Blonde Roast
Founders Brewing Company

Light brown in color with a hazy complexion. There’s a fingernail of off white around a third of the rim. The aroma is of lightly roasted coffee. I’m tasting lightly roasted coffee and light malt. The mouth is a tad oily and dry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This beer pours a very clear, golden-amber color with a significant white head. It has a faint aroma of sweet, yeasty bread. The taste is somewhat dry with the predominant flavor of fresh roasted coffee. It does taste slightly watered-down but overall, a pretty good ale.

12oz can into a pint glass. Canned 10/30/24, so 2 months old.

Nice deep golden body. Small white head shrinks to a ring, specks of lacing. Aroma is richly of coffee. On tasting, smooth, clean, great coffee flavor, no bitterness or burn. Finish is coffee laying on the tongue.

Overall, most of the lighter beers with a coffee added do not do it for me. This is an exception. It figures that Founders would know how to handle coffee and beer.

 

Pour golden, as expected. Aromas are all sweet iced coffee and nothing else. Taste is the same, like someone added iced coffee to a light beer. Medium body. Overall, not great.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poured into wide mouth grip shaped goblet: color is gold, head is off white with fine bubbles that presents 1/4 inch thick, head dissipates to nothing.

Smell is light roast coffee, light malt, hint of caramel, neutral hops.

Taste is lighter coffee than aroma, backed by malt with notes of caramel and biscuit, hops are earth.

Mouthfeel is low/moderate carbonation, moderate sweetness, low bitterness.

Overall a well crafted blonde ale that backs the forward coffee aroma and flavor notes.

Pours a clear gold. Thin foam. Light coffee aroma. Roasted coffee bean body. Lightly sweet finish. Great flavor. I prefer my coffee beers darker but this one is pretty damn good.

Pours a dark gold color with a minimal head that disappears quickly. Aroma of coffee and lightly roasted malts. Taste is sweet vanilla and black coffee. Very easy drinking.