Year of New Beer: Barrel Runner, Founders Brewing (MI)

Written By: Dion on 07/16/2018

There's just no amount of verbage that can dress this up. It would be like putting lipstick on a pig. In short, this smells like a cross between furniture polish and some kind of chemistry experiment gone awry. On the tongue it's harshly bitter with an alcohol burn that has no redeeming barrel character at all. I'm shocked that a brewery with the history and reputation that Founders has would find this acceptable to bottle. I've got 25 years of craft beer under my belt, and I would need to revisit Wild Blue to be 100% sure, but this may be the worst beer I've ever tasted.