Founders Brewing Co. to Release Frootwood, a Maple-Bourbon Cherry Ale
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Founders Brewing Co. of Grand Rapids, MI, is celebrating its 20th anniversary year throughout 2017, and they intend to do so in style, with a series of new barrel-aged beers. This series will “celebrate the highly regarded barrel-aging program,” according to Founders, and includes popular and sought-after releases such as KBS and Backwoods Bastard in April and Nov. respectively.
Most interesting to beer geeks, however, are the four NEW barrel-aged beers in the series. Leading off that series is Frootwood, “a cherry ale aged in oak barrels that have previously held both bourbon and maple syrup.” Wracking my brain for the hazy memories of my last trip to Founders when I attended their raucous Black Party this previous April, I recall tasting an experimental beer that fit this description. As memory serves, it was as sweet and decadent a dram as you would expect with both the fruit and barrel-aged elements in full force. To quote the Founders press release: