Founders KBS (Kentucky Breakfast Stout)

Brewed by Founders Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Grand Rapids, Michigan USA

Serve in Snifter

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19.05.2013, 0,35l bottle @ home: Nice creamy cocoa colored longlasting head. Aroma is rich, sweet and roasted, coffee, lots of chocoate, caramel, bourbon, vanilla, dark sugar, some grass and oak. Taste is smooth and a little dry, coffee, cocoa, dark sugar, oak, alcohol, vanilla, caramel, grass, chocolate. A little dry mouthfeel, some warming alcohol, longlasting bitterness. Lovely stuff!

Great smell, body. Flavor is too much bourbon for my taste. Probably needs a couple years to achieve perfection, IMO. Prefer BB4d and Black Note due to smoother flavors.

Chocolate and whiskey aroma and heavy taste of each. Did i mention that it has a little bit of a whiskey taste (cold). That said KBS is a true thick stout. Little to no head on the draft pour. The coffee is very subtle compared to normal Breakfast Stout. The overall taste mellows a little bit as it warms. Much better warm...the layers are chocolate, coffee, bourbon.

Boozy whiskey nose, super chocalatey...taste of bourbon on the tongue. Powerful yet smooth. Slight coffee. More mealy than Bell’s Black making it more robust but not as smooth. Almost licorice with the booze.

Such smooth character that really comes through on the finish. The slightest hint of bourbon really adds to the complexity

Pours a deep, dark black with a thin brown head. Smells of molasses, malts, chocolate, and bourbon. Palate is incredible. Drink the beer slowly as the tastes change as it warms. Everything from coffee, malts, bourbon, to dark chocolate. Absolutely fantastic taste and palate!

Doesn’t get much better than this. Roast, chocolate, and coffee all throughout the aroma and flavor. Body is big, very well attenuated. Once a beer gets this dark in color I’m not sure it retains enough complexity in the visual to garner a perfect score in that category, just a personal hang up I suppose. This is a beer all should try. Drank one now, will be drinking one in a year or two as well.

Great beer yes I gave it a perfect rating. Is this way overrated now that I’ve tried it....yep. No beer is worth selling your liver which is what I practically had to do in order to get some of this. If you’ve tried Central Waters Brewers Reserve it’s basically the same thing. KBS is just a touch more chocolaty.

Believe the hype. This beer is freaking awesome. The beer pours a motor oil black with a orangish brown mild head, which dissipates quickly. The aroma is mild with notes of chocolate, vanilla, and coffee. The beer laces very well due to its high ABV. First flavors noticed are vanilla and chocolate with a nice bourbon barrel aged heated mouthfeel. As the beer warms up the coffee flavors are much more intense. It actually tastes like someone poured a few tablespoons of dark coffee into this beer while it was sitting in the glass. If you like barrel aged stouts, you will love this beer. It’s wicked. I’ve had the old rasputin barrel aged 750 ml and I would rather have this one any day. That beer has a higher ABV but this one is more intensely flavored. Quality stuff.

Draft poured jet black with a caramel color head. Semi sweet aroma. Initially sweet on the tongue, then a full Bourbon flavor. Cannot wait to have this again.