Bastard's Midnight Brunch
Arrogant Consortia in Escondido, California, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Stone BrewingStrong Ale Rotating Out of Production
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Score
7.65
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Depth-Charged Double Bastard Ale Aged in Kentucky Bourbon Barrels & Northeast Ohio Maple Syrup Barrels
Evenings trying to forget the crushing mediocrity of one’s life are typically the main driver to late-night breakfast plates at unforgivingly overlit diners stacked with industrialized, frozen-dumped-in-a-fryer “food.” An interlude between sophomoric late-night antics, questionable decisions and inevitable morning regret. That’s not how I play it. For those who know how to grab life by the horns*, however, this bottle pairs even better with accomplishment, life lived out loud, and well-timed moves that often appear as luck to those not paying attention. A specifically designed midnight brunch feast with like-minded folks who not only have their wits about them but actually have wits, and an artfully prepared feast sets the more appropriate stage for this beer. The bottle is worth a special occasion. Create yours to accompany it.
*Touch mine, though, and I'll provide you with the deepest possible understanding of the word "regret."
Evenings trying to forget the crushing mediocrity of one’s life are typically the main driver to late-night breakfast plates at unforgivingly overlit diners stacked with industrialized, frozen-dumped-in-a-fryer “food.” An interlude between sophomoric late-night antics, questionable decisions and inevitable morning regret. That’s not how I play it. For those who know how to grab life by the horns*, however, this bottle pairs even better with accomplishment, life lived out loud, and well-timed moves that often appear as luck to those not paying attention. A specifically designed midnight brunch feast with like-minded folks who not only have their wits about them but actually have wits, and an artfully prepared feast sets the more appropriate stage for this beer. The bottle is worth a special occasion. Create yours to accompany it.
*Touch mine, though, and I'll provide you with the deepest possible understanding of the word "regret."
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8.2/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
16.9 oz corked and caged bottle bought at Whole Foods in Boise. Pours a muddy brown liquid that raises no head; has a thin beige collar. Aroma is chocolate, toffee, wood, raisin, nutty, maple syrup, vegetal in a not bad way, licorice, tar. Taste is sweet, finishing with quite a bit of bitterness; all the aroma descriptors are present in flavor, as well as the coffee, which I couldn’t pick out of the aroma. Very tasty shit. It’s one ugly beer, though, so put two bags over its head and go to town.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2016
at 01:46