Bourbon Barrel aged beers from Founders. A brewery known for producing consistently high-quality beers, and sometimes brilliant high-gravity beers. Then sometimes, they decide to put them in oak barrels. That’s how you get these beers.
Backwoods Bastard: This is a bourbon barrel aged version of their Dirty Bastard Scotch ale. While Ian doesn’t normally like Dirty [...]

Who knew the great beer state had a month dedicated to beer?!  AMAZING.
Before I knew this wonderful month, which I had heretofore referred to as July, was in fact Michigan beer month, I passed a small liquor store in northern michigan which had a sign reading, “Crooked Tree Double IPA.”  The connoiseur that I am, [...]

So, thanks to the Michigan Brewer’s Guild, July is Michigan Beer Month!
In honor of that, I would like to point out that you can see all of our Michigan Beer reviews here.
As part of Michigan Beer Month, I will also be reviewing a whole slew of Michigan beers. Some are new, some are old favorites, [...]

So like I said before, Brian and I got tickets to the Michigan Brewer’s Guild Winter Beer Festival this past weekend. It was a blast when we got to go with some friends a few years back (when it was here in Lansing), but it was as much fun now, even though it was just [...]

So Brian and I got together tonight for the first time in a while.
Naturally, what are we doing? Blogging about beer. ‘Cause we’re sweet like that.
Tonight (as Brian promised) we’re trying Backwoods Bastard from Founders in Grand Rapids Michigan.
Lets start from the beginning.