Founders Breakfast Stout

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

This offering from Founder’s is all that I expected and more. It pours onyx black leaving a creamy tan head that is sticky, and clings to the glass. The nose is fantastic roasted coffee beans, creamy vanilla under tones, and a warm inviting presence of alcohal. The taste on the palate is very nice, creamy, milky, it starts bitter, roasted espresso is very present. You can taste a toffee sweetness, also some bittersweet chocolate is infused in this brew, it then finishes syrup thick that coats the tongue. I love this brew it just solidifies my love for the American Stout.

[bottle] Looks beautiful, smells like COFFEE.. really nice coffee. Taste is massive: chocolate, coffee, kind of nutty oats. The flavors last for a really long time.. giving way to fine coffee/chocolate and a slight bitterness. This is a wonderful beer- I could definitely drink this for breakfast.

Intense! This is breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Or at least dessert - skip the chocolate cake and bring on this stout. Pours dark brown with ruby highlights, but hits the glass and fills it with a brown-black that light does not penetrate. Brown fluffly head. Alcohol and coffee nose. Starts coffee, with a lon middle, and intense chocolate finish. Malts and tar (in a good way) along the way. Thick, rich mouth feel. Wonderful stuff! But a little too intense for regular consumption - save it for a special occassion or to knock the socks off a lager-head.

AWESOME BEER THICK CREAMY AND VERY CHOCOLATEY BUT SMOOTH AS SILK I LOVE STOUTS AND FOUND THIS VERY PLEASING

Draft rating. Draft > Bottle, no question. The blurb is right other then coffee bender this is the closest thing to a serious cup of joe. Better is loaded with roasty coffee, bitter and black, yet sweet with oats and chocolate. A very delicate balance and is truly incredible on draft and great out of the bottle.

Pours like oil with a frothy brownish-red head. Tons of coffee in the aroma, some nuttiness, deep dark chocolate notes, tons of roast and burnt malts- amazing nose. Flavor contains tons of coffee and chocolate, perfectly melded together with some oatiness and vanilla for a dessert-like quality. Some nice burnt bitterness and oily coffee notes at the finish. The slightest bit dry and fairly heavy in the palate. A bit sticky. Glorious beer.

This is an excellent beer from top to bottom. Great aroma with bitter coffee up front and nice mellow chocolate in the finish. A rich dark malty flavor of more chocolate and toasty sweetness that is perfectly balanced. This stout really impresses with a full creamy and velvety mouthfeel. It reminded me of a good chocolate malt but with the necessary mix of coffee bitterness. Near perfection.

I have to say that this is about as good as it gets! Get your A$$ to Grand Rapids and buy some Founders. This beer is everything it should be and more: its got roasted coffee, dark bitter chocolate, mollasses, malt flavor, oats and then more coffee. Its very thick and filling - truly an amazing beverage.