Founders Breakfast Stout

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

Serve in Snifter

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution

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RATINGS: 1845 WEIGHTED AVG: 4.16 EST. CALORIES: 249 ABV: 8.3%

COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
You’ve got to love coffee to truly appreciate this phenomenal brew. Brewed with an abundance of flaked oats, bitter and sweetened imported chocolates, Sumatra and Kona coffee. We’re actually not sure if this is some type of coffee cake or a beer. Either way you can drink this ale with a fork. Breakfast Stout has an intense fresh roasted coffee nose toped with a cinnamon colored frothy head that seems to never fade and makes you wish breakfast could last forever.

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4.3

AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20

DTM (589) - Winters, California, USA - FEB 9, 2012

Shared bottle with Timfoolery. If you like coffee you’ll love this beer. Smooth on the palate with the taste of coffee. Maybe I should have one of these in the morning instead of a Starbucks.

3.9

AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20

potas (11) - Barcelona, SPAIN - FEB 9, 2012

Botella; Impresionante stout, cafe y chocolata dominan esta cerveza!!!!

4.8

AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20

EvilJason (7) - USA - FEB 8, 2012 does not count

This beer really live up to the name of "Breakfast Stout". It has wonderful coffee aroma as well as flavor with some breadiness and chocolate tones that make you feel as if you are having coffee and a chocolate french toast. This is a thick beast of a Stout and I driving 3 hours to pick up another 6 pack or 2 this weekend.

4.3

AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20

edgallow (164) - nashville, Tennessee, USA - FEB 6, 2012

UPDATED: FEB 10, 2012 12 oz bottled Pours a thick black with a light coffee colored tan head. Big coffee and chocolatey aromas. Smells delicious

4.1

AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20

freeofthoughts (198) - Raytown, Missouri, USA - FEB 4, 2012

UPDATED: FEB 5, 2012 Tap pours black worth khaki head. Aromas is strong of coffee, some dark rotated malt. The taste is big on coffee and heavy roasted malt. The brew has a little chocolate but the grain is roasted near burnt with a smooth oatmeal grain to mellow it. I would say it goes down easy but it takes some time too. Very earthy hopped and heavy on grain too. In the finish after the grain and coffee subdue there is a hint of yeasty fruity flavors, dark fruit that added just a little more depth to the beer.

4.6

AROMA 10/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20

Nimrod979 (167) - Hagerstown, Maryland, USA - FEB 4, 2012

12 oz bottled on 11/01/11. Pours a thick black with a light coffee colored tan head. Big coffee and chocolatey aromas. Smells delicious. Good god, this beer is like drinking a good cup o joe. Quite enough bitterness that it’s like drinking black coffee. Good chocolate and oat flavors coming through . Simply delicious. Just keeps getting better and better as it warms. Thick and full bodied. This beer is just a pleasure a to drink. I want one for breakfast.

3.8

AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20

Rrauth (12) - - FEB 3, 2012

One finger. Dark beer. Brown head. Excellent taste. Amazing lacing. Coffee aftertaste. Great beer. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

4.3

AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 18/20

winejab (4) - Ferndale, Michigan, USA - FEB 2, 2012 does not count

On tap. The aroma is of fresh ground coffee, remarkably so, in fact. The beer came with a one-finger head and produced good lacing. Chocolate and coffee are the predominant flavors. A truly well made beer. Very interesting and worth a try. I could actually imagine myself having one of these for breakfast.

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