Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Big thanks to Ucusty for the hand bottle! The pour is thick and dark brown/black with a small brown head. The aroma is chocolate, mocha, kalua, maple syrup, and a touch of green apple. The flavor... Wow! this is thick and sweet. Maple syrup lends a nice, complementary touch. Otherwise sweet milk chocolate takes the forefront. A little coffee. Unfortunately, I’m still picking up a little green apple which puts it off slightly. The finish however is much more complex with the strong roasted quality taking over followed by some burnt wood and a nice balancing bitterness. A real pleasure to try this beer!

Handbottle via trade with StFun - Pours a dark brown color with no head or lacing. Aroma is coffee and roasted malt. Flavor is sweetened coffee, chocolate, and roasted malt. There is a hint of vanilla in the finish. Medium body. Besides the lack of carbonation (probably do to the handbottling), this is a pretty nice coffee stout. Thanks Josh.

12oz handbottle courtesy of ygtbsm94. Thanks for sharing, Brad! Black, tan creamy head. Complex dark roast coffee aromas are well layered over swirls of vanilla-maple oak and black chocolate cream. Soft burnt coffee, bittersweet chocolate and sweet maple fudge flavors rest on a light wooden foundation from start to finish. Medium bodied and smooth, cask-like carbonation, sweet maple coffee finish. This seriously needs to be considered for future bottling as a seasonal…

Thanks to ditmier for sharing this hand bottled brew. pours out black topped with a nice brown head. Aroma was very nice plenty vanilla, coffee, and wood. Taste much like the aroma but with some bitter choclate.

Draft at Brouwer’s during Seattle Beer Week. Black with dark brown creamy head. Bourbon oak aroma. Smooth blend of chocolate, roast, bourbon, and sweet bacon (really? I guess...it’s in my notes...). Moderate alcohol burn. Mild bitter finish. Beautiful aroma.

12oz handbottle from wetherel shared at the socal sour tasting, this was an epic handbottle that really brought out a lot. Pours black with a light brown head. Nose is sweet with interesting varied notes. Taste is sweet mapely wow, really a damn epic imperial stout.

12oz handbottle from pwoods. Huge thanks Patrick! Excellent condition. A little smoke. Lightly sweet. Mellower than regular breakfast stout. I can’t notice the maple. Very good.

On tap at Brouwers Stout Festival this past spring. I can’t imagine having one at the ass-crack of dawn, but maybe the first one of the day. Coffe and maple syrup flavors make the breakfast angle.