Bourbon Barrel Stout
Goodwood Brewing Company in Louisville, Kentucky, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.54
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Goodwood Bourbon Barrel Stout is an homage to Kentucky’s proud distilling legacy – brewed with the same limestone water as its namesake whiskey and patiently seasoned in bourbon barrels. This silky American stout has notes of oak, dark roasted malts and, of course, bourbon. Roasted barley produces chocolate and coffee flavors with a lasting vanilla finish.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can shared by Steve. Cloudy, dark brown (virtually opaque), ring of head, nolacing. Aroma strong roasted malt/coffee, mild bourbon that includes a little bit of the minty quality referenced earlier, mild vanilla. Taste is no bourbon or oak; an earthy, almost rubbery quality; mild milk chocolate. Smooth texture, thin body, soft carbonation, dry finish as taste with mild bitterness. Overall, aroma is good but taste somewhat off-putting and texture underwheling
Tried
from Can
on 12 Apr 2026
at 05:12
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Draft: Poured a dark bark brown with a creamy tan head. Aroma a boozy, vanilla. Taste is boozy, woodsy, malty, tangy, roasty.
Tried
from Draft
at
Park Lane Tavern
on 13 Oct 2025
at 19:57
3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
Good lord, not sure went wrong here. Bottle. The pour and look are fine but fizzy. Granny smith apple vinegar with hints of malt and coffee. Tastes like somebody spit inside of a gueze bottle and mixed it with a porter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2025
at 01:33
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Dark brown with an amber hue when held up to the light. Small head. Aroma is strongly like bourbon with hints of vanilla. Taste is roasted grains and bourbon with a slight sweetness and vanilla finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2025
at 05:13
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft pour at Goodwood Brewing, Louisville. Poured a nearly pitch black color with a small off-white head. Aroma was big bourbon, vanilla, woody barrel. Toasty and roasty malts. Big chocolate, dark chocolate. Vanilla wood finish. Alcohol is present here.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Jul 2021
at 04:42
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
330ml can from Monster and Beer, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Poured a clear dark brown colour with a short-lived frothy tan head. The aroma is roasty malt and bourbon. The flavour is moderate sweet, light liqourice bitter, with a rich, slightly oily, roasty, oaky, bourbon, light chocolate, light dry coffee palate and some hints of sweet vanilla. Full to medium bodied with soft carbonation. Not bad at all and the best beer I’ve had so far from this brewery.
Tried
from Can
at
Monster and Beer
on 21 Mar 2021
at 15:43
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft at brewery. Dark brown, filmy head, ring of bubbles. Aroma is roast malts, light sweet notes. Taste adds light woody notes and very faint bourbon. More normal stout flavors than BBA.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Nov 2020
at 17:13
7/10
Chocolatey and coffeey. Nice, not too offensive. Bit thin and malty back but enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Apr 2019
at 19:04
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Deep dark brown coloured body with a large, four centimetre tall light brown head, that was a gusher for the first few minutes when the top was finally popped. Aroma of bourbon, vanilla, oak, grain, mild coffees and a heavy dose of chocolate cake, which is by far the strongest out of the bunch. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong lactose and pure cream bite at first with a light coffee and chocolate flavour soon afterwards, but the roasted malt is still the strongest, with perhaps the bourbon barrel and oakiness, second. Aftertaste shows a quite mild and subdued lactose and pure caster sugar flavour with a thinnish malt profile and a touch of vanilla on the finish. Overall, a pretty poor beer overall, from the bourbon flavours to the oakiness and of course the malt and perceived (at least in the style here on RateBeer) punch and complexity of this, as an Imperial Stout. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Beer Run in Charlottesville, Virginia on 26-February-2017 for US$3,50 sampled at my house here in Washington almost two years later on 19-January-2019.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jan 2019
at 11:15
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Aromas are dark malt roast black patent and either mint or eucalyptus. Flavors are like nose, bitter sweet and balanced plus that weird mint thing.
Tried
on 01 Aug 2018
at 06:20