Thoughts on Founders?

Their "biggest miss" according to most people is still a 3.92 on BA:
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1199/79488

Everything is solid, most are well above average, and a large amount are excellent.

 

A local bar just put their Red Rye on tap so I'm going to go check it out later. Not a fan of their porters or Harvest, but I generally like everything else I've tried of theirs.

 

Who are you people? No love for Backwoods Bastards? Jeeeezus.

 

Backwoods Bastard is one of my all time favorite beers. Also a big fan of Red's Rye. Do not care for Devil Dancer or Double Trouble. Everything else from them I really enjoyed.

Wish they got their expansion sorted out before they lept into new markets. The Harvest Ale and Backwoods Bastard fiasco soured a lot of people on them.

 

Love:
Double Trouble
CBS
KBS
FBS
Blushing Monk
Centennial IPA
Porter
Old Curmugeon
EDIT: Red's Rye

Like:
Frangelic Mountain Brown
Harvest Ale
Backwoods Bastard
Devil Dancer


Not a fan of:
Cerise.

This brewery is of the top 3 for sure in my book and I look forward to drinking every one of their beers I buy.

 

In no particular order:
Centennial
Red's
FIS
FBS
KBS
Backwoods Bastard
All Day IPA
Double Trouble
Harvest Ale

What's the "fiasco" surrounding Harvest and Backwoods?

 

As a Grand Rapids resident, I am slightly biased, but the quality is getting better in my opinion despite the larger barrels produced. I'm looking forward to 2013 and the 4 new and old beers being released.

 

Some markets seem to have gotten a lot less Backwoods and Harvest than last year. Here in Milwaukee I could get both fairly easily last year, especially Backwoods. This year my usual spots only sold it by the bottle with a 2/customer limit.

 

I'll jump in on the Backwoods Bastard love, how about that delicious porter? Curmudgeon? The only beer that I have disliked from Founder's is Cerise, and I typically hate anything cherry flavored, save for actual cherries.

 

Um, they're delicious?

I personally love everything Founders makes except Cerise and the Pale ale. Breakfast Stout is my number 1 go to beer. Went through a case already this season and it hasn't even snowed yet.

 

Mine is probably KBS and Imperial Stout, i use to love FBS but i drink too many BIG stouts and FBS just isnt as good as it was when i first started drinking it, its the same beer, my palate just changed...CHEERS

 

Care to elaborate?

 

All that above for sure, and but nowhere above do I see another of their beers that I like just fine-- especially early in the afternoon or camping at some piney isolated location-- an All Day IPA sure has its place around here. Always usually a few around the fridge here too most of the time.

 

Founders is my favorite brewery of all time. The Breakfast Stout, Imperial Stout and Double Trouble are absolutely world class beers to me. Just so delicious and I can't think of a single beer from them I didn't really enjoy

 

I'm not sure this was Founders' fault, although I'm sure it was frustrating.

 

I don't care for Dirty Bastard or Backwoods Bastard, but that has a lot more to do with my general distaste for the style than the quality of the beer. I thought FMB was average. While hazelnut brown ales aren't exactly common, it wouldn't be the first I would reach for. I found Blushing Monk to be completely over the top, and I had no idea how I would get through the bottle until I paired it with a piece of chocolate cake at which point it became divine.

Beyond that everything else I've had I would say is very good at the least. As an aside, I think I might be the only person in the world that absolutely loves Cerise.

 

Heh, less frustrating, more "I only have these two singles so I'm gonna stick them in the fridge and see if I can try to not drink them both now and wait until next November to hopefully get more".

 

i did a tasting the other night with 2010 2011 and 2012 breakfast stout he not kidding about it not being the same the 2010 blew the other two out of the water so much creamier and thicker it has changed no way age did that

 

All the stouts and porters are awesome. Beer = good.

 

Double Trouble
Reds Rye
Harvest
Porter
All of them are frickin damn delicious.