Founders Deca

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

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

Blind tasting at Papsoes place, another great session, thanks Henrik! Beer #24: Pours hazy redish with a fully diminished off white head. Light spiced and woody hops aroma. Flavour is sweet fruity with a light woody hops touch. Light caramel malt note. Sweet malt finish with a light bitterness.

Murky Amber hazy brown in color, small lacig thin head almost off white. Aroma kid of sweet maybe spicey taste very mild sweet/ a hint of a bitterness kind of a small amounts of must and dirt.

Pour is hazed murky amber brown with a thin almost nonexistent tan head...smell is lightly spicy and sweet with hints of chocolate (not in the roasty way, but in the sweet way....like carob)...and alcohol...taste is sweet, very sweet...earthfruits, yeast, alcohol...also very musty....I have not found that young musty beers turn into anything other than dirty cardboard over time....I have no doubt that this will be any different...

Amber to red in color with a slight head. Sweet in the aroma with maltiness, little fruitiness. Thicker body. Light fruitness in the taste and maltiness in there.

(Bottle) Pours a cloudy deep amber-brown body with a spare beige head. Aroma of lightly sour Belgian yeast, white grape, toffee, biscuit, some floral, and cherry. Flavor of hot rum, sour fruit, apple, toffee, and butterscotch. The excessive alcohol bite takes a way from the flavor.

Rating #100 for Deca! Bottle. As I pop the cap after cellaring this for a while in the basement, I’m pretty excited to see what this one is all about. Aromas are immediately satisfying and reminiscent of some of the better barley wines I’ve tried... you know, that thick, sweet sticky smell from too much brown sugar and candi sugar and maybe a touch of molasses. There is also a bit of a peppery hint and some nice fruit like figs and dates. More than a little excited, I go for the first sip... my initial reaction is pure enjoyment as the warming and sweet flavors roll around... wishing it weren’t so dang expensive and more available. I’ve still got one in the cellar and I’m thinking that I won’t be sharing. Then, out of the blue I’m hit by some sort of vegetable gunk aftertaste... eech! It’s just in the way and doesn’t really go with the rest of the flavors or the mouthfeel or anything. Fortunately, it seems to get better as the beer warms a bit and breathes. Finishes out nicely... I wish I had polished this off in the dead of winter.

Bottle courtesy of bdigi66 at Fort Wayne Winter Gathering.Small tan head that mostly diminished, virtually no lacing, transparent, no carbonation observed, and a garnet hue. Nose was brown sugar, malty, caramel, spicy, and some alcohol. Flavor was sweet, malt, caramel, brown sugar, spicy and vinuous.Mouthfeel was mostly smooth and medium in body.Very quaffable, nicely balanced, would drink again, and worthy of a try.More please!

This bottled brew from bdigi66 at a rating party poured a medium sized head of foamy fine to medium sized light brown colored bubbles that were mostly lasting and left behind a transparent dark ruby red brown colored body and a fair lacing. The mild aroma was hoppy malty vinous and sweet. smooth with a mellow vinous aftertaste. The flavor contained notes of malt hops and vinous. A decent one that I would consider having again.