Melody Hill

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Final bottle from my barrel-aged cellar. Exquisite brew here, cherry ale aged in vanilla-oak bourbon barrels. Complex, sweet, tart and warming. Beautiful!

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Delicious and smooth slow sipper with subtle notes of chocolate, coffee and vanilla in a bourbon-edged brown ale. One of the last Founders beers in my cellar.

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Glorious blackened imperial stout that is only rivaled by the legend that is Founders CBS. Deep chocolate, coffee, maple and bourbon greatness. Big and a uniquely great beer!

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Legendary beer, at one time a white whale. Still big, strong, and a bourbony slow sipper.

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Deep, dark, delicious imperial stout with a really developed mix of coffee, chocolate, hazelnut and bourbon vanilla vibes. Complex? Definitely. One of the top KBS variants, imo!

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Final bottle of this from the beer cellar/archive. Remarkable combination of styles, rich and full yet retaining the malty drinkability of Oktoberfest marzens. Delicious!

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Exquisite aroma up front of toasty cinnamon and maple. Big swell of syrupy bourbon kick that subsides into a warm follow-through. Big and impressive!

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A refined and deep synthesis of flavors,...caramel, scotch, oak barrel char, fruit...nice malty slow sipper. Big, boozy, bourbony and beautiful!

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Really a superlative beer in the style that led me into the craft beer world. Perfectly-executed Belgian tripel with blue agave nectar. Sweet and spice melding seamlessly.

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Upping this one to a 4.0 as it is both rich, smooth, and downright refreshing. Glad Founders kept their Oktoberfest this year when another big player floundered (Sierra Nevada). Still, a 12pk rather than 15pk?

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Such a smooth, easygoing 11% brew! Bourbon oak and vanilla siding with cherries and citrus peel. Delicious, subtle, and complex.

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A so very impressive beer. Thick! Rich! Heavy! Bitter! Sweet! Nutty! Coffee! Cocoa! Bourbon! Wow!

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Pleasant little NE IPA. Really no bad beers from Founders, ever! Looking forward to finding the new All Day brew soon...

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Now this is a wonderful brew. Smooth as can be, with the cherries melding with maple and a hint of vanilla/oak bourbon. But this doesn't feel boozy. It's subtle, complex, and wholly unique. Wow.

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Tasty sipper with tons of malty character, peaty and boozy but somehow easygoing, especially as it warms. The bourbon blends in nicely with the Scotch. Superb!

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Very good dessert-style sipper, with plenty of chocolate and vanilla notes, a touch of coffee, and a warming bourbon finish. Rich and exquisite! Founders does a beer right!

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Sweet up front before packing a heated habanero punch at finish. Complex flavors mixing pretty well here. Enjoyable enough and a unique brew.

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With all the emphasis on IPAs, I miss where my beer education began, Belgian ales. This is a faithful Tripel, with loads of candi sugar, brown sugar, dried fruit...yeasty and potent at.10%! Very nice and welcome on my palate.

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Last year's bottle. Still pretty delicious with lots of cherry and brown sugar notes. The bourbon barrel aging adds some vanilla and leather notes to the mix. A recent favorite from Founders. Now in the Barrel-Aged series, rather than the Bottle Shop.

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Porter/stout fans, don't ignore this beer. It's just about a picture perfect porter with deep notes of chocolate and coffee. Delicious and so drinkable.

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One of the more impressive of the KBS variants. The hazelnut comes through loud and clear and works surprisingly well alongside the chocolate and coffee. Bourbon dialed back in here. Fantastic beer!

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Deep dark delicious. Fantastic heavy chocolate and coffee up front with a lingering vanilla oak bourbon heat bringing up the finish. What a complex and tasty sipper! A classic.

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Founders don't do bad beers. This is an easygoing smooth IPA packed with stonefruit and citrus juiciness. Nu-skool, as some may say. I say another top-tier sessioner.

