Founders Breakfast Stout

So, we're working our way through that aforementioned five-pack, and there was some discussion over which way to go. Nathan's comment when I mentioned this: "It's a killer." Great description, as it's the Ted Bundy of beers. We've been hopped up all night; I figured this would be a good balance to eviscerate my palate. You may now picture my entrails dangling from my tongue. Perhaps this would have been a better review for Sunday, when we watch the season finale of "Walking Dead", but it's already in the glass now, and that would just be craft beer abuse, which is tantamount to a federal felony in our house.

As Nathan mentioned just after pouring, it's just Breakfast Stout, not the CBS or KBS, which is due to be released later this month. KBS is Breakfast Stout aged in Kentucky bourbon barrels. It's often ranked among Founders best beers on BeerAdvocate and RateBeer and the ilk. I like to consider it as the One That Started It All. It's also one of the first stouts I truly enjoyed.

It pours as black as my soul, with a coffee-colored head that doesn't stick around. When I put my nose into it, I want to die of happiness. It's coffee, some chocolate, and more coffee. When I drink it, it's coffee, chocolate, more coffee, heaven in my mouth, and a couple of other things I can't quite put my finger on, but definitely all malty in nature. Yet it's lighter in body than any other oatmeal stout I've had, or even Guinness Draught. Wait, there it is, on the back end, that heavy feeling of oatmeal stout. Apparently it's brewed with flaked oats, bitter and sweetened imported chocolate, and Kona and Sumatra coffees, two of my favorite coffee regions, probably because they're also black as my soul. That's according to BeerAdvocate. All I know is that I want to be buried with a bottle. Or a keg of it. Or better yet, since I'm not into that whole worms eating my remains thing, preserve me in a keg of this. Not quite sure how the logistics of that would work, but they're pretty smart up there in Grand Rapids. I'm sure they can figure it out.

Oh, there's also the mouthfeel, which is velvety, and then the 8.3% alcohol bite kicks in. It also gets very sweet on the back end of the taste, but it's not overwhelming. Seriously, guys, find a way to fit my body into a keg. Or at least my ashes. 

Sorry for the morbidity. I must be more pissed than I thought that "The Americans" wasn't on tonight.

5/5 caps

-Jennie

Well, Jennie, you just made your review about as dark as this brew is in color. In case you didn't catch what Jennie was grimly stating, this is a dark beer that's aroma is coffee. This is a coffee drinker's brew. The dark, spiraling ride of this brew is coffee, bitter dark chocolate, coffee, with some faint hints of dark fruits that quickly turn a new leaf to the slight oatmeal back. The 8.3 % really isn't noticed, to me at least, but the mouthfeel is like drinking a cup of black coffee with some stickiness toward the back. Coffee, coffee, coffee. How many more times can this be stated? Just go and purchase some. It's available in 4 packs for around $12 dollars, and this year, I've noticed it's more widely available (I've seen it at Kroger and Giant Eagle, instead of just the more Craft Beer oriented stores like Weiland's, Savor, Palmer's, well, you get the hint).

And as Jennie mentioned the Walking Dead, I just happened to find a marathon of said show. Shane was a dick and deserved to die. Maybe I try to find something special for the season finale (like Full Pint's Night of the Living Stout), but as She Who Has Lady Parts stated, I cannot purchase more until we get through these reviews. We have it manageable now, and with the three day weekend due to some rabbit that shits chocolate, we'll have more than ample time to do so. I seem to be rambling, but that's what good beer will do to you.

5/5 caps

-Nathan-