Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle, 2021 vintage. Coffee aroma with notes of chocolate, lactose sugar, vanilla, bourbon and oak flavors. Pours deep brown with a thin mocha brown head that has some retention and a thin ring of lacing. Starts with rich chocolate, lactose sugar and oak flavors as well as having a rich, full body and silky smooth mouthfeel. Finishes quite smooth with coffee, vanilla and bourbon flavors. Excellent.
willisread (9761) ticked CBS (2025) from Founders Brewing Co. 3 months ago
KevinReddirt (2121) reviewed DKML (2025) from Founders Brewing Co. 3 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
I was happy to learn Founders was re-releasing DKML. The 2017 version was and is the best malt liquor I have tasted. And I do have some experience with the style, a blessing or a liability I am not sure. I found a four pack at a mom-and-pop liquor store in Santa Fe recently and have held off drinking one until I am ready to do a rating. The same taste as the original version? I have no idea what the plan is with the brewer. Meanwhile I have a 12 oz bottle significantly cooled off and ready to go into a glass. Very much your normal beer appearance, I see a clear gold with some red to it in the body and a slender skim of white foam to decreases to a ring around the glass. Plenty of carbonation. I smell grain, bit-of-honey candy and some barrel effect. And now a drink. I believe the taste is similar if not the same as it was several years ago and this is a good thing of course. Grain, bourbon, a candy sweetness, malt, some oak and a small bitterness completing. The mouth feel is quite full, a lot of depth, well done in my opinion. This beer remains the best malt liquor of all time with number 2 way, way behind. Congrats to Founders for bringing this one back and not thinking they had to change it up. I call this a powerful, tasty, fulfilling beer. It was worth the wait.
patrick767 (7169) reviewed DKML from Founders Brewing Co. 3 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Pours clear gold. Small white head. Smells of bourbon and booze. Flavor is sweet with caramel, oak, bourbon, grain, and booze.
obguthr (12465) reviewed KBS Iced Latte from Founders Brewing Co. 3 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Dark roast coffee, wormwood, vanilla nose. Clear amber, medium cream colored head. Sweet coffee, vanilla. Medium body, warm.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Golden pour. Thick foamy head. Flavor of coffee, cocoa, and vanilla with bourbon notes. Medium bodied and medium carbonation
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 7.5
355ml bottle. Almost opaque, darkest brown colour with small to average, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, dark beige head. Sweet-ish, slightly toasty and nutty, caramel malty and minimally woody aroma, notes of caramel, dark caramel, hints of toasted nuts, a touch of Bourbon, whiffs of old, dark wood. Taste is sweet-ish, caramel malty, toasty and minimally nutty, dark malty, bitter hoppy and minimally woody, notes of dark caramel, hints of toasted nuts, a touch of Brazil nut, burnt caramel, Bourbon, some roasty bitterness as well; lingering, minimally warming, alcoholic finish, very well hidden alcohol overall.
Oily to viscous texture, smooth and soft, slightly greasy palate, fine, soft to flat carbonation.
Very good mouthfeel, homogeneous, smooth, well hidden alcohol, but also a tad monotonous - okay-ish sipper with a tendency to become boring before emptied.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
3 week old can
A: Clear reddish amber with a tall tan head. End of glass retention and sheet lacing.
S: Sweet orange zest, caramel and toasted bread.
T: Bitter and piney with citrus zest and pith. Woody and caramel notes round out the sip.
M: Medium light with soft carbonation and a smooth oatsy texture.
O: Really nice red IPA. A great alternative to Celebration IMO.
Maverick (5074) ticked KBS Iced Latte from Founders Brewing Co. 3 months ago