Founders KBS (Kentucky Breakfast Stout)
355mL 2008 ed. A- A midnight black, motoroil pour yields a thin, dark, brown head. Spotty lacing sticks to the snifter. N- Very nice: dark chocolate ganache, plums, dates, spiced rum, vanilla extract. T- Intense milk chocolate, cocoa, mellowed out roast and heavy coffee. Bourbon, oak, vanillin are muted and soft. P- Rich, oily, soft, ending fairly dry. 355mL 2009 ed. A- Head formation is still not spectacular. Weak lace. N- Soft butterscotch, buttery bourbon quickly devolve into rubbing alcohol. T- Soft up front with rich bourbon and coconut oil. Moves in the mid and finish to tannic oak, drying chalk, sort of like over oaked red wine. P- Silky for a moment but ends chalky and dry. Definitely inferior to the '08 batch.