Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS)

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

12oz bottle from Iowaherkeye. Many thanks. Served at cellar temperature. Poured an opaque black color with a thick brown head that retained its height well and left some lace behind. Smelled of chocolate, coffee, and burnt stick. Not really any booze in the nose relative to the GI bourbon county stout I tried with it. Relatively dry and roasty on the tongue with some delicate sweetness at the end accompanied by a splash of alcohol. Coffee was the dominant flavor, but there was also some mellow bourbon and vanilla supporting it. Pretty good beer.

[Bottle, thanks STLWill!] Pours black with a small tan head. Aroma has a lot of green pepper, chocolate, deep roasted malt and coffee. Huge green pepper taste up front, then chocolate, roasted malt, bourbon and coffee. Medium mouthfeel with a long finish of coffee. Not a bad beer, but nothing overly special.

OSLO and Guerde’s Memorial Weekend Tasting, 5/23/08. Thanks to STLWill for this one! Black color with a thin head. Big coffee and bourbon aroma. The taste screams both coffee and bourbon. Seems like Jack Daniels to me. A little thin, but still excellent. Dry malt finish and plent of roasted barley. Delicious.

Shared by STLWill and sampled at OSLO/Guerde’s Memorial Day Weekend tasting. From a 12 oz bottle pours an opaque dark brown brew with a thin tan head that quickly dissipates to a fine film and tan ring. Aroma of toasted dark malt, coffee, vanilla and hint of green bell peppers. Taste is a little rough at first, very light carbonation with flavors of coffee, vanilla, toasted dark malts and more green bell peppers. Finish has a slight alcohol metallic aftertaste with some vegetable character and a mild toasted malt finish.

Pours a pitch black color with a brown head. Aroma is of chocolate, coffee and lots of bourbon. Flavor is of a lot of bourbon but smoothed out by vanilla and chocolate flavors. This stuff is extremely viscus

This came from Eithcubes I believe, thanks for hooking me up with this tasty beverage man. Aromas of wood, oak, vanilla as characteristic of a bourbon aged beer. Alcohol bite at first but it gives way to a roasted malt, coffee, and most of all chocolate experience. You are left with a cocoa sort of sweetness on the back of the tongue. Tasty oak aged up front and chocolate on the finish. What more can you ask for from a style like this or beer in general?

A thick black substantial pour with perhaps the darkest hued head I have seen. Aroma of coffee beans, sweet chocolate, and roasted nut. Feel is thick and almost powdery. This is such a smooth beer. Flavors of coffee that is full of creamer, chocolate, bourbon, vanilla, and a smidge of hop all cascade to the side of the tongue. Alcohol warmth is felt but not tasted. This beer is just so easy to drink. It doesn’t overwhelm like some impy stouts but definitely awes one. As good as Founders Breakfast Stout is this one surpasses it. Oak aging does such wonderful things to a beer. This is an example. It makes a terrific beer GREAT!

Super dark pour with a small, near brown head that is gone in a flash and only leaves a thin galaxy swirl atop the beer and little if any lacing. The initial aroma is chocolate. That’s followed by mild coffee and definite bourbon. The flavor is chocolate with mild coffee and some nice bourbon. The bourbon melds nicely with the coffee and chocolate, but this beer isn’t as dramatic as regular breakfast stout IMHO. I found it to be a very drinkable, very well made beer that didn’t have the aggressive stance found in BS, it was more relaxed, more sophisticated. The mouthfeel was very nice and the alcohol didn’t assert itself at all.