Posts tagged Founders Brewing
I Tried It: Beer & Halloween Candy Pairing
I Tried It: Beer & Halloween Candy Pairing

As an adult, some nights I spend my time looking over open enrollment paperwork, trying to decide which plan really feels like "me." Other nights I tell my husband not to fill up on dinner because we have seven different kinds of candy to pair with beer while we watch Stranger Things 2.

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Jen BlairBeer Pairing, Beer and food, beer and candy, Halloween, what to do with leftover Halloween candy, Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine, beer and candy pairing, Under the Jenfluence, pumpkin keg, SR-71, Toppling Goliath, American Solera, Side Project, Hill Farmstead, Stranger Things 2, Founders Brewing, DKML, Founders DKML, barrel-aged beer, Shiner Homespun, cream ale, Allagash, Allagash Saison, Cigar City, Cigar City Tampa-Style Lager, Left Hand Brewing, Left Hand Milk Stout, Milk Stout, Sugar Creek, Sugar Creek Raspberry White Ale, Spaten, Spaten Optimator, DoppelbockComment
I Tried It: Backwoods Bastard Vertical
I Tried It: Backwoods Bastard Vertical

There are a lot worse things you can do on a Tuesday night than drink a four year vertical of Backwoods Bastard from Founders Brewing Company. Like anything else, because four bottles of this delicious barrel aged Scotch Ale is a pretty sweet Tuesday night. 

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Jen BlairBackwoods Bastard, Founders Brewing, Bigfoot, Under the Jenfluence, Scotch ale, Dirty Bastard, Sierra Nevada, beers to age, vertical tasting, beer vintages, Sherry, BJCP Guidelines, bourbon, alcohol heat, benzaldehyde, cherries, almonds, imitation almond extract, caramel, maraschino cherries, how to do blind beer tastings, evaluating beer, tasting beer, blind tastingComment