Founders Breakfast Stout makes its return

One of the biggest reasons I was excited that Founders entered the Louisiana market a year and a half ago was that we’d see their Breakfast Stout here. Indeed, stout season is starting to begin now and this week we will see the return of Founders Breakfast Stout here in south Louisiana in both 4-packs and on draft. Founders says this about Breakfast Stout:

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

Breakfast Stout weighs in at 8.3%, so it’s not a beer that can be pounded all day long. But it can certainly be enjoyed at any time of day, be it breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Founders was kind enough to send me a couple sample bottles of this year’s batch in early October, so I’ve been able to try this version a bit earlier than most.

Breakfast Stout pours a very dark brown to black color, wi

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