DKML
Founders Brewing Co. in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Malt Liquor Rotating|
Score
6.95
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Imperial Malt Liquor Aged in Bourbon Barrels
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.
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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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
You had me at 14.2. And malt liquor that is barrel aged? What kind of bizarro world is this? The 12 oz bottle was acquired at my favorite beer retailer in the Petroplex. I release the cap from the bottle and take a smell direct. It gives a faint caramel and honey nose.I pour half into a heavy glass mug with a handle, a nice clear amber-tinged gold, a thin white head promptly maintained by a steady carbonation. Take a sniff to see if it changes things. Yes, a bit better and fuller. There is grain, alfalfa, hard candy. What can a drink bring? Much better than the scent. Malt, caramel, bread, a dollop of the bourbon, like no malt liquor I have had before. And a steady burn from the first drink until long after. Aimed at the high side of the low end. Mission accomplished.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2018
at 03:35
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
09.03.2018, tap @ Mikkeller Bar:
Small fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is sweet, mild bourbon, sugar, vanilla, light malts, caramel, hay, minerals, nuts, toast, toffee. Taste is slightly sweet and dry boozy, oak, mild bourbon, vanilla, caramel, minerals, bark, toast, weeds, grass, burnt sugar, hay. Medium to longlasting bitterness, slightly dry boozy mouthfeel. Nice.
Small fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is sweet, mild bourbon, sugar, vanilla, light malts, caramel, hay, minerals, nuts, toast, toffee. Taste is slightly sweet and dry boozy, oak, mild bourbon, vanilla, caramel, minerals, bark, toast, weeds, grass, burnt sugar, hay. Medium to longlasting bitterness, slightly dry boozy mouthfeel. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Mar 2018
at 23:07
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
330ml bottle. Pours dark orange with a medium head. Aroma is woody, minty bourbon. Taste has caramel to start. Bourbon and corn finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2018
at 22:01
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ Mikkeller Bar, Viktoriagade 8BC, kld., Copenhagen, Denmark DK-1655 [ As Founders DKML ].Light light unclear medium orange amber colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, bread, sweet malt, caramel, light alcohol - bourbon. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet with a long duration, bourbon - vanilla, sweet malt, bread, caramel, candy, rich malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. [20180308] 7-3-8-4-16
Tried
from Can
on 08 Mar 2018
at 15:55
10/10
Tried
on 08 Mar 2018
at 13:26
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
355ml bottle online from *ahem* Beerhawk. Pours pale golden with a slim white head. Aroma: heavy malty, boozy, toffee, floral. Taste: heavy malty, heavy sweet, light bitter, boozy as hell, toffee, caramel, oak. Medium bodied, light carb, sweet finish. Pretty full on, like a mega boozed up barley wine on steroids. Pass me the lemonade!
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2018
at 23:37
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Shrewsbury Beer Exchange Group meeting in Chez sophie on 20th Feb 2018; 355ml bottle from Paolo, cheers mate. Thin white head on the clear golden body. Boozy stuff, aroma had a malty molasses leaning, the taste also malty sweet; all the time the alcohol is showing, which I actually quite liked. Most likely the first American Malt Liquor I've had that didn't need to be drank on a park bench from a brown paper bag!
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Feb 2018
at 18:50
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
355ml bottle @ monthly tasting, Chez Sophie, Feb 18, thanks to Paolo! Pours clear gold, small white head. Aroma has quite a boozy hit. Taste is initially quite boozy, strong but is followed by a nice calming fruitiness that dispels any fears of a harsh alcohol afterburn. Pleasant and does not taste its strength.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Feb 2018
at 21:02
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours clear golden, nose is floral, toffee, vanilla, taste is sweet toffee, floral, caramel, oak, little grassy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Feb 2018
at 08:16
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle (from debierliefhebber.nl). Pours slightly hazy amber with whiteish head. Aroma is sweet, vanilla, grains, malt, corn. Flavor is sweet and bitter, malt, grains, bourbon, corn, caramel, vanilla. Finish is sweet and very boozy. Overall: drinkable, it's very sweet and very boozy...
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2018
at 19:02