Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS)

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

12oz bottle(courtesy of Hopscotch)-Pitch black body with a nice small tan head and an aroma of coffee, bourbon, chocolate, and slight vanilla. Taste begins with vanilla then bourbon and follows with some chocolate and slight alcohol. This full bodied brew is very well balanced. Great tasting. Awesome.

Pitch black with a quickly receding mocha head. Aroma of oak, vanilla, light smoke, and coffee. Tastes of bourbon, vanilla, coffee, red wine, pepper and spice. Mouthfeel is heavy with soft carbonation and noticeable alcohol.

From the notch on the front label, I’m guessing that this was bottled in late 2006, from a stubby twist-off 12 oz. bottle, sampled at room temperature in a snifter. Poured a syrupy blackish dark coffee brown with a frothy, creamy, bubbly topped brown head, good retention, small amount of laced sticking. Big earthy expresso nose with milk chocolate, vanilla, a subtle sweet fruitiness, a pronounced green oak woodiness, and a light charcoal. Good even moderate carbonation and a crisp, dryish, silky slick, creamy smooth, airy, full bodied mouthfeel. A pleasant sipper, earthy expresso and coffee beans, grainy, caramel, green wood, hints of charred embers and oily smoke, vanilla, the alcohol is well masked and provides a low warmth in the palate, the hops are buried and soft, and a dry bitter coffee and licorice finish. This is pretty good, but for the price and taste, I think I prefer the regular Breakfast Stout.

Bottled, Dusseldorf gathering. Alot going on here, alot of flavors, Chocolate, coffee, vanilla, bourbon, anis, abit over the top, a great brew, but intense, not for the faint of heart or palate,

Black with a medium tan head, moderately dissipating. Aroma of chocolate, vanilla, sugar, coffee, some oak and moderate bourbon. Taste of bourbon, coffee, light chocolate, roasted malt and some saltiness. Smooth and finishes up a bit roasty with some bourbon and warming effects. I like it better than I did the first time, but I still prefer the original breakfast stout.

At Three Cellars tasting Founder’s Brewery night. Very dark brown with thin light brown head. Smells of bourbon & coffee. Taste of overpowering bourbon & some coffee. Kind of sticky & tastes a little too much like bourbon (yuck). Over-rated, IMO.

thanks to the BA wednesday night tasting and the countless numbers of RBer’s that have sent me a bottle... black colored beer with a long lasting brown head (orange tints). it slowly disappears to a film leaving behind some spotty lace and stays there for the remainder. the aromas of fresh coffee and chocolate hit me just before a light note of bourbon and it’s woody caramel sweetness. there’s also smells of dry bitter herbs akin to licorice root skins and malt ashiness. the bourbon is so well integrated into the flavor of this. most times it ends up boozy and over powering. so, this is special... the palate is only slightly sweet and bourbon-y with the aroma played over into the flavor. chocolate, coffee and vanilla are combined with a bitterness throughout the whole experience. body is medium and the mouth feel is nothing special with the exception that it is light enough to drink an insane amount of this nectar...