Founders Breakfast Stout

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

Mmmmmm, I finally get to try my first Founder’s product, and it’s their highest beer! This stuff is so good, it is very sweet, but has a black-coffee taste that is pure esspresso--like when you make coffee thick enough to have a deep black head, this is this beer. The body is very thin though, and the immediate flavor miasma that is founders breakfast stout dissipates VERY quickly on the tongue, which surprised me for one of the most highly revered beers of all time. Usually dark beers in the 100 percentiles are thick and chewy and black enough to make you bite your lips after only six ounces of drinking them, but this one’s thinner body and lack of astringency add an incredible drinkability, which I’m not sure that I like. Only because I’m going into this thinking--ok, -it better be heavier’n HELL! But it isn’t; it’s extremely balanced, oily, and flavorful, but the absurd ’’’’bigness’’’’ and ’’’’worldliness’’’’ is lacking in this one. I would still buy it everyday of my life it it was priced regularly.

tap at the memphis taprooms philadelphia. pours black with a thin milky tan head. nose is pungeant chocolate, coffee, malty goodness, some nuttiness, and some definite hops. taste is glorious, witha fluffy mouthfeel i could drink like a million of these. sooo good. so gluggable.

Pours tepid dark brown, minor tan ring for a head. Aroma of bitter coffee, little else. Flavor picks it up with some cocoa to compliment, almost resulting in Starbuck’s mocha frappuccino. Rather thin body, milky roast lasting longest. Overall, one-sided and rather unimpressive. If I want coffee, I’ll put $5 towards good coffee. Otherwise, Speedway destroys this.

Bottle shared by wolf. Black in color, not much head. The aroma is spicey/tobassco and coffee. Taste is nice balanced coffee stout. Burnt malts, maybe a little tobasco. The texture was just average for a stout. No trace of alcohol. Overall a good stout but not great. Thanks wolf for sharing.

Bottle. Poured black in color with small tan head. Aroma is lots of coffee, and spices. Taste is a nice breakfast stout with lots of coffee, and roasted malts. Overall a nice stout.

This one seems to have an abundance of bitter oats with some coffee beans and dark chocolate. Its a nice mix but I think its a bit too heavily accentuated towards the barley. It seems a bit too much on the burnt gingery side of things as well. The strengths outweigh the negatives. I love the dry finish with sparks of roasted coffee flavors bursting out.

Bottle. Haven’t had it in a few years. Dark as night pour with brown head. Load of coffee and bitter chocolate, so smooth and a huge finish. Amazing

(10.22.08) 12 oz. bottle: Black as can be, with a fine brown head. Great coffee aroma, but the taste is a little burnt. Bitter chocolate rounds out the flavor. Lingering finish. Gets a little rough by the end of the glass though.