Breakfast Stout Breakfast

Each fall the release of the latest batch of Breakfast Stout from Founders Brewing Company is highly anticipated, and the past few years Founders has hosted a Breakfast Stout Breakfast to celebrate. This year I went for the first time, with three friends. It was an exclusive event - only 200 tickets were sold. This year the food was catered by San Chez A Tapas Bistro, which was a change from previous years (I heard the food was so-so in the past).

We arrived right at 10am to join the long line outside, entered, received our special Breakfast Stout mugs, filled them with the delicious double chocolate coffee oatmeal stout, and got in line for our food. The large doors to the outdoor porch were open, as the weather was beautiful. Here's the view inside Founders (before 11am!):

After gathering a muffin, some scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, some potatoes, bread, and samples of three different kinds of hash (including "Bloody Mary"), my breakfast looked like this:

Note the cool mug, and the beginnings of the light brown lacing left on the inside of the mug by the beer as I drank it. Breakfast Stout is black as night, contains 8.3% alcohol, and went really well with the food. It wasn't weird to be drinking it before noon at all. We went back for seconds later, and even though the event was supposed to go until 1pm, they were running out of food by noon when we left. It was a pretty cool experience overall.