Draught at Bootleggers Craft Beer Bar. Clear, amber colour with a thin off-white head. Sweet aroma with caramel, fruits, grasses, rich greasy malts, citrus, roasted notes, ripe fruits, faint liquorice. Taste is bitter. Full body with an oily texture and a soft carbonation. Finishes lasting bitter with an aggressive hops bite. Big, fat vulgar - American. Maybe even outdated?

26.05.2017, tap @ Apollon:
Nice light amber slightly fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is sweet concentrated grassy, sugar, sap, minerals, grass, caramel malts, leafs, hops, hay, alcohol, moss, citrus peel. Taste is sweet concentrated grassy, leafs, sap, sugar, wet grass, wet hops, minerals, hay, bark, alcohol, "knekk", citrus peel, moss. Longlasting bitterness, slightly dry and harsh grassy mouthfeel. Nice enough.

Draught @ Fox & Hounds, Sønderborg. Pours slightly hazy ruby with airy but stable off-white head. Clear aroma of malt, fruit, hops and yeast, with booze in the long nose. Bitter flavour of hops and alcohol, with fruity an malty notes and touches of grass. Bitter, boozy and estery aftertaste. Bormally I am not fond of boozy bastards but this one is good :-)

As I’ve said before, one Bastard’s plenty enough for me. And while I do appreciate a few of the Double Bastard variations I’ve come across, I don’t have much love for the original DB. Just such a wildly aggressive beer, super sweet, monstrously bitter, boozy as all hell, an assault on the palate I’m not that happy to undertake again. (In fact, not sure why I’ve ended up with another bottle o’ Double Bastard, having sworn it off at least twice before. Fuck it. I’ll just blame Trump.) Anyway, the pour’s decent, the nose warns you of the massive malt-hop avalanche to come, but nothing really prepares you for that one-two punch of sweet toffee-caramel mixed with pure pinecone resin hops. Deep dark veins of brown sugar, maybe even a hint of white chocolate, followed by a little dried apricot, then on to the sweet, boozy, IBU-packed finish. I get why people dig this beer. I also understand why I don’t. Never trust a Bastard that comes in pairs. Update 8/4/24: Yeah, it’s very sweet and very bitter but it’s so damn good.

Bottle 650ml @ home
Pours hazy deep amber with a beige head. Aroma has notes malt, caramel, dried fruits, alcohol, citrus, orange and pine. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and medium to heavy bitter with a long malty, caramel, orange, citrus and piney finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

Hazy, deep amber to red colored, medium- beige creamy head, nice lasting. Aroma is of caramel, malt, dried fruits, some hard candy, orange, floral and citrus hops. Taste is medium+ sweet malt, caramel, orange hard candy, dried fruit, light chocolate, floral, citrus and fruity moderate notes, medium+ bitterness, dry finish. Medium to full bodied, soft carbonation, oily-sticky. Probably waited too long to get the most out of it but still very nice! (bottle, Bierhalle Deconinck, Vichte)