Founders Breakfast Stout

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

Pours like a thick black cola with big soda like carbonation bubbles and clumpy brown head. Aroma of coffee spilled on coffee cake, coffee grounds, cinnamon. This is a really nice coffee stout. The oatmeal adds a nice vanilla cream sweetness, however it finishes dry and bitter like black coffee and dark unsweetened chocolate. Earthy, some tobacco as well. I think I might like this better than Kentucky breakfast, the sweet bourbon just conflicts with the coffee there. Medium body with light soda-like carbonation, fluffs up in the mouth just a bit. Fast drinking... .

Two 12oz bottles sampled at my Imperial Stout tasting. Pours a thick, oily, viscous black with a foamy, active tan head. Aroma is mostly coffee, from far away smells a little like a chocolate milkshake, other aroma of chocolate, caramel, and breakfast aromas like cinnamon toast. It’s sort of like you’re drinking a carbonated mocha which makes this a bizarre drinking experience compared with other imperial stouts and other coffee stouts. Dark coffee grounds, dark chocolate, caramel, chocolate syrup, coffee cake, sweet sugary icing, toast and again - chocolate milk shake. Very thick in the mouth and throat with a light coffee bitterness. The bottle says it all, "Double chocolate coffee oatmeal stout". That about covers everything. Not for the faint of heart, but also not as overwhelming as other Imperial Stouts.

Poured from bottle to my Delirium Tulip glass. Pours black as can be with a slight 1/4 inch head. Nice ring of lacing around the glass. Smell is roasted coffee(mostly), a slight alcohol and some chocolate notes coming through. Taste is roasted, robust dark coffee. I’m also getting somewhat of a tobacco taste in there as well. The secret to this beer is letting it warm up to close to room temperature. Directly out of the fridge, the coffee taste is too dominant. Letting this warm up allows the mouthfeel to get a little thicker and creamier. It also allows the other flavors to come out and make themselves known. Mainly the bakers chocolate and molasses. This goes from an average beer to a world class stout at room temperature. Glad I have more of these to look forward to.

As Carl on the ATHF would say, ’’This is a Classic!!’’ Anyway. This is one of my favorites; if it’s on tap, I’m drinkin’ it until it’s gone. Pours a dark, dark black with about a centimeter of intimidating creamy tan head. Flavor is a complexity of dark chocolate, french press coffee, Kona coffee, and vanilla with the dryness of oatmeal. Velvety and full mouthfeel. Kudos if you can drink more than two and still function!

Bottle. This beer poured a dark dark blackish brown, almost no head at the start and then rising to a thick dense brown foam. Aroma is chocolate ice cream with hop overtones. Flavor is rich and dense. Thick and chewy with strong chocolate flavors, sweet to start with a bitter dark chocolate finish. Good long duration on a heavy palate, not a huge range of flavor as it pretty much sits in the sweet chocolaty zone. Smooth. Very drinkable and a great dessert beer, or for breakfast.

12oz bottle coutesy of adrian910ss via trade. Damn this beer is good looking. It poured black as night with a big puffy head that as the bottle describes is aptly cinnamon in color. The aroma is amazingly coffee like with great smokey notes. The taste is really powerful and is probalby one of the most coffee like stouts I’ve ever had, and I’m not even a coffee drinker. It is really intense, and since I have to get up early tommorrow why not have breakfast now. Great work Founders you have yet to dissapoint me.

Pretty much lived up to expectation. Thick chewy foamy head - kinda like a root beer float. Reminded me of Bell’s Expedition Stout but a bit sweeter and heavier on the coffee. Very thick on the palate - I tasted the beer for many minutes after taking a sip. Very enjoyable and would enjoy again (if I can find it anywhere again).

Black in color with a large thick beautiful brown head. Aroma is of fresh ground coffee beans. It’s like walking into a starbucks or through central markets coffee section. It also has chocolate and roasted malts in the nose. Taste is of coffee, dark chocolate, cocoa, and roasted malts. Thisck like oatmeal, rich and creamy. I want another.