Name: Dirty Bastard
Brewer: Founder's Brewing Co. (Grand Rapids, MI)
Classification: Scotch Ale
Alcohol: 8.5%
Thoughts: Founders is out and out one of the best breweries in the world and while they have some amazing beers I would love to feature on the blog I can't get my hands on them. But I could get my hands on Dirty Bastard. I've had it before, but on draft, and knew what to expect. It didn't disappoint. It pours like a wine - thick, fluid and creamy. It is a nice cloudy mahogany color with a small, but dense tan head. If you have ever had a glass of Macallan 12 then you know how smooth and sweet and earthy that scotch smells. Well this is a less potent version of that. The taste started out on the bready side with some caramel added in. The hop flavors quickly come to the tongue and mellow some of the sweetness. First a more citrus hop flavor comes on the scene, shortly followed by the pine and more earthy hop flavors. In the end a somewhat piney and spicy hop flavor mixed with a smooth bread flavor are left to linger on the tongue. If you didn't know scotch starts off as beer, it is then distilled and turned into scotch. Well if Dirty Bastard was distilled it would be one of the finest scotches in the world, no doubt.
Rating: 88/100
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