The 2-4 Beers of Christmas 2018 Edition Day 13: Breakfast Stout by Founder's

Beer # 472 Breakfast Stout

Brewery: Founder's Brewing Company


Type: National Brewery Partial owned by Mahou-San Miguel  
Est.:  1996

Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Beer Style: Flavoured Oatmeal Stout

ABV: 8.3%      IBU: 60

Format: Aluminium Can  Size: 355 ml

Cost: $3.45 CAD     Purchased At: LCBO

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Ontario Label

Tonight's offering is from a company who has had some trouble with the labelling of their beers. They had to remove an image of a Mountie from their Canadian Breakfast Stout due to trademark infringement. Later, this beer's label came into question for another reason. On the left, you will see the bottle as I received it... a hand holding an oatmeal bowl... Appropriate for an oatmeal breakfast stout. But below, you will see an image of the bottle from Founder's website, showing that the bowl is cropped out of a larger picture. In the original, which I am assuming is some sort of parody of the "Gerber Baby" or other such ads from the turn of the century, depicts a toddler happily eating oatmeal. Well, this contravenes a lot of advertising laws. Depicting minors in alcohol or cigarette ads and labelling is a huge no-no in most areas. I'm assuming this includes Ontario where I bought this beer.  

Aside from that This is one of the best-rated beers and one of the more talked about on some of the other beer sites. And I was curious to find out what all the hype was about.

Onto our beer...

Michigan Label

Pours a very dark brown with a deep tan head made of small bubbles. Nose is molasses and brown sugar with a massive amount of coffee. First sip is deep roasted malt some sweetness, a nice bitter hit of coffee, cocoa nib and chocolate. Mouthfeel is creamy and smooth almost velvety. Hints of woody whiskey. Aeration spikes up the taste of brown sugar chocolate and mellows out the slightly bitter coffee.

Impressions: Fail, So-so, Pass, Exceptional 


Cost: 5/6 PASS
Colour: 5/6 PASS
Beer Style: 5/6 PASS
Re-Order:  5/6 PASS
Experience: 6/6 EXCEPTIONAL
Christmas Cheer 6/6 EXCEPTIONAL


Final Thoughts:

This is a very good oatmeal stout, warm, smooth, flavourful. A great beer for sipping in the winter. Is it a perfect beer like it's rating on Rate Beer claims? Hmmm... I don't think so. I've had better... not many, but a couple. However, this is still a very, very good beer and controversy over its label or not... try this one out and let me know what you think.


Cheers

CJT

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