Founders Curmudgeon Old Ale

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 8

(trade w/changeup45) - Minimal foam after slight pfft opening bottle. Murky muddy dark brown body. Aroma of cocoa powder and raisins. Very sweet. Raisins and figs. Mouthfeel has a texturre like there’s something in it like cocoa. Slight alcoholic aftertaste. Hope to have this on draft someday to see how it tastes fresh.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

12oz bottle from Tim, thanks
Appearance: Pours cloudy dark amber with a medium sized beige head and some lacing
Aroma: Toasted malts, sweet toffee and vanilla
Taste: Toasted malts, bready, sweet toffee, finished with a bitter pine
Very good and easy to drink, nice.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Bottle courtesy of Degarth. Thanks again. Poured a murky-brackish brown with no head. The aroma is kind of light with shriveled up dates, plums and raisins. Behind that I also smell a nice sweet caramel. The flavor is complex and not altogether smooth. The flavor starts with a bolt of alcohol then alcohol soaked dates, plums and raisins. That takes the taste to beyond midway where a sweet caramel flavor takes over for the main note. Also joining the fun is a roasted maltiness and some cinnamon. Excellent winter sipping brew.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

35,5cl bottle shared by Arve_Christian - thanks! Pours clear deep amber with an off-white head. Malty and caramelly aroma with notes of wood, vanilla, spices and bourbon. Sweet and caramelly with nice, but somewhat strange spicy notes and a certain bitterness. Too much on the sweet side, but still quite interesting.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bottle at Tampa Tasting 26 May: Poured a orange copper color with light head. Aroma is fermented fruit and malt. Taste is a sweet boozy fruit and malt, very similar to a barleywine.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Enjoyed in Vermont. Pours a clean, dark amber colour with a frothy light-beige head, good retention and creamy lacing. Slightly sweet malty aromas with some dark fruits, caramel and light oak. The wood shows up more in the taste creating a nice balance with the caramel and the hints of vanilla. Alcohol nicely hidden. Not as rich as expected, but lots going on, well-blended.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

pours a light red or copper with a small head that sank to a rim of foam. The aroma is malty and sugary sweetness, fruity hop aroma, scotch ale sweetness and malt character, found and full nose. The taste is rich and robust, & fruity. The mouthfeel is on the light side of medium bodied with a slightly bitter finish.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8

355 ml bottle, from Voldby Købmandsgaard. ABV is 9.8%. 50 IBU. Cloudy brown colour, low beige head of poor retention. Sweetish malty aroma, notes of caramel and oak, hints of dark dried fruits and alcohol. Not as sweet flavour as I feared, malty and oaky, caramel and dried figs, well balanced with the hops, a nice bitterness in the finish and aftertaste. Would buy again.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

280 ml, on tap at the ICBF, Dublin 09/14. Poured in a session glass a clear and amber-copper coloured O A with a short one finger fine and beige foamy head that had a long retention and tons of micro bubbles. Low carbonation. Great lacing. The aroma is fruity, grapes,raisins on a solid toasted malty backbone, woody and honey notes. The flavour is citrussy fruits, dried fruits, raisins, apricots, nuts, toasted malts, caramel and spicy, vanilla and a ginger touch, molasses. The mouthfeel is fulled, syrupy and very smooth. The texture is oily. This full bodied O A has a lingering fruity finish. The alcohol is completely hidden during all the tasting and at the end, a nice warming feeling is emerging. Great and an unexpected outstanding experience

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 10

Pours a light- carbonation top. Light orange in color, a little oak aroma.An explosion of flavors upon tasting.I pick up a leathery taste and perhaps some berry notes.Then it boomerangs with a sharp dry bitterness.The alcohol seems to be well hidden, enveloped by all those good flavors.A well made Old Ale.