Founders "KBS - Maple Mackinac Fudge" Imperial Stout

I was reluctant to pick up this beer. KBS had been one of my favorites. Indeed, it had gotten a perfect five. But then, they change the formula and brewing pattern to make it more available, and they ruined the beer in the process. I'm not sure if they necessarily had to alter the ingredients so as to produce KBS on a larger scale, but it was not worth it. I picked this up because it didn't say coffee on the front, and coffee was the reason I hated the more recent incarnation. Let's hope this has more maple, fudge, and barrel aging than it has coffee. I also see pictures of chocolate, so maybe they replaced the coffee with chocolate?

The very dark brown beer is black to the naked eye and sports a tan head with microscopic bubbles that fizzle way to a thin skin of bubbles across the top with some large bubbles creating an island in the middle and a very thick ring around the sides. The aroma immediately fills me with dread. This smells like coffee grounds. This smells so much like coffee that I am reluctant to even put this to my mouth. I am distressed, and I am looking for a way out.

First sip is weak coffee. I'm not going to take another sip. I'm also not going to do my traditional gulp. This beer is bad, and it is brewed by bad people. Those people make bad decisions. They put this bad beer into my life just to make it more bad. This isn't the Michael Jackson version of Bad that I'm talking about, and I can't express enough just how much I don't want to drink this beer. To that point, I am not going to.

Bottom Line: Stick your coffee in your ear.

0.0/5