Beer: Arrogant Bastard Ale

Brewery: Stone Brewing

Location: Escondido, Cafifornia

Style: Ale

Alcohol: 7.2%

One of the things I love most about craft beer is the different names given to the brews. Being a marketer at heart, I try to see how well the brewery has matched the name with the beer (much like the Brew Brothers Collaboration pack I reviewed last month). Somehow the overall experience of beering seems to be elevated by the right name for the right brew. It could be completely in my head, but I’ve heard from several other sources that this phenomenon is a true thing, so I’ll go with it.

Stone Brewing’s Arrogant Bastard Ale is one of those beer that seems to taste better just knowing its name is “Arrogant Bastard. ” There is a lot going on in this beer and you really have to pay attention to take it all in. Let’s start from the top: When you take a sniff of this beer, you get the regular Ale-esque notes, but there’s a little something extra there… something “intense” and perhaps a little intimidating. But enough with this smell stuff, let’s “hop” right to it. Flavours almost overwhelm you the second this beer enters your yapper. Right off the bat you are slammed with really earthy and full malts that send you for a ride. If the malts aren’t enough for you, some pretty gnarly hops come in to slap you around a bit. There’s no safe word to save you here, even the aftertaste reminds you of what just happened inside your face. The one saving grace is the 7.2% abv which numbs you a bit so you don’t feel the punches so much. I like to think that Stone Brewing’s Arrogant Bastard is a tale that I will tell my grandchildren about, so my story about the time I fought a bear won’t be so scary.

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