Sounds appealing enough, right?  Sounds like something you might be all over at your local Starbucks, too, I’d imagine.  Being a strictly black (Pike Place, if you must know) coffee drinker means that double chocolate coffee means nothing to me, but let’s just imagine for a moment that “Double Chocolate Coffee Oatmeal Stout” describes what was in your brown bottle.

Yeah, really.

Founders is a Grand Rapids, MI-based brewery that makes some interesting brews, the most interesting of which is the Breakfast Stout, which was introduced to me by a fellow twitterer who happens to live about an hour or so away from me from time to time.  This guy’s pretty hardcore with his brew and regularly sips on what I call “mood beer,” as I tend to have to be in the mood for the beer he chews on drinks regularly.  Nevertheless, I’m always willing to try something new, and after seeing Founders Breakfast Stout on tap at a fantastic Detroit BBQ place, where I was (sadly) there for a work lunch, I remembered to hunt some down.  My local beer store, bless their souls, had plenty of four-packs on the shelf.

I’ll tell ya, this stuff is fantastic.  My wife described its taste as “dark chocolate coffee,” which is spot-on.  It leaves a chocolate coffee aftertaste which is pleasant and which helps keep the flavor consistent.  It’s 8.3% ABV, and it made me want to sit in my cold garage and drink myself warm.  Good stuff.  If you see it, try it.