Founders Breakfast Stout

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

330 mL. Pours jet black with a menacing ultra dark tan head that dwindles to a thin layer leaver spotty lacing. Aromas of espresso, cocoa, coffee grounds, molasses. Taste is huge on the coffee but not too astringent or acidic. Nice oily, coating mouthfeel. Some ultra dark chocolate in the finish. 8.3% is nicely hidden. Excellent.

this is deffiniatly a coffee lover’s dream. Aroma was dominated by roasted cofeee with a heaping of dose of dark chocolate. Poured pretty thick and it coated the mouth nicely, very velvety. Taste lingered for a while with its strong coffee and dark chocolate notes, everything about this was as promised no surprises. I just had to taste this one but it is not my style that is for sure. But on it’s merrits I give it a ........

Bottle courtesy of dkachur on 11/22/2008 from ukusty. Dark black body with a medium creamy light brown head. Big coffee aroma with light chocolate and molassas. Big coffee flavor, more chocolate and caramel. Medium full body with moderately low carbonation.

This is up there among my favorite beers-- I was moping about the three I had in my basement from last year’s brewing when I found that the local beer store had a case. It’s an incredibly deep and complex beer, and around Philadelphia I’ve found that the biggest problem is that it gets served too cold (many bars serve pretty much everything at about the same temperature), and it’s so, so much better when it gets up above, I don’t know, 50 degrees. Warm, cold, whatever-- an excellent beer.

beer 3 in the 4 day trip. This bottle has sat since September,and is Wayyyyyyyy better than the first one I had. Excellent flavors of Coffee chocolate and some prunes with light hints of vanilla. Little bit of caramel in there too. Has to be in my top 5.

Oily pour with thin chocolate/beige/tan head. Very light coffee smells, really didnt overwhelm me. Didnt get a nose full. Tastes like....cofee. Bitter dry oatmeal and hop finsh. This would definitely go good with bacon and eggs. Good stout.

I mainly get just the coffee on this beer. I was almost unsure that it was an imperial if I didn’t already know it was one. Still very good if your dig coffee.

Bottle. Roasted malt and coffee aroma. Deep brown-black body, small brown head. Flavor is coffee all the way, with a hint of sweetness in the lengthy finish. If you love coffee, you will love this stout.