Cooper Project No. 1: Scotch Ale
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy Series Out of Production|
Score
7.19
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The Cooper Project is a rotating series that highlights Goose Island’s barrel-aging program. The first release of 2017, this scotch ale, pours a deep copper color that precedes notes of rich malt, toffee, and subtle roast for a seamless blend of beer and barrel flavors. Aged in bourbon barrels for 4 months.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ Goose Island Brewhouse, Chicago. Sweet, foamy and slightly stuffy with some syrupy malts, caramel, bourbon, toffee and oak. Sweet and malty.
Tried
on 06 Dec 2018
at 02:13
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
(Tap) clear, fluorescent bright reddish amber colour with a small, beige head; aroma of toffee, wet wood, red currant; thick palate; balanced flavour with a long, light tart finish
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Sep 2018
at 21:46
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle - clear ruby - nose of caramelized sugars and light bourbon barrel - flavor is rich but simple maltiness, light alcohol warmth, light earth and wood - it's not bad at all, just rather simple for a style that can be loaded with malt complexities.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2018
at 01:02
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle, Belmont Beverage in South Bend. Pours reddish brown with a beige head. Aroma is barrel, sour hay, caramel, chocolate, dark fruit. Flavor is sweet caramel, barrel, alcohol, honey, bourbon. Doesn't blow me away.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2018
at 15:12
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottle from Craft Brewed. Pours a clear, deep molasses colored copper with a finger of beige head that dissipates quickly. Almost no lacing. Wood aromas with toasted sweet caramel malt, fall fruit, fig and plum aromas with a touch of vanilla. More vanilla and booze on the palate and fall fruit. Lingering sweet