DKML
Founders Brewing Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Malt Liquor Rotating|
Score
6.93
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Too Classy for a Paper Bag. Here you have what could be the first malt liquor worthy of a glass. Typically a slighted style, we thought we would class it up with a stay in the wood and a healthy dose of dry-hopping. A huge hit of corn gives this one a smooth sweetness while its time spent aging in bourbon barrels will give you reason to share. Be warned: this one will kick you where you most expect it.
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Holmen_1 (14481) reviewed DKML from Founders Brewing Co. 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Endelig er det mandag igjen, og seremonimester Melberg utskjenker i velkjent stil generøse mengder humørskapende styrkedråper. Mi2 er uten tvil Stavangers beste tilbud for ølnerder! 0,33 flasker, klar gyldent øl med fint skum som varer. en superfrisk versjon av barley wine, her finner jeg tørkede tropiske frukter, søte appelsiner, granskudd, vanilje, kokos og aprikoser. Lekker, fruktig bitterhet fra dry hopping. Dangerously drinkable. Jeg ser bare blide fjes rundt bordet, og praten går livlig.
Beertalk (16425) reviewed DKML from Founders Brewing Co. 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle from HJ Hansen. Hazy amber with a lasting white head. Big malty aroma of bread crust and biscuit with boozy notes of bourbon and dessert wine. Sweet malty flavour with bread, toffee and booze.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed DKML from Founders Brewing Co. 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
One of the key aspects of the American - and now global - craft beer movement is the reinvention of beer styles, as well as 'hybridizing' them to the point where they become unrecognisable as classic beer styles. Founders offers a textbook example with this beer: a malt liquor - one of the most appalling beer 'styles' of them all, the quintessence of America's downfall in beer quality in the decades up to the advent of craft beer and strongly associated with alcoholism and poverty - but aged in bourbon barrels, something the typical, industrial 'macro' producers of malt liquor, basically the American compeer of European strong lager but even worse in quality, much like American adjunct lager is the compeer of industrial European pale lager, would never even think of. Conceptually interesting idea and the first time I encounter malt liquor within the craft beer movement, but at the same time provoking suspicion as well... Medium thick, regular, mousy, thinly 'shred-lacing', slowly opening, off-white head on a cristal clear, warm amberish-tinged, 'metallic orange' blonde beer showing no visible sparkling; turns lightly misty and deeper amber with sediment added. Aroma instantly attacks the nose with strong boozy and solventy factors, it's effectively like opening a bottle of bourbon rather than a bottle of beer: Jack Daniels (or whatever brand the barrels came from) rules here, in its sweetness, 'corniness', varnish-like 'solventiness' and outspoken booziness, but gradually other elements unfold, including melting caramel candy, marmalade, honey cake, vanilla-like oak in a very 'clean' kind of way (as in e.g. calvados, which is the first scent springing to mind when sniffing this beer), subtle touch of dry cigarette tobacco somewhere. Notably sweet onset in a sugary, simple, non-fruity way, very honeyish and caramelly, soft carb with thick, vinous, almost syrupy mouthfeel; caramelly maltiness with indeed a lot of creamy, slick corn glides over the tongue with this sugary sweetness in its trail, dried by an increasing alcoholic heat, calvados-like initially but eventually necessarily shifting to outspoken bourbon. The wood is expressive as a vanilla-like oak effect retronasally plus drying tannins, but it is the booze that dominates most of this beer's flavour route, already heating in an early stage and eventually becoming harshly burning with all the solventy and astringent effects associated with it. Tastes almost like a true malt liquor, in itself already brutally boozy, with a shot of bourbon thrown in - but admittedly in a much more tasty way, with a more creamy 'body', less cheap metallic effects and so on. I guess this can indeed qualify as a malt liquor of above average quality, a barleywine-esque malt liquor as it were, but the bottom line for me is that it is way too boozy - I have physical difficulties downing an entire bottle, also because of its extreme ABV I guess, but my hatred for liquor probably plays a huge part in that so this is a very personal issue. Conceptually interesting, but malt liquor will always be malt liquor, I guess - this feels almost like a homeless person in an expensive suit, trying to look smart but unable to cover its depressing image. Nice attempt by Founders to try and upgrade one of the world's inherently saddest and worst beer styles, but for me this make-over does not quite work, I'm afraid. I'll have a KBS now please, thank you.
Scopey (25061) reviewed DKML from Founders Brewing Co. 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle picked up on the reduced aisle at Westhill SS. It pours hazy rich orange with a medium white head. The aroma is rich, perfumed, big vanilla character, bourbon action, oak, toasty grain, sponge cane and toffee. The taste is dry, bitter, boozy kick, raw, oak, leather, light tannin, cornbread, oily, bourbon, toffee, caramel shortbread, grassy, varnish and resin with a hot, raw finish. Full body and moderate, foamy carbonation. Big, punchy and hot. Fun turbo juice.
Tinus (5080) reviewed DKML from Founders Brewing Co. 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Clear amber golden colour, diminishing white head. Aroma of bourbon, malts, corn, alcohol, hops. Sweet malty flavour, bitter hops, sweet corn, vanilla. Quite alcoholic. Finish wood, vanilla, hops, caramel and sweet malts. It's a fun beer to try, and kudos for originality.
(from 75cL bottle @ our NJ hideout)
madmitch76 (40205) reviewed DKML from Founders Brewing Co. 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
6th October 2018
Hazy amber beer, small cream colour head. Smooth palate, semi dry, reasonable fine carbonation. Lighter than you would expect for the hefty abv. Soft malts, light creamy sweetness, little caramel. Smooth bourbon dominates the back end, very mild bourbon spice. Little fruity bourbon. Trace of woody bitterness. Smooth finish. Very nice bourbon delivery system. Light fruity bourbon linger. Effortlessly drinkable. Yeah - this could be ruinous!
pivnizub (12825) reviewed DKML from Founders Brewing Co. 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle (best before 4/18): Deep golden, a bit unclear, small white foamy layer; mild alcoholic and caramelly-malty nose, solid herbal-hoppy backbone; moderate to solid bitter-sweet flavour, full bodied - as expected, but not so soft; lingering bitter-malty and alcoholic finish with some fruity traces and some expensive vanilla. Well made sleeping pill...
Vignale (8348) reviewed DKML from Founders Brewing Co. 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Flaska från SB. Ljus bärnstensfärgad klar vätska i princip utan skum. Doft och smak främst av bourbon och smakar i princip som utspädd dålig bourbon men med mer majs och inslag av övermogna söta äpplen. Hyfsat balanserad sötma och sippbar men att dela 33 cl på fyra kändes ganska lagom. Ok+
CosmicCharlie (9609) reviewed DKML from Founders Brewing Co. 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Pours hazy dark gold into a snifter. Soapy white head with medium retention recedes leaving spider lacing. Vanilla and bourbon aromas. Medium bodied with sweet candy corn and hot vanilla upfront turning to sweet bourbon in the lasting finish. I feel a head rush off one sip, not sure if it's the alcohol or the sugar, but I like head rushes...
CLW (16720) reviewed DKML from Founders Brewing Co. 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
12 oz. bottle thanks to Willrunforbeer on the share. Clear golden color. Flavor of bourbon, caramel and maybe a light yeast. Full-bodied with plenty of bourbon. I guess you really can out any style beer in a bourbon barrel!!