Founders Dirty Bastard Scotch Ale

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

355ml bottle into tulip. Smells of rich chocolate, rum and raisins, a little pepper. Mahogany red/brown beer with light only penetrating the edges. Small creamy off-white head. Slightly zingy mouthfeel, full bodied and viscous. Taste is dark bitter chocolate and cocoa. Finish is dry, bitter and malty. Warming alcohol notes at the end. Good dessert beer, really nice.

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

12 oz bottle. Poured a shiny ruby to amber color with thin tan head. Aroma is a bit weak with sweet sweet malt and a slight roastiness. The flavor starts off with some hop bitterness and slight roasted maltiness. Then deeper roasted malt sweetness, sort of molasses, and a bit of dark fruit come out of hiding. Tough to pin down the flavor any more than that. Maybe there is a touch of brown sugar in there too. I also get a slight sense of the ABV. This beer really begins to shine when it is the third or fourth beer being consumed. The malts, hops and slight Barleywine taste really hits the spot.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

How could you not like the name of this brew? Short stubby 12 oz bottle that is certainly not a long neck. Has a twist off cap. No head. Cloudy root beer appearance. Chocolate rubbing alcohol aroma, really attractive. OOOH, smoothness makes you take a big swig then the malt alky impact whacks you in the palate. A rather strong alky brew and it tells you. It is so easy to confuse scotch ale with the milder Scottish ales. Simply just buzz making. What a brew, like somebody spiked this beer with whiskey. Strong, numbs up the old tase buds rather quickly. Yes, the taste is somewhat like the aroma; big bold and intoxicating. Really coats the back of your throat. Finish is medium long and malty alcohol bitter. Barely acceptable as a beer because of it’s style but it is on par with McEwans Scotch Ale, OB Chubb and 3F’s the bruce. Really is powerful as stated in the description. Quite an exceptional rude alky experience, these scotch ales; and especially this, rerated same 7/2017, whew. Scotch ale kick fricken ass compared to scottish ale on RB!

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

35,5cl bottle from Drink Shop, Tallinn. Pours slightly hazy deep ruby to copper coloured with a fairly modest, off-white head. Aroma of caramel, dried fruits, malt and hints of wood. Sweet, very sweet, but still surprisingly drinkable and surprisingly tasty. Usually I wouldn’t be a big fan of beers like this, but somehow it works. It is somehow balanced and it’s surprisingly smooth and drinkable.

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

Clear dark ruby, tanned lacing lasting foam head. Sweet hoppy barley aroma, quite nice. Bittersweet taste, lots of fruit tones, leving smoky bitter aftertaste. (Cleveland 201510)

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

Pours a deep dark red colored body and a low, bubbly, beige head that laced well. Sweet aromas of honey and dried fruits. Jammy fruits and nutty flavors. Prolonged dried fruity ending. Well bodied and well masked alcohol. Medium to full bodied.

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

Copper pour with a medium thin off white head. Fair amount of lace. Burnt grass aroma with chocolate in the background. Malty sweetness with a little hop bitterness in the finish. Nice.

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

6-pack from the LCBO. Pours a dark brown copper with deep amber colour highlights. Big frothy yellow-beige cap with good retention and some creamy foam lace. Aromas of sweet malts (caramel, butterscotch) with heavy fruits (plums, dates) and some burnt sugars. Thankfully, the taste is not as sweet. Yes, the dark fruits are there, but milder with the malts, but some decent bitterness from the hops come in and adds some dryness to the finish. This makes this an interesting Scotch Ale, but not one I would seek again.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

Just took my first drink & YUK big bitter hoppy taste. No where on the label did it mention IPA. On the bight side it is very dark brown and pours a very light head. But even before I drank it I could smell the hops.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Was looking for another beer, picked up a Scot instead. Murky reddish brown, practically headless. Smells of dried fruit sugar, brown bread, something almost like cola, but surprisingly little molasses. The bite immediately notifies me the flavor is off. It's like a Scottish ale buried underneath orange peel and smoke, as if someone dumped in some IPA and porter to finish it. I can understand why people might like this beer, which is the only reason I'm not rating it lower, but this is just not what I want when I reach for a Scot. Sure, it feels right: velvety and heavy with faint carbonation. But good mouthfeel won't make up the difference. doulos31 had this pegged years ago: "for style, this was a stinker.... If you are hankering for a scottish ale, this isn't your beer."