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From the beer cellar. Year-aged, but still a pretty formidable nemesis. Big, tongue-lashing malts and substantial hop overload. Yep, a strong and well-done barleywine.

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What a crazy coalition of cocoa coffee cinnamon vanilla bourbon. Big! Boozy! Brazen! Maybe not my favorite variant of the KBS family, but certainly an imposing and formidable brew worth tasting.

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Smooth sipper with plenty of cocoa, coffee, vanilla, and warming bourbon. And pretty snappy at 11.1%!

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What a well-composed brew here! Immediate cherry and vanilla with a smooth bourbon finish. Unique, inventive, and downright delicious!

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Delicious beer with so many subtle notes...and not too boozy. Easy slow sipper with peaty malts, chocolate notes, and a bourbon barrel oaked edge. Top.

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Super rich and potent blend of chocolate, vanilla and coffee in a warming 11.1% bourbon barrel finish. Not surprisingly, another inventive and complex dark ale from Founders.

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Interesting mix of caramel malts and grapefruit citrus hops. Nice balance and a very drinkable session IPA.

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Aged nearly a year, this one holds up well. Always a respected, even legendary beer, Breakfast Stout brings huge coffee and bittersweet chocolate notes alongside a smooth, viscous body. Delightful!

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Big smooth blackened deliciousness from Founders. Rich notes of maple, coffee, chocolate, vanilla and some bourbon rounding it all out. Something special to close out the night.

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It's been a while since I had this. One of my all-time go-to beers. Delicious citrus and floral hops. Easy-drinking and always a winner!

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Superb heavy-duty big beerness here. Bitter hops and chewy burnt caramel malts. A superlative and on-mark barleywine. Couldn't be better in class.

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Very unusual and complex barrel-aged brown ale, taking notes from the Old Fashioned cocktail. Lots of cherry and orange notes collide with vanilla bourbon warmth. Delicious!

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Always a great beer, original and influential among Founders' numerous legendary brews. Deep coffee and chocolate notes, smooth-bodied and complex.

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Huge beast of palate-wrecking hops and malt overload! Delicious and massive! Take it easy with this, boss...

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Luscious dessert beer packed with bittersweet chocolate and tangy raspberries. Nobody does stouts like Founders.

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Huge IPA here with a wallop of bitter citrus/grapefruit and tropical hops, plus a comparably thick malt backbone. Chewy hoppy resins coat the tongue. Yes, please!

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Superb and complex bourbon barrel-aged porter from the masters at Founders. Deep, robust notes of cocoa, maple, vanilla, and oak barrel warmth. Great slow sipper.

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Remarkable approximation of a margaritas here! Salt, lime, tequila barrel all there...big and tasty brew from Founders.

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Not bad, just my least favorite of Founders "hard seltzer" line. A caveat though...I'm not a fan of grapefruit. On to the Founders Mas Agave goses next.

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Super-smooth oat/oat milk-infused hazy IPA with tropical juiciness galore. Deceptive at 7.1%. Very tasty.

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Solid milk stout, smooth and roasty. The exotic ingredients seem a bit lost in the flavor, though. I don't get any s'mores vibes.

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Pretty well the "best" beer I've had since my initial experience with the similarly-intense Founders CBS. Deep melding of chocolate with maple, coffee, and bourbon. Wow.

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Heavy-duty dose of coffee flavor to notch up the legendary chocolate-coffee-bourbon imperial stout. Took me a while but superior brew for coffee fans.

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Nearly a 2 year-old bottle. So smooth and complex. Chocolate and coffee heavy, bourbon/oak finish. Lovely.

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Pretty good mix of dark chocolate and tart raspberries. Dessert stout indeed! "Celebrating" our quarantine days.

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Pretty lovely juicy hop beast here. Easy to drink and smooooth all the way. Founders rarely fails.

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Ideal companion to a pretty great pizza from Dontae's Highland Pizza Parlor. Candied jalapenos? Mushrooms? Yes, please!

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Solid German-style Marzen from the reliable Founders. Malty and balanced.