Bourbon County Brand Stout - Chocolate Praline
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating|
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7.63
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Goose Island brings these flavors to the forefront with 2025 Bourbon County Brand Chocolate Praline Stout. First aged in freshly emptied bourbon barrels, this stout draws inspiration from the underlying decadence of chocolate, caramel, and roasted nuts found in Original. Layered with a blend of cocoa nibs, hazelnuts, almonds, cashews, and dates, this full-bodied stout showcases the classic flavors of a chocolate praline while embracing the subtle nuances imparted by the bourbon barrel.
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Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle.
A- Black color, black liquid, no head.
A- Chocolate, candied nuts, sugary.
F- Chocolate, bourbon, nutty, brown sugar, sweet.
T- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, rich finish.
O- No pecan which is what I expect from a praline, but every other nut in here. Not bad but certainly not the best variant. Drank pretty fresh. Definitely on the sweet side. Mostly chocolate. Half a bottle would've been enough here. Does get nuttier as it warms.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared at tasting. Opaque pitch black color, virtually no head. Aroma is malts, nuts, nutty. Flavor is malts, soft roast, nutty, sweetness, soft liquorice notes, hazelnuts, but also something artificial. Mwah.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8
Refrigerated 0.5 L brown bottle poured into a glass. Black with light brown head. Aroma is bourbon, thick body, medium carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is bourbon, chocolate, some pecan, and some booze.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Smooth chocolate and bourbon with notes of hazelnut, caramel, fudge, dates, almonds, some alcohol, vanilla. Long sweet finish with some pleasant warming booze and a full body. Super smooth.
gave a cheers!
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
500ml bottle, 2025 vintage. Caramel aroma with notes of chocolate, dates, hazelnut, vanilla, bourbon and oak. Pours deep brown with a thin mocha brown head that has little retention and very little lacing. Starts with caramel, dates, chocolate and vanilla flavors as well as having a rich, full body and sticky sweet mouthfeel. Finishes quite smooth with hazelnut, bourbon and oak flavors. Nice, but the sweetness is bordering cloying. Looking forward to see what some time in the cellar does…
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 7.5
Draft at 1650 Leiden. Poured almost black in colour with a round frothy tan head. The aroma is roasty, chocolate. The flavour is moderate sweet, with a smooth, rich, oily, roasty, liquorice, chocolate, dry oaky, warm boozy alcohol bitter palate and a lingering liquorice bitter finish. Full bodied with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at share. Near black pour with small beige head. Aroma is roasty, boozy and nutty. Taste brings sweetness, chocolate, plus a hefty helping of booze. Strong, sweet with some dessert qualities.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
500 ml bottle. Pours an opaque black/brown with a minimal head that quickly vanishes. The aroma is medium in strength with soft bourbon and sweet pralines. The taste is dominated by caramel, toffee, praline, cashew, walnut and whatever. The palate is full and viscous with soft carbonation. Finishes long and sweet with lingering caramel. Overall: Nice--well made fer sure--but way to sweet for anything but a very small glass. Missing any real complexity and bitterness. I just did not care for this as much as I like nutty beers. Paired it with some Reggiano to cut the sweetness.
