Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout

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

12oz handbottle courtesy of ygtbsm94. Thanks for sharing, Brad! Black, tan creamy head. Complex dark roast coffee aromas are well layered over swirls of vanilla-maple oak and black chocolate cream. Soft burnt coffee, bittersweet chocolate and sweet maple fudge flavors rest on a light wooden foundation from start to finish. Medium bodied and smooth, cask-like carbonation, sweet maple coffee finish. This seriously needs to be considered for future bottling as a seasonal…

Thanks to ditmier for sharing this hand bottled brew. pours out black topped with a nice brown head. Aroma was very nice plenty vanilla, coffee, and wood. Taste much like the aroma but with some bitter choclate.

Draft at Brouwer’s during Seattle Beer Week. Black with dark brown creamy head. Bourbon oak aroma. Smooth blend of chocolate, roast, bourbon, and sweet bacon (really? I guess...it’s in my notes...). Moderate alcohol burn. Mild bitter finish. Beautiful aroma.

12oz handbottle from wetherel shared at the socal sour tasting, this was an epic handbottle that really brought out a lot. Pours black with a light brown head. Nose is sweet with interesting varied notes. Taste is sweet mapely wow, really a damn epic imperial stout.

12oz handbottle from pwoods. Huge thanks Patrick! Excellent condition. A little smoke. Lightly sweet. Mellower than regular breakfast stout. I can’t notice the maple. Very good.

On tap at Brouwers Stout Festival this past spring. I can’t imagine having one at the ass-crack of dawn, but maybe the first one of the day. Coffe and maple syrup flavors make the breakfast angle.

On tap at Churchkey, Washington DC. Pours an opaque, oily black with a huge creamy, lacing tan head. BIG nose, maple syrupy, brown sugar, candy, woody, a touch of coffee. Close your eyes, take a sniff and it smells like butter melting over pancakes. Flavor starts with coffee bitterness, molasses, dark fruits, a weird cherry-like sourness, brown sugar, wood pulp, booze, coffee with cream. Wet, oily, sour finish. While the aroma is one of the best I’ve ever experienced on a beer, the rest of the beer is a bit over hyped. There may also be some lingering infection as the sour cherry notes are definitely not supposed to be there.

(draft) Large tan head atop black body with brown edges. Aroma is sweet, maple, caramel, some chocolate, some alcohol. Taste is sweet, maple, some chocolate, caramel, alcohol, light coffee. Smooth medium-full body. Very good, but the sweetness makes it hard to drink a full serving.