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Kentucky Brunch Brand Stout
Toppling Goliath Brewing Company
- From:
- Toppling Goliath Brewing Company
- Iowa, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
Ranked #1 - ABV:
- 12%
- Score:
- 100
Ranked #1 - Avg:
- 4.83 | pDev: 7.04%
- Reviews:
- 188
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 24, 2024
- Added:
- Feb 26, 2012
- Wants:
- 4,105
- Gots:
- 133
Chocolate chip pancakes drenched with maple syrup served with espresso and a shot of bourbon, all in one sip. Our award-winning KBBS is decadence in a bottle.
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Ratings by Hugonaut13:
Reviewed by Hugonaut13 from Illinois
5/5 rDev +3.5%
5/5 rDev +3.5%
2014 gold wax bottle. Poured into a snifter.
A- Pours a jet black with a half inch of mocha foam that takes it's time receding. Light does not pass through this beer. When swirled, this beer laces so well that it takes seconds for the beer to finish falling off the sides of the glass. Extremely impressive. After the head recedes, a small ring of foam remains around the edge of the glass.
S- Caramel brownie dunked in a cup of coffee. Outstanding smell.
T- strong maple sweetness up front followed by some chocolate notes and finished up with slightly bitter coffee/roast notes that just tie it all together and keeps it from becoming overly sweet. Amazing depth of flavor yet balanced enough to have you coming back for the next sip quickly.
M- Rich and silky. Full body on this beer. Notch below those Zhukov thickness levels, which is perfect. Very sticky
O- This is an amazing treat. I hope some day Toppling Goliath can release this in much greater amounts. The world needs to try this beer. One of the best beers I've ever had. I cannot find a weakness in this beer. I feel blessed that I had a chance to have this.
Sep 16, 2014A- Pours a jet black with a half inch of mocha foam that takes it's time receding. Light does not pass through this beer. When swirled, this beer laces so well that it takes seconds for the beer to finish falling off the sides of the glass. Extremely impressive. After the head recedes, a small ring of foam remains around the edge of the glass.
S- Caramel brownie dunked in a cup of coffee. Outstanding smell.
T- strong maple sweetness up front followed by some chocolate notes and finished up with slightly bitter coffee/roast notes that just tie it all together and keeps it from becoming overly sweet. Amazing depth of flavor yet balanced enough to have you coming back for the next sip quickly.
M- Rich and silky. Full body on this beer. Notch below those Zhukov thickness levels, which is perfect. Very sticky
O- This is an amazing treat. I hope some day Toppling Goliath can release this in much greater amounts. The world needs to try this beer. One of the best beers I've ever had. I cannot find a weakness in this beer. I feel blessed that I had a chance to have this.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by MonDak_Joe1953 from Minnesota
4.71/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
4.71/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75
Tap pour at the taproom. Served chilled in a small snifter glass.
Black colored body. No lasting head. No lacing, but leaves a sheen.
Aroma of dark roasted malt, bourbon barrel, maple syrup, caramel, toffee, and a bit of dark fruit/cherry.
Taste is sweet from the maple syrup and bourbon barrel, also vanilla. Flavors of fudge chocolate, caramel, toffee, and dark fruit - cherry and figs. Long lasting aftertaste with chocolate, bourbon, and toffee.
Thicker mouthfeel with syrup. Higher ABV% only detected in the vapors. Quiet carbonation.
Rich and decadent dessert beer. Treat of the day, and from the source.
Jan 16, 2024Black colored body. No lasting head. No lacing, but leaves a sheen.
Aroma of dark roasted malt, bourbon barrel, maple syrup, caramel, toffee, and a bit of dark fruit/cherry.
Taste is sweet from the maple syrup and bourbon barrel, also vanilla. Flavors of fudge chocolate, caramel, toffee, and dark fruit - cherry and figs. Long lasting aftertaste with chocolate, bourbon, and toffee.
Thicker mouthfeel with syrup. Higher ABV% only detected in the vapors. Quiet carbonation.
Rich and decadent dessert beer. Treat of the day, and from the source.
Rated by Rristow from Ohio
5/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
The perfect barrel aged stout. Not overly sweet, nice barrel notes with coffee and maple. Just delish!
Jan 02, 2024Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
4.8/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.8/5 rDev -0.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
The flirtation with maple comes to a crescendo in Toppling Goliath's imperial maple, coffee and bourbon barrel aged stout.
Kentucky Brunch Brand Stout shows that something special is up when it pours with an inky impression of black brandy equipped with sticky legging swirling around an ominously still beer. As a sultry, savory and oh-so seductive scent pulls from the onyx-black beer, the mouth waters with the scent of espresso, dark chocolate, maple, sweet bourbon and port wine. Expectedly sweet, the toasty malts bring out the flavor of maple-dipped chocolate, chocolate covered espresso bean, bourbon ball candies and whisky laced molasses.
Bold, savory, sweet and mouth coating on the middle palate, the boldness of the stout remains in check while the more roasty edges pull from the sweetness with espresso roast, toasty, smoky and baker's chocolate that all trend spicy, lightly bitter and balancing with a chest warming offset of bourbon and all of its caramel, vanilla, toasted oak and peppery whisky flavors in closure.
Obviously full, rich and lavishly malted from start to finish, the stout finishes on a drying track in an off-pastry mouthfeel of spice, light bitterness and port-like warmth. It's a masterful stout that belongs on such lofty pedestals.
Dec 20, 2023Kentucky Brunch Brand Stout shows that something special is up when it pours with an inky impression of black brandy equipped with sticky legging swirling around an ominously still beer. As a sultry, savory and oh-so seductive scent pulls from the onyx-black beer, the mouth waters with the scent of espresso, dark chocolate, maple, sweet bourbon and port wine. Expectedly sweet, the toasty malts bring out the flavor of maple-dipped chocolate, chocolate covered espresso bean, bourbon ball candies and whisky laced molasses.
Bold, savory, sweet and mouth coating on the middle palate, the boldness of the stout remains in check while the more roasty edges pull from the sweetness with espresso roast, toasty, smoky and baker's chocolate that all trend spicy, lightly bitter and balancing with a chest warming offset of bourbon and all of its caramel, vanilla, toasted oak and peppery whisky flavors in closure.
Obviously full, rich and lavishly malted from start to finish, the stout finishes on a drying track in an off-pastry mouthfeel of spice, light bitterness and port-like warmth. It's a masterful stout that belongs on such lofty pedestals.
Reviewed by cdinardo21 from Pennsylvania
4.98/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 5
4.98/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 5
On tap at TG for part of KBBS release day - rating 2023 version; perfect black color. This is an amazing blend richness, dessert and coffee; the barrel is perfectly complimentary and not overpowering. The sweetness is palatable rather than making your teeth hurt. The mouthfeel is thick and silky. Overall, one of the best beers I've had.
Dec 11, 2023Reviewed by GreenBayBA from Wisconsin
4.7/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
4.7/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
Perfect black color. I didn't see much foam, other than a brown ring. The smell is a perfect blend of maple, coffee, chocolate, and bourbon. The taste is strong with maple. Almost too strong. Chocolate follows, with coffee, bourbon, and vanilla. It is very sweet. The mouthfeel is thick, smooth, lucious, and full. Very nice. Overall, this is a wonderful beer, but there is too much maple flavor for it to be one of my favorite beers.
Dec 10, 2023Rated by poidog from Hawaii
5/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Amazing stout, expensive but worth the price!
Aug 07, 2023
Kentucky Brunch Brand Stout from Toppling Goliath Brewing Company
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