Founders Breakfast Stout

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

Bottle at shack of party banter dance-off. Aroma is roasty, chocolate, fruity, cigars, good quality coffee. Taste however is too intence and really difficult to swallow as it goes on. A bit upsetting as the aroma was quite acceptable.

12oz bottle-pours a thin dissipating brown head and black color. Aroma is coffee, roasty, some sharpness. Taste is ash/coffee/roasty-dark malt, some sharpness/acidic. Not my taste. Thanks jwc215 for sharing.

Thick black body with a nice tan head and heavy roasted coffee aroma. Sweet thick rich coffee flavor with a tingling carbonation and a full palate. I would love to drink one of these for breakfast everyday.

Re-rate (bottle)... This beer rocks!... Wow! What a difference drinking this beer at the proper temperature makes. Some sweetness appeared and a ton of the burnt and bitter notes were zapped. Much better this time around. Drank it out of a coffee cup because I was totally NOT taking this second bottle seriously. I still prefer Speedway and Peche Mortel, but this is a world class beer! Score moves up from 3.4 to 4.0 --------&# Intial Rating: (Bottle)... Pitch black ale with a small, fizzy, light brown head. The aroma delivers huge coffee with lesser notes of cocoa powder, chocolate covered cherries, burnt caramel and vanilla. Tastes like dark coffee grounds, unsweetened chocolate and campfire ash. Full-bodied and astringent with fizzy carbonation. Lengthy, way bitter, bone-dry finish. The alcohol is well-hidden behind all the burnt, bitter notes. Well made. I can see why so many people like it, but it’s a bit too scorched for me. I’ll stick to Alesmith and Dieu Du Ciel for my coffee stouts.

courtesy of Allen - pitch black colour without head; pure and intense aroma of coffee beans with notes of sage and basil; roasted; thick and oily, low carbonation, solid bitterness; very long roasted coffeish aftertaste with more undefined herbal notes - powerful and quite complex: a beautiful beer

Bottle. Lots of coffee and dark chocolate in both the aroma and flavour. Some instant coffee type flavours, but nice roasty bitterness, perhaps a touch too much coffee, which was probably the only downpoint, because i thought this was extremely tasty, and yeah, i could imagine drinking this for breakfast. If you like coffee, you’ll love this beer.

Dark brown colour with a light brown head. Sweet chocolate aroma with a nice roasted malty note. Coffee flavor with a chocolate sweetness.

The Lure:
Decadence meets in the balanced gathering of roasted coffee beans, dark chocolate and dollops of wet cream. Sweetness pushes them onwards into a fantastic saturnalia.

The Festivities:
Oh my god, this is a cousin of Péché Mortel!! Sweet chocolate blended with malt roastiness into a devilishly smooth and intensely flavorful stoutuccino. Sudden desires of being alone with this one.

Transcendence:
That baby is going to be a fat and happy kid.