Founders Deca

Formerly brewed at Founders Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

Thanks pantanap for this one. It pours darkbrown with no head. The mouthfeel is sticky, thick and the flavor has notes of toffee and raisins. The aroma is musty. Interesting brew.

Happy Tenth Anniversary, Founders! Many more!
Even an aggressive pouring doesn’t raise much of a head over this hazy brown ale. Less than a finger of creamy ecru suds appears, then soon becomes an incomplete ring around the glass. The aroma is toffee and heavy spicing, ginseng and ginger and a shake or two of pepper. It tastes even sweeter, rich toffee and some caramel & buttescotch, tempered by a lot of spices, some aniseed being added to what was previously noted. Pretty good, but I doubt I’ll be repeating it.

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Thanks Chuck for acquiring this overly expensive beer. The beer pours to a really dark mahogany body with a thin dense creamy light-beige head and nice lacing. The aroma is very strong with tons of sweet caramel and toffee with lingering sugary sweetness and grassy and weed hops. The flavors are really, really strong. Extreme caramelized sugars, sweet toffees and nougats, and an odd overpowering spiciness. Extremely rich, sticky, full bodied and really warming. Too much of everything going on in this beer. Removal of the spices might actually produce a nice Scotch ale?

dark pour w/ a thick almost oily appearing tan head w/ some nice thick lacing. Aroma is well spiced definite ginger some light peppers definite alcohol a light caramel sweet piece a light anise and smoke. Full well coated creamy palate. Very sweet flavor, lots of brown sugar and caramel some light peppers and ginger, very nice, toffees and alcohol. Good stuff, but has a ton of stuff that almost detracts... Yet I enjoyed.

Bottle kindly shared by Chuck. Dark brown body under a light tan head. Brown sugar and clovey nutmeg in the aroma. Huge sweet flavor on this guy - condensed, caramelized brown sugar, light pepper and nutmeg, finishing with fennel seed hop bitterness. Big flavors but it’s just big for bigness’ sake - BFD.

MBGF07. Hazy dark amber with a small beige head. The aroma is moderately sweet, vinous and spicy with caramel, toffee, and berry. The flavor is moderately sweet and floral with caramel, herbs, light pepper and ginger. Medium/full body is soft with light carbonation. Had this again out of a bottle and it was much sweeter than I remembered and would have rated a bit lower than this.

Expensive ass bottle from Capones. Sampled with stegosaurus. Coppery /brown pour with off white head.Spice and brown sugar aroma. Sugar, alcohol and caramel taste. Blended rather well. The cerimonial hump of the bottle was done.

Shared by kmweaver. Strange beer. Clear (filtered?) medium dark red and orange toned body. Huge nose of sherry, rose petals, chili and floral spices. Palate is light, elevating, highly alcoholic but not heavy up front. Turns to bitter and biting across the middle, before finishing ridiculously sweet and overbearing, nearly making my face cringe. Sticky, rich and sweet, spiced with grapefruit flavored ginger and sugary rose pedals. I thought I was going to have to pour mine out, but with some tobacco the sweetness was cut into very well, and it ended up complimenting the smoke much more than stout or hopped barley wine did.