"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."
The beer itself is very dark in appearance and when held up to the light, the light has no chance in the slightest of coming through. The head is quite dense as is the norm with many of my favorite beers and as it slowly leaves the glass there is still a ring of dense foam at the top. The head itself is, in my opinion more milk chocolate in color and by saying its cinnamon colored as the description says lead my to hope for a slight cinnamon taste somewhere in the brew but sadly there was none.
The aroma is very much that of coffee with a subtle hint of oatmeal. No chocolate in the smell nor hops (Thank God) just a good deal of coffee and oatmeal. And with the first sip its nothing but oatmeal at first roasted oatmeal verging with a hint of coffee. That is until the finish where the chocolate is bumped up a few notches and the coffee gets turned up to 11.
All in all it took me a little bit to warm up to the beer. I am a huge fan of stouts but oatmeal stouts not so much nor with too much coffee. That being said after about two-thirds through the bottle I started to warm up to it a bit or that could have been the ABV 8.3%.
Highly recommended to those of you who enjoy a heavy beer that hits you like a meal and very much a late fall/all around winter beer.
For more info: Founder's Breakfast Stout
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