Founders Nemesis 2009
Bottle poured into my usual tulip glass. Pours a great orange amber color. The 1/2 finger head fades quickly from the year of age. The smell is the best part of this beer with smells of bourbon maple and burnt sugar. Simply awesome. The taste is strongly of bourbon. Tastes similar to Backwoods Bastard in this respect. I wish this was toned down a little bit. The taste of maple and vanilla evens it out a little bit, but not perfectly. The mouthfeel is great and smooth as can be. No alcohol burn at all. This is a big beer and could tell right away I had to sip on this for a while. Slight alcohol burn at the end. I wonder how many IBU's were in this one compared to the 100 IBU in the 2010 Nemesis. It seems to be fewer and not as balanced. I really enjoyed this beer for what it is. At first I thought I would want a lot more of it, and now I think maybe just one more to see how it ages in a few more years would be sufficient.