Founders Deca

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

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

Sampled at a STL beer gathering. Pours clear bronze with a small tan head. The aroma has cinnamon, sweet caramel malt, anise, allspice, coriander, dark sugar and some smooth abv warmth that works well for this beer. Medium / thick body with a minor amount of carbonation. The flavor starts with brown sugar and caramel malt, minor spice in comparison to the aroma and the gentle alcohol warmth. The finish adds light medicinal traits, more anise, molasses, dark berries and a bit of a burn. A very well made, but overpriced, beer.

bottle at Fort Wayne tasting - Pours dark amber with a thin head. The aroma is of caramel malt and spice with some alcohol. The flavor includes roast caramel malt, dark fruit, and spices among other things. Some alcohol is slightly noticeable in the finish, but for 13% it’s pretty mild. It’s a tasty and complex beer, and just plain really good.

UPDATED: JUL 19, 2007 tap @ brewpub...aroma: sweet malt bill, ginger along with other dark fruits and spices, raisins.....appearance: dark caramel brown, thin white head that disappears quickly....taste: ginger, sweet and syrupy, sugary with raisins and very heavy on the malt. little to no hops

On tap at Founders 10th Anniversary Party. Realizing this beer turned some people off with its brashness and green nature, I still enjoyed it. Murky orange-brown body, topped by a medium creamy tan head. Aroma of sweet brown sugar and caramel, accentuated by ginger. Sweet, toasty body, with brown sugar and caramel, residual sugars and candy, and strong ginger notes. Green apple too. Alcohol was subdued (perhaps my palate was subdued, too). Creamy, dense palate. Sometimes the brash, young beers suit my palate perfectly, as this one did. I will revisit in a year or two after sampling a cellared bottle. Congratulations to Founders and their immense achievements over the past 10 years; I would have never predicted such success after sampling a few of their beers (which I did enjoy) for the first time in 2001.

Thanks askofficerfriendly for sharing this one at IBrew2or3’s going away party. Pours dark caramel with a white head. Nose is liquid caramel, with some esters, fruit, spices, and slight vegetal notes. Flavor is similar with spices, vegetal notes, caramel, and some yeasty esters. Interesting barley wine.

Tasted at the Carolina Crew gathering, Greenville - thanks to MrBendo? Copper pour with a thin head. Sweet spiced malts on the nose. medium bodied with flavors of; Citrus, brown sugar, and spice. Mace maybe

22oz Bottle. Oxidization and bug spray aroma. A bit of hops and grass. Some aged fruit. Pours a ruddy amber with orange fringe and a rim of white. Flavor is a bit of potatoes, ginger, and candy balls. There’s popcorn! Some serious celery seed. A weak ass imitation of Eccentric ale. Old tasting and it’s not even been a year. Salty, celery and old. Run away. Guess what this isn’t doing? Aging well. Thanks Sean!

Thanks to Bu11zeye for this.......This poured a cloudy brown with off white head, aroma and taste of sweet malt & toffee with very nice alcohol spice.....Has a full body with medium carbonation.....very good beer! Would like to have again.