Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS)

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

Enjoyed this release at the MI brewers guild fest in July of this year. Amen brother! A heavenly beer. Must be a recipe from god (or who ever you worship...)

A great pour. Thick dark roasted chocolate & coffee, almost chewable. Heavy malty sweetness. Wonderful brew to sip with with a friend.

In short: A big roasted coffee chocolaty and woody imperial stout. Excellent, way above average
How: Bottle 12oz. I’ve had it many times before but I’m finally rating one. This one is a 1 year bottle given to me by dmac 1 year ago, thanks a lot Dave.
The look: Black body topped by a tan ring of foam
In long: Nose is roasted and black coffee. Taste is more of the same. Sweet cacao upfront, roasted coffee beans, alcohol moderately apparent, some black chocolate, rather sweet, brown sugar, molasses hint, low on the fruity side of things, low-profile hops with mild bitterness. Only a light barrel presence. This truly is a superior Imperial Stout but I had it next to the Expedition Stout of the same age (1 year old) and honestly the KBS doesn’t hold a candle to the Expedition, unless of course you stick a candle in the KBS bottle but then you won’t be able to drink it

I actually had this one a few time before have the non BA breakfast. This is some beer, I really enjoy it. Lots of bourbon and creamy with vanilla and oak. Lots of bitter coffee and rich dark cocoa. Sticky body and pitch black.

Pours brown with a thin tan head. Smells of bourbon and day old coffee rinds. Tastes like someone dumped Sanka and Guinness into a whiskey barrel then filtered it through an ash tray.

Bottle purchased at Crown #15, in Fishers, IN. Pours like black coffee, from the bottle, raising a thin, creamy dark cocoa head that leaves cascading, patchy lace upon the snifter. The nose is of old coffee blended with bourbon and a light note of cigarette ash. This is NOT among my favorite noses on an imperial stout. As I see all of the 8s & 9s running down this page, I have to wonder if I have a poorly handled bottle or if my nose is just off this evening. Medium-bodied and oily with a moderately astringent finish. Sweet, roasty, fruity dark malt with a sweet, oaky bourbon backing and a light tobacco ashiness at the finish. This beer definitely improves as it nears room temperature, but with it’s reputation, I was expecting much more. It’s good... but not great.

Bottle: pours a nice dark motor oil black with a thin tan head that was quick to disappear, aroma is loaded with coffee, a hint of the bourbon, tobacco and oak, taste is coffee, dark chocolate, bourbon, a touch bitter, medium body which is probably the only disappointment for me. I’d like to have this feel a little heavier. Still very good stuff!

A 07 Bottle poured into a tulip glass produce a coco colored head that left little lace on top of a pitch black body Big roasted malts (chocolate and coffee) smell coming off my glass some wood quality in the nose as well even a little tobacco smell that kind of threw me a curve You can taste the bourbon a little vanilla, of coarse the chocolate and espresso hit your taste buds too. Great mouthfeel to it like a stout should be rich and smooth Great sippability on this not to be drank quickly as you can tell If I saw this on a shelf I would not pass it by