KBS (2017)
(Batch of KBS)
Founders Brewing Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Spring Out of Production|
Score
8.12
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A Flavored Stout Brewed with Chocolate and Coffee and Aged in Oak Bourbon Barrels
What we’ve got here is an imperial stout brewed with a massive amount of coffee and chocolates, then cave-aged in oak bourbon barrels for an entire year to make sure wonderful bourbon undertones come through in the finish. Makes your taste buds squeal with delight.
What we’ve got here is an imperial stout brewed with a massive amount of coffee and chocolates, then cave-aged in oak bourbon barrels for an entire year to make sure wonderful bourbon undertones come through in the finish. Makes your taste buds squeal with delight.
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8/10
Z kranu. Duzo lepszy niz zeszloroczny, wanilia, cialo, czekolada, ulozony, beczkowy, ryli klasa, gwiazdki z plusem
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Chmielarnia Marszałkowska
on 21 Jul 2017
at 20:15
9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 9
20/01/2024: 355ml bottle again, bought at the same time as my original rating below (never did drink it the following Christmas as I intended). Still really impressed by this despite being 7+ years past its BBD. I think the coffee has faded a little but there's still enough here to warrant being styled as a "coffee stout", plenty of chocolate, bourbon, vanilla too. As of 2025 I don't think I'd rate it quite so highly as I did back then but even so its longevity is impressive.
16/04/2017: 355ml bottle at 11.9% ABV. Pours black with a tan head, surprisingly good retention for the ABV. Aroma is very rich - chocolate, roasted coffee, vanilla, bourbon oaky notes and alcohol. Taste is also rich and complex, lovely sweet chocolate and bitter roasted coffee flavours, big hit of vanilla, nice oaky bourbon notes and a lovely warming sensation given by the alcohol, treacle, biscuity malt, some dark fruit. Full bodied, soft carbonation, lovely silky smooth mouthfeel. This is a fantastic beer. It gets a ton of hype and I think it just about lives up to it. I have another bottle of this which I will age and drink later in the year, probably at Christmas, we’ll see if it gets better...
16/04/2017: 355ml bottle at 11.9% ABV. Pours black with a tan head, surprisingly good retention for the ABV. Aroma is very rich - chocolate, roasted coffee, vanilla, bourbon oaky notes and alcohol. Taste is also rich and complex, lovely sweet chocolate and bitter roasted coffee flavours, big hit of vanilla, nice oaky bourbon notes and a lovely warming sensation given by the alcohol, treacle, biscuity malt, some dark fruit. Full bodied, soft carbonation, lovely silky smooth mouthfeel. This is a fantastic beer. It gets a ton of hype and I think it just about lives up to it. I have another bottle of this which I will age and drink later in the year, probably at Christmas, we’ll see if it gets better...
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2017
at 16:54