Founders Deca

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

22 oz bottle - fairly cloudy dark amber color with tiny light tan head. Aroma is full of thick chewy malts, loads of roasted caramel, dark fruits with a ton of dates, figs, raisens, fair amount of light oak, hint of cinnamon, cherry, and vanilla. Flavor is extremely malty, lots of highly kilned malts, oak, hints of raisens, vanilla. Finish is fairly sweet. Overall an excellent brew, although it seems more like an old ale than a spice/herb/vegetable.

Amber color beer with a thin beige head. Creamy mouthfeel. Lightly cinnimon spice in the nose with some caramel sweetness. Malty beer with cinnimon, nutmeg, caramel corn and some nuttiness. Really well balanced beer. Very tastey.

Bottle shared by Crosling. Poured a nice amber-garnet color with a thin beige head that diminished immediately. Sweet, malty aroma with some brown sugar and light fruit. Sweet brown sugar and caramel malt, with a slight apricot fruity undertone and a hint of yeastiness and some alcohol heat. Full on the palate, but not cloying. A really nice, different beer. Thanks for sharing Nick.

Bomber. Thanks, CaptainCougar! Pours lightly hazy ruby-brown. Huge malty brown sugar aroma. Full body and light carbonation. The taste is just a nutty malt explosion. Lightly spicy finish.

Bomber. Thanks, BitBucket! Deep grainy brown with caramel highlights. Headless, laceless, just a bit of grey film for a head. Huge roast, caramel, and toffee nose. Smells like candy bars being baked. Body’s big, but not sticky or oily. Toast, nuts, caramel, toffee on the mid-palate. Long nutty finish.

Pours a very thin white head that quickly dissipates into a clear medium brown body. Aroma of malt and alcohol. Sweet & fruity with very low carbonation. Alcoholic.

This is a strange bird. First off, it tastes like Speedway, but is an Herb/Veggie. Very odd. Second, it has a finish that’s distinctly beetish in trace amounts. But unusually like a stout.

22 oz. brown bottle, the ABV is listed as 13% in the lower left hand corner of the label, sampled in a snifter. L: Woody amber with a thin pale tan head of sudsy foam that settled into a bubbly ring, fair amount of splotchy lace dots circle the glass. S: Caramel, toffee, toasted grains and biscuits, dates, figs and raisins, hints of earthy nuts and spices, this has a rich malt and yeast profile. The hops are there in equal measure, citrus and lavender minty. The alcohol has an estery solvent quality. F&T: Syrupy malty body that is give some light creaminess from the carbonation. Rich tasting malts and yeast with a robust hoppiness, there is no denying that this is a big American ale. Clove flavored licorice, caramel toffee, hints of cocoa, raisin bread and dates, with an raw earthy nuttiness coming out in the end. Delectable hop tastes of grapefruit and pineapple, oily pine needles and minty, flowery herbs. The hops become mildly spicy in the finish, helping to dry out the sweet malty finale. The alcohol has a noticeable fruity, spicy warmth in the palate, but it’s true strength is well concealed. This is dangerously easy to drink, making this a cautious sipper. This is now my favorite release from Founders, an excellent and highly enjoyable beer.