I haven’t written a good review in a while, so here’s something to keep all you beer people looking for better beer. These 2 beers are hard to find, one harder than the other.
Founders Curmudgeon Old Ale is a bourbon barrel aged old ale. It pours a nice amber color with a very thin, quickly disappearing head. It smells a bit of bourbon and malts. The taste is mostly bourbon and it’s a bit hot. I bought this at the recommendation of a guy I know who works at Yankee Spirits. I liked this beer, but the amount of bourbon flavor and the heat took over my senses and I wasn’t able to really taste much else in the beer. I bought a 4 pack. I’m going to age the rest of it for a while and see what happens.
Founders Breakfast Stout is a coffee stout brewed with some chocolate. It’s a thick dark pitch black stout with a brown head. It smells of roasted coffee and a hint of dark chocolate. This is one of the smoothest coffee stouts I have ever tried. There’s a lot of coffee flavor in it, but the chocolate round it out nicely. It’s thick and a little on the oily side, but very tasty. If you can find this one, you will do yourself a disservice if you don’t buy it. It’s that good.
As a little extra, I also drank my bottle of Ithaca Ten, their 10th anniversary beer, a double red ale. This one was super carbonated with a huge head. It had a nice balanced hoppy flavor, but the malts were right up there with it and it had a slight rye flavor to it as well. It was very tasty once I was able to get past the head. This was exactly as it was described… a double red ale.