Founders Breakfast Stout - Founders Brewing Company

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rAvg: 4.52
pDev: 9.51%
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Brewed by:
Founders Brewing Company

Michigan, United States

Style | ABV
American Double / Imperial Stout | 8.30% ABV

Availability: Fall. bottle (2530), on-tap (270), growler (39), nitro-tap (5), cask (1).

Notes:
Brewed with flaked oats, bitter and sweetened imported chocolates, Sumatra and Kona coffee.
60 IBU
Released on Sept. 1, 2010.

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Reviews by ABisonEgo:

ABisonEgo

Illinois

4.23/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5

2011 bottle (side by side tasting with 2012 kbs)

Appearance - Everything an imperial stout should be: pitch black, 1 finger tan head (which dissipates very fast, and opaque. Some alcohol lacing, but not a lot.

Aroma - Chocolate and coffee up front. Pretty much dominates the beer. Roasted malts make their presence known, but dark chocolate and coffee take over. there is almost a slight vanilla aroma as well

Taste - coffee nips this one in the bud. starts off with the coffee flavor and quickly turns into dark chocolate; just like the aroma. roasted malts lend a hand in the overall balance of the beer, which has the slightest of hops present. No alcohol present at all

Mouthfeel - right on point. creamy as can be, little carbonation, heavy on he palate. really completes the beer. the oats call for a creamy imperial stout

Overall - solid imperial stout. for being a chocolate, coffee, oatmeal beer, this really brings all of those to the table. the oats with the creaminess, the coffee up front, and he dark chocolate that rounds out the beer. such a solid beer and cant be beat for a winter seasonal

Serving type: bottle

10-16-2012 02:40:21 | More by ABisonEgo

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jkeefe1800

Massachusetts

4.75/5 rDev +5.1%

05-25-2013 04:51:31 | More by jkeefe1800

dbfp210

Pennsylvania

4.25/5 rDev -6%

05-24-2013 20:21:40 | More by dbfp210

hopluva1

Washington

4.25/5 rDev -6%

05-24-2013 18:26:06 | More by hopluva1

Bigtwin

Michigan

4.5/5 rDev -0.4%

05-24-2013 18:23:23 | More by Bigtwin

wezzul

Michigan

4.25/5 rDev -6%

05-24-2013 16:36:08 | More by wezzul

robertmitchum

North Carolina

4/5 rDev -11.5%

05-24-2013 09:16:43 | More by robertmitchum

SwG237

New York

4.5/5 rDev -0.4%

05-24-2013 03:52:14 | More by SwG237

WKole81

Illinois

4.5/5 rDev -0.4%

05-24-2013 03:02:33 | More by WKole81

Jeremy_H

Illinois

4.5/5 rDev -0.4%

05-24-2013 01:50:06 | More by Jeremy_H

berserka

Rhode Island

4.5/5 rDev -0.4%

05-24-2013 01:39:50 | More by berserka

tvl89

Texas

5/5 rDev +10.6%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

Served from a bottle at around 55 degrees. This is my first founders breakfast stout so my expectations were really really high. Oh god I wasn't disappointed at all! The appearance is just like a typical imperial stout; pitch black with a decent head that dissipates in about 3 minutes. The smell is just awesome, coffee, heavy chocolate, roasted malts and more chocolate. The taste is just like the smell very delicious, very creamy. The first flavor you palate detects is the rich coffee, followed by tons and tones of dark chocolate, ending in a pleasant bitterness. This could be perhaps the best Russian stout out there. I highly recommend!

Serving type: bottle

05-24-2013 01:26:46 | More by tvl89