08/31/2026
🍺 ANNOUNCING... KBS SELECT!
We are SO excited! This one took years. Actual years of asking Founders for a single barrel Steward Select KBS, and getting told no, the volume didn't work at that scale.
We didn't let it go. If a full barrel wasn't realistic, the question became what else could actually make a version of KBS worth doing on its own.
So we talked. And talked and talked and talked, for what felt like forever. What would differentiate a great new version of KBS? Along with the brewing team, we eventually landed on a custom finish. Then we talked some more. What should that finish be? How long should it rest? After much back and forth, experiments, and test runs, we came up with one we loved.
That b**r is KBS Select! The same KBS you already love, aged 12 months in bourbon barrels, then rested two weeks on sugar maple. Deep coffee, dark cocoa, cherry cola, vanilla, with the maple showing up at the edges instead of taking over. Great focus all the way through, with the soft sugar maple tannins very well integrated into the textbook KBS richness. This gave the extra depth and grip that we hoped to see, and the brew team just nailed the exposure levels. All of you out there that remember the excitement around the original KBS launches, and all that depth and intensity, this one is for you!
This will be going out to the wider market too, but this is one that we fostered into existence, and after years of going back and forth on it, we're not going to undersell how big a deal it is that it's finally happening. It's a limited, one time only run, so grab it while you can.