Bourbon County Brand Stout - Cherries Jubilee
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating|
Score
8.06
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The beer began its aging journey in freshly emptied bourbon barrels, which impart rich layers of oak, warm vanilla, and subtle baking spice. It was then finished in cognac barrels, adding elegant notes of dried fruit and contributing to a rich, full mouthfeel.
Following the aging process, the stout was blended with Montmorency cherries, citrus, and panela–resulting in a velvety, decadent beer with flavors of candied dark cherry, soft vanilla, and a caramelized citrus finish.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Thick and black with a trace beige head. Very boozy with whiskey, dough, molasses and cherry. Very long finish. Full bodied and smooth
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
2025 bottle from Livonia Liquor. Pours a deep brown to black with a bit of tan head that lingers, then dissipates. Lots of dark chocolate, vanilla, bourbon and of course cherries on the nose. Palate is very similar with a nice cherry cordial dark chocolate note going on. Thick and viscous on the palate with lingering oak, bourbon, cacao and vanilla on the finish. Killer stuff!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle shared at tasting. Opaque black color, virtually no head. Aroma and flavor are malts, soft roasty, soft soy sauce, a bit boozy but as expected, barrel influence, sweetish a bit and nicely bitter, subtle cherry notes. Awesome beer. Awesome. How do they do it. Absolutely delicious.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8
Surprising; normally I don’t care for cherry stouts, but BCBS Cherries Jubilee hits just the right balance between sour cherry sweetness and imperial stout richness, offsetting the fruity middle with deep veins of bittersweet chocolate, anise, oak, and bourbon. Finishes with a lingering bourbon booziness. Lovely.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8
500ml bottle, 2025 vintage. Boozy cherry aroma with notes of roasted malt, chocolate, orange, cognac, caramel, vanilla, bourbon and oak. Pours deep brown with a thin mocha brown head that has little retention and lacing. Starts with rich roasted malt, chocolate, caramel, cognac and orange flavors as well as having a rich, full body and silky smooth mouthfeel. Finishes impeccably smooth with cherries, vanilla, bourbon and oak flavors. Excellent variant using the cherries well and nice warming booze at the end.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
500ml bottle. Bottled on 21JUL 25. Pours an opaques black with no real head. The aroma is chocolates, cherries, oak and bourbon. The taste is similar to the nose--cherries, chocolates and bourbon. The palate is full and syrupy. Finishes long with lingering cherries. Alcohol is well hidden. Overall: Decent but I probably wont buy again.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8
On draft as art of a flight at Global Brew, Evansville. Typical BC look w/o head. Aroma is strong cherry, bourbon, dark fruit, earthy malt, toffee, all well balanced. Taste is strong cherry, bourbon, toffee, earthy malt. Smooth, silky texture, average carbonation, finish as taste without alcohol astringency of previous iterations today. Mild, pleasant alcohol warmth. Very nice without adjuncts hijacking’s the base.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8
5 oz draft. Aroma of Heaven Hill, Wild Turkey and mild cherry juice. Flavor thankfully is not overpowered by cherry purée. Shows a good amount of bourbon with a mild cherry accent in the finish. It is fresh on draft so it is a little bit boozy. 9 to 12 months from now this is gonna be perfect
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
On tap at the second annual final Black Friday dark beer event at PAYETTE Brewing. A deep dark brown pour that even stains the glass brown on a swirl. Lost of dark caramel roast, tootsie rolls and a little dark cherry note. A bit like that German chocolate cake. Sweet rich and moderately boozey for such a big beer.