Founders Furniture City Stock Ale

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: Brown Ale
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Shaker

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750mL thanks to the DC crew. Pours a clear, deep red. Tan foam with good, rocky retention and webby lacing. Nose is sticky, Twizzlers, hazelnut, pepper, coffee. Taste is bitter coffee, peppercorn, chili pepper heat. Palate is thinner, tangy, sharp bitter chocolate and coffee. Very interesting and enjoyable. I guess a coffee brown ale. Nice.

750mL Bottle. Thanks Sean! Clean, malty aroma, with toast, caramel, and brown sugar. Flavors dole out similar lightly brown maltiness. This is clean, somewhere between an Amber and a Brown and I think a reasonable interpretation of what a relatively low-hop rustic malt beer would have been. It’s easy drinking, richly flavored, and easy to enjoy.

Grainy, bready, toasted specialty malts. Nice yeast strain. The beer is a bit thin and sterile overall though.

Pours a coppery brown with a foamy head. Weak aroma. Flavor is malty with some dark fruits. Not as sweet as I’d expected. And, not hoppy. Pretty dry overall. Good beer. The 6.7% abv ticks it up a notch. Not a home run, though.

Nice dark brown with a light colored foam. Malty aroma, very minimal. Nice malt forward taste. Deep but not woody. Maybe a bit of chocolate. Well carbonated. Overall a very good brown ale. More beer please...

bottle. brown with small head. brown ale, but slightly fruity as well. hint of nuts. not sure what I was hoping for, but this is somewhat underwhelming, though certainly not bad.

Bottle. Deep coppery body, thick puffy tan head. Malty nose with toffee, tobacco, grapeskin, toast, and hints of chocolate. Sweet body, toasty, nutty, and a tad leathery, with grapeskin, cocoa, toffee, and tobacco, even some roasty elements. The beer finishes somewhat tannic and bitter. Smooth and creamy. A malty departure for a hophead’s brewery, and pleasant to drink.

Pours a deep drown with off white head. Nose and taste are earthy and dry. Not sweet enough to be an old ale, to complex to be a brown. Fitting. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Dark amber colored pour with an off-white head. Toffee and dark fruit notes with some roasted malt, chocolate, and leather. Somewhat watery, a bit of toasted nuts, and some toast. Sort of a bland, watery flavor. Toffee and toasted malt sweetness, some chocolate, cocoa powder, and a hint of roast. A weird leathery quality, hints of dark fruit, and some toasted nuts. A rare miss from Founders.

22 oz. bottle. Dark brown pour with a minimum head. Aroma of rich brown malts, mild oatmeal, slight tobacco and leathery notes. Smells nice. Flavor is dry and leathery. Lots of brown malts, rye bread, some crackers. Lots of dark bread. Quite nice. Nice, full mouthfeel, good, complementary carbonation. Finishes dry and leathery. Nice beer.