Founders Breakfast Stout

Draft at Spuyten Duyvil Coffe....big on the roasted coffee flavor. Dark brown head...tasted coffee, chocolate wood and a nice bitterness in the finish... Great overall Imperial Stout

Bottle. Courtesy of Sparky27. Pours a dark creamy brown with a subtle tan head. Aroma is mostly coffee. Tastes of cocoa, coffee, licorice, roasted malt, and corn syrup dominate this brew. I LOVE COFFEE, so I enjoyed this throughly. Palate is not to heavy, and is balanced well with the booze.

Draft at Spuyten Duyvil. Black pour with some tan head. Aroma is sweet oaty malt, roasted malt, coffee, and some cola. Flavor is the same, sweet oaty malt and chocolate, roast, cola, some not-fresh coffee grounds in the finish. It’s good, but not really my style.

*did not mind would not buy* aroma: dry mealy coffee, old stale spent espresso grounds. also some cardboard. nothing rich or wonderful really. app: black not decadent. foamy tan head. flavor: nice, not great lil boozy. the lack of richness and malty huge depth compared to the sharp booze is a bit out of balance and not pleasing, the aftertaste is very nice though. i wish the taste was more like the after taste. palate, to thin to spritzy. OA: nice not great. needs to be more rich and smooth.

had it on the cask--after-- the kentucky bourbon. this has a better flavor but is less in every other way. the absence of the cheap bourbon taste is nice and it is nicely hopped in this presentation. guess i gotta re-rate but here i go for now. the head is foamy and the beer is lighter and a bit oatey. low sweetness.

A pitch black color, opaque, with a dark caramel colored head that forms slightly and dissolves away quickly. The scent in a word, DAMN! There is alot coming out when smelling this beer. It starts with a combination of chocolate and coffee fragrances, and it blends itself to a sweet oatmeal scent. The taste is well blended flavor of chocolate, then to coffee, and fianlly to the oatmeal, with slight touch of bitterness at the end. A rich feel, yet very smooth, light syrupy texture at the back, it does have very nice dry finish. Man, this is an excellent stout, an intense aroma, very strong flavor and a wonderful mouthfeel, make this a very drinkable beer.

Had to pick up a bottle in Brussels, and took it to England, and back to Amsterdam, together with a whole bunch of other stouts, that was a heavy bag to travel with. Anyway, muchos gracias brad. I love to poor a decent strong stout. The black, syrup-ish liquid, ending with a dark brown head, every time again, why is there a lack of these kinds of beers in Europe? Just beautiful, so was this one. Further more, not very much in the nose here, but I’m a little bit sick, could that be it? the taste is overwhelming, the coffee stays subtle. Actually, this is a subtle beer. subtle chocolate, subtle bitterness. It’s always hard for me to decide whether I like the arrogant unbalanced super stout above the subtile well done brews. However, this beer gives me a long moment of enjoyment, and with this kind of brews, in my opinion, the brewer deserves more respect then with a (often lovely) beer where a brewer finishes off with just an extra two bags of hops.

Actually drank this for breakfast yesterday. It set a certain tone for the whole day, I think. Bottle pours inky jet black with a dark brown head. Awesome nose, dark chocolate and strong black coffee, also something burnt in there, like cooled coals after a campfire, and now it’s the morning and whaddyaknow, time for breakfast. Flavor starts with a slight sourness like pumpernickel, easing into a long, slow, roasted coffee bitterness, where the campfire smoke melds with perfectly reasonable hops. Oily, thick but smooth, quite dry mouthfeel. Bitter, toasty aftertaste. Top of the morning.