Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout

[jrichstar]

I read that Founders CBS is supposed to be released in bottles on October 3rd. Has anyone seen it on store shelves and if so, where?

[durwoodx]

Good luck actually finding it on shelves. Most places have had waiting lists to sign up on for months.

[Pete]

According to Norm's Beer & Wine in Vienna, a total of 58 cases were shipped to supply all of Virginia and DC. Norm's was allocated one case and is allocating the bottles via a random drawing from their waitlist.

[SeanMike]

FireWorks Pizza has it in 750s on their menu - $30.

[leleboo]

{Can some of you brew experts tell me if this beer needs its own thread? We have a "Founder's Breakfast Stout" thread already, that discusses the "regular" (or whatever) and the KY variant. I could merge this and make it clear that thread covers all, or I can index this accordingly. Just not sure what's more appropriate for this, as I'm not really in the beer-knowledge loop!}

[durwoodx]

This is a variant of the Kentucky Breakfast Stout, which is itself a variant of the regular Breakfast Stout. Honestly I don't see a reason why we shouldn't just have one thread per brewery.

[jrichstar]

This was a "one-of-a-kind" release given that it's the first time this top-10 worldwide beer was bottled. But I agree that long-term, best to have one thread per brewery. Just need to be consistent across the blog.

[durwoodx]

I managed to score one bottle by being on a waiting list since LAST JUNE. A few people I know were lucky enough to either find out when it was being released at Whole Foods and Total Wines in the area or just randomly walk in at the right time, but it invariably sold out in less than 20 minutes.

For what it's worth, I had it on tap today for lunch (rough life, I know) at Pizzeria Paradiso Dupont and while it is in no way a beer I would refuse, I still think I would prefer the straight up KBS over it - just not convinced the maple adds much to it.