Founders Breakfast Stout

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

Serve in Snifter

Aroma is coffee, chocolate and some roasted malts and molasses. Taste is coffee, bitter chocolate, molasses and thick oat. Lovely balanced and thick.

UPDATED: SEP 8, 2010 Poured into a snifter after an hour-long expedition across town to grab this. Great robust coffee and chocolate notes in the nose. Pours black with a nice tan head. Flavor is full-on unsweetened coffee, much less chocolate than in the nose. Really nice and full-bodied, goes down very smooth except for a slight hint of astringancy. I can see why this stout is so highly regarded, its simply delicious!

Very good beer. Enormous light brown head, just a tower of foam. The liquid is nearly wall-to-wall black. Some dark brown peeks around the corners. The aroma is rich with black coffee and chocolate. Some caramel sweetness is also evident. The flavor is good, but a bit sweet and sorta washed out compared to the aroma. The coffee seems to get in the way in taste, unlike aroma where the coffee blends well. It just ends a little blandly coffee bitter and overpowers the other flavors. The feel is creamy and very smooth. Although I very much enjoyed the beer, the whole isn’t quite greater than the parts.

Pours a deepest black with a thin, creamy mocha-colored head. The aroma is definitely coffee-centered, but the flavor combines the roasted and bitter coffee flavor with a subtle malt sweetness and the earthiness of the oatmeal. The overall experience is still very much like a blend of a good dry stout with some fresh brewed java, but with the combination being better than the sum of the parts. I find it to be not nearly as heavy as it looks or as its stats would indicate, and it is surprisingly smooth and dangerously drinkable.

On tap at brewery, pours a dark color with a nice thick tan head and wonderful lacing through out the glass, aroma is packed with coffee and chocolate, has a very thick and creamy taste that I could drink for breakfast any time, one of my favorites from Founders.

Bottle from a trade with phaleslu. Pours black with brown head. Awesome coffee aroma with roasted malts and chocolate. Tons of coffee flavor with sweet milk chocolate and roastiness. Full body with soft carbonation and a creamy mouhfeel. Nice. Thanks Peter.

A: snifter. pours dark brown that appears pitch black with a nice espresso foam colored head with a low retention rate as the head dissipates rather quickly. moderate lacing. S: massive aromas of roasted malts, coffee, bitter chocolate, some burnt toffee. strong hop aroma. T: huge roasted malt flavors, coffee and chocolate mostly. hints of black cherries in the back of the palate. definitely pulling some oatmeal, due to the smoothness of the beer. M: very smooth and full bodied. major roasted malt palate. dead on carbonation. D: very nice brew and an excellent Imperial Stout. Another fine brew from Founders, and its seriously good for breakfast. Serving type: bottle

Excellent beer. Heavy on the oatmeal and chocolate - hints of coffee (not overwhelming). Great balance - alcohol not overpowering.