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Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS)

Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) - Imperial Stout

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100
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Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout

Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
7674.21/5.04.2/5.011.2%97.7Snifter
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Commercial Description:
A bit of backwoods pleasure without the banjo. This strong stout is brewed with a hint of coffee and vanilla then aged in oak bourbon barrels. Our process ensures that strong bourbon undertones come through in the finish in every batch we brew. We recommend decanting at room temperature and best enjoyed in a brandy snifter.
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MxPx1484 (13), USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/104/519/20
May 19, 2009  
This is delicious! So many flavors, nice and roasty. You can really taste the vanilla. A man’s man’s beer


 ketchepillar (475), Viña del Mar, Chile
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
May 16, 2009  
12oz bottle received in trade 8/2008. A very aggressive beer. The bourbon is not very pronounced-no alcohol heat. Great finish-lingering coffee with some rich chocolate. Slightly chalky, but in a good way-makes it seem drier. As it warms, there is more and more vinous character-not good. Carbonation is too low-almost completely flat. The chocolate and are really good in this, and they go well with some malt roast.


 hillfiiiiire (283), Madison, Wisconsin, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
May 16, 2009  
Dark pour with a tan head. Aroma is burnt vanilla and molasses and chocolate. Flavor is bitter chocolate and bourbon, but not overpowering, but the flavor certainly is strong. Nice rounded mouthfeel. Good beer, but definitely doesn’t set itself apart from other barrel aged imperial stouts though.


 crowderm (275), Recklinghausen, Germany
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
May 16, 2009  
Thick black pour with a tan head. Aroma of wood, bourbon, vanilla, smoke and chocolate. The flavor on this beer is really intense. Bourbon, roast and wood up front followed by a lingering bitter chocolate finish. Nice full mouthfeel. Good beer.


 ksurkin (355), Norfolk, Virginia, USA
5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/520/20
May 15, 2009  
12oz bottle from bruisin’ ales, 2009 release. pours a beautiful, oily, slick black with a thin, chocolate brown head. aroma is outstanding with big notes of fine bourbon, dark roasted coffee, bitter chocolate, vanilla, and smoked wood. damn this smells great. flavor is one of those "my goodness" moments when words are hard to come by to describe how wonderful this brew is. huge roast coffee notes up front, with oaked bourbon and vanilla blending in seamlessly, followed by dark, bitter chocolate, and hints of dark red fruits and roasted nuts rounding out the sip. finishes with a semi-sweet hit of chocolate, coffee, and lovely bourbon. palate is silky smooth, full bodied, and simply a pleasure to drink. overall, nothing short of perfect.


 BgThang (118), Texas, USA
4.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/105/520/20
May 14, 2009  
WOW. this beer pours black and coats the glass like coffee that has been sitting on the stove all day and almost is sludge. The flavors on this are an explosion of greatness that one is fortunate to experience. Coffee, choloate, caramel, roasty toffee. Damn this is good


 Beerapprentice (111), Hopatcong, New Jersey, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/519/20
May 13, 2009  
Smells of bourbon, first and foremost; chocolate, vanilla, and coffee. Prevalent taste of bourbon, malts, chocolate, and coffee with light carbonation. Rich dark brown colour with slight, quickly disappearing light brown head. Excellent, flavorful bourbon stout.


 cgarvieuk (4159), Edinburgh, Scotland
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
May 13, 2009  
Bottle at home with Tom and Royce ... smokey woody nose ... again i get the Bourbon ... lots of woodness and a little smokeyness ... coffee and vanilla as expected... good balance... but just not quite there for me ...3.5 <tk2> Bottle at home with Fin...smokey woody chocolate malt nose ... deep dark chocolate with the bitterness that comes with a 70+% coco chocolate ... light vanilla ... bourbon seems much more subdued this time 3.7

Tk3 2009 Bottle at my cloisters Bar staff tasting no2... deep deep black ... huge coffee nose little smokey malts ... smooth sweet lots of chocolate ... little charcoalin linger ... little bourbon, but quite light. 4.1



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