KBS Espresso (2020)

Stout - Imperial / Double Coffee

KBS gets its coffee fix in the very first variant to come from our beloved bourbon barrel-aged stout. Yes, KBS may already be brewed with coffee, but it gets some extra oomph when it’s aged on espresso beans after being removed from barrels. The result is a fresh and snappy coffee twist on our classic barrel-aged beer. Who says you can’t start your day with a barrel-aged stout?

ABV

12.0

Rating

4.25616

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Ed S.

It passed #Finally

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Luke

Lots o coffee

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Achilles B.

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Jason Wagnitz

The mackinac fudge takes the first place this year!

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Pat Davidson

It’s of high quality but a little too coffee for me!

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Robert Church

Chocolate, coffee, good, but feel 19 brought more WOWS at the time.

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Young W.

prefers the OG. This more bitter, low on barrel aged aroma. Still a damn good beer

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Thomas Rose-Gray

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Wilder F.

Café torrado bem presente, pra tomar uma garrafa vai, mas pra tomar um 6-pack tem q ser Hilander! 🤙🏽🍻

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Paul Ferraioli

4.1-4.15. Decent coffee.

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Otto Laitinen

Dangerous. Flavour is awesome

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Danny A.

That's heavy, doc

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Silvan Mensink

Heerlik dik in duh koffie.

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Brian

On the right. Very coffee forward as you would expect. Yum!

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Mason Lyttle

Another gifted Founders, another very good stout. There are better coffee stouts, and there are many worse. I feel like KBS Espresso pretends to lean on roasty coffee but it's so much sweeter than that

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Mike A.

Not impressed. I wanted to be.

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Fae E.

Yup. Tastes like espresso. And booze. Would be a great breakfast beer!

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Curt F.

A little to much espresso, still good

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Abel Clark

Strong coffee, solid stout

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Matt V

Espresso forward

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Jesper Møjbæk

Meget kaffe (sjovt nok). Lidt sprittet. Fin deik

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David Keen

Lots of coffee flavor!

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Scott

Blackened coffee beans dipped in roasty dark chocolate. Warming bourbon and vanilla tones on an old oak backdrop. Smooth and creamy with a definite booze presence throughout. Well done, but some cellar age on this would be beneficial.

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Mads Sinding

På bagkant

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matt k

"Who says you can't start your day with a barrel-aged stout?" Not me!

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Natalie P.

Less impact than I remember it having last year. I'd been on a bit of a KBS fix, and at that point, the espresso was a bit of a mind benda - however, this time - the coffee seems a bit aggressive, and steals the show, to it's detriment.

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David

Pint glass for Joe E

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