and was sad to see it finish. Awesome beer.

Bottle Pours out a cloudy rust/amber topped with a small head. Aroma very nice sweetness lots of caramell. A little hop. Tast lots of the sweetness very nice. A good rich malt and some vanilla. Thanks Puddintane

12 oz bottle courtesy of tjthreh. Pour is cloudy orange amber, with a thin off white head, nice lacing after a quick swirl of the glass. Noticeable floaties in the glass. Aroma of dusty resin maltiness, a bit of alcohol heat. Some floral honey sweetness. Taste is resin, nutty, maltiness - a sharp twinge of alcohol to the finish. Palate is dry, medium, mouth coating, alcohol present. There really is none of the sweetness from the nose in the flavor, in fact this beer did not really taste like it smelled at all. Decent enough beer, but not too complex and a bit harsh for my liking.

Pours a three finger very light tan head that fades slowly, leaving some lace. Cloudy amber color. Light-medium carbonation and medium-heavy bodied. Roasted malt nose. Flavor is sweet roasted molasses. $3.90 for a 12oz bottle from Colonial Spirits Acton, Ma.

From a 12 oz bottle this poured a very rich and dark amber with an off-white head and lots of lacing. Mouthfeel very slick and oily. Flavor is of sweet malt, ripe fruit, alcohol, and earthiness. Reminds me a lot of Old Stock from North Coast. A very nice brew.

Sampled at tronraner’s Xmas Eve^3 tasting. Clear orange amber pour with minimal offwhite head. Aroma of sweet honey and alcohol. Dark fruits, plum flavors. Alcohol on the finish. Not overly impressed, but still a very drinkable big boy.