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Beer Advent Calendar – Day 24: Founders Breakfast Stout presented by Beer Simple

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Beer Advent Calendar – Day 24: Founders Breakfast Stout presented by Beer Simple

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• Blogger: Chris Rausch from Beer Simple
• Website: http://beersimple.blogspot.com/

• Beer: Breakfast Stout
• Brewery: Founders Brewing Company
• Website: http://www.foundersbrewing.com/

Commercial Description:
The coffee lover’s consummate beer. Brewed with an abundance of flaked oats, bitter and imported chocolates, and Sumatra and Kona coffee, this stout has an intense fresh-roasted java nose topped with a frothy, cinnamon-colored head that goes forever.

Details:

• Style: Imperial Stout
• ABV: 8.3%
• IBU: 60

Why I selected the Breakfast Stout from Founders Brewing Company:

Founders Breakfast Stout is exactly what it says on the bottle. Double. Chocolate. Coffee. Oatmeal. Stout. Besides that, it’s creamy, luscious, and one of the most delicious beers you’ll ever have. Pour one into your favorite glass and you’ll immediately pick up a strong coffee aroma. The head is a deep tan color, almost like the froth on a nice hot chocolate. Taking a sip, you sort of get the chocolate first, dark but not too dark, like a 60% cacao chocolate bar. The coffee follows. It’s just a little bit sweet and finishes with an espresso-like bitterness. It’s not flat and thick like some really heavy stouts, rather it’s lighter in body than you might expect and pretty much perfectly carbonated.

Breakfast Stout isn’t a Christmas or holiday beer, but it doesn’t need to be. Why? Because I can’t get it in my home state of Maryland. I’ve been to North Carolina, Ohio, and Michigan to get it. When I have one, it makes my day into a holiday. If I had an endless supply, this would be my morning coffee. It’s great by itself any time of day, or good with pretty much any meal, or as a dessert or nightcap (as is the case as I type this), though I will say it is truly best with a classic breakfast… sausage, bacon, eggs, English muffin.

If you live where you can already get Breakfast Stout, chances are you’ve had it. But if you haven’t, make sure you do. And if you can’t get Founders in your state, take it from me, it’s worth a trip to find some. Just don’t make the mistake I made the first time I found it which was only buying one bottle.

About Beer Simple:
Chris started drinking craft beer before he was legally allowed to. Sick of the cheap swill brought to college parties, he was introduced to Sierra Nevada Stone, Dogfish Head, and Anchor by a friend’s older brother. He’s been hooked ever since. In 2009 he started BEERsimple as a way of documenting his beer experiences through his photography. Although steeped in the beer community around Maryland and D.C., Chris travels frequently to find craft beer he can’t get at home. http://beersimple.blogspot.com/

About Founders Brewing Company:
Mike Stevens and Dave Engbers both had steady jobs when they decided to chase their dreams and open a brewery–which meant writing a business plan, quitting their jobs, and taking out giant loans. They figured if you’re going to live life, you ought to live it hard, without regrets.

After some initial challenges, due to making well balanced but unremarkable beers, we were on the verge of bankruptcy. It was at this point that the original Founders team decided to brew the kind of beer that got them excited about brewing in the first place: complex, in-your-face ales, with huge aromatics, bigger body, and tons of flavor.
The Founders Family, a group of passionate beer enthusiasts, has grown around this simple philosophy: “We don’t brew beer for the masses. Instead, our beers are crafted for a chosen few, a small cadre of renegades and rebels who enjoy a beer that pushes the limits of what is commonly accepted as taste. In short, we make beer for people like us.”

We at Founders Brewing Company have been lucky to evolve into one of the highest recognized breweries in the United States. In 2011, Ratebeer.com ranked us as the 2nd best brewery in the world (up from 4th best in 2010), and we have several beers listed in the top one hundred beers of the world on Beeradvocate.com. We were the second fastest growing brewery in the U.S. in 2009, the winner of four medals at the 2010 World Beer Cup, and the winner of two medals at the 2010 Great American Beer Festival.
We are proud to be doing what we are doing, and we give great thanks to our many customers and credit to our staff for whom we continually work to reinvent and provide world-class beers.http://www.foundersbrewing.com/