Okay, so an aside - it seems all the beers I brought home are pretty high gravity. This next one's 6.5%, and it's one of the "lighter" ones. Yeah....prolly not making it through all of them tonight.Anyway, Founders does it again. These guys from Grand Rapids, Michigan can do dark beer. Their Breakfast Stout is one of my new favorites, and apparently their porter is no slouch either. Somewhere between an oily, super heavy Baltic porter and the coffee-carmel richness of the best English porters, this is officially good stuff.
Roasted barley drowns the nose, but there's a touch of dark chocolate and malt under there as well. The palate really lines up with the nose, with sweet malty barley hint-o'-chocolaty goodness. Some might say that makes it less complex, but I really enjoy my mouth and nose having a simultaneous...well, you get the picture. 8/9, just shy of Sinebrychoff. Yum.
Word to the wise, though - I haven't been terribly impressed with Founders reds or pales and such.
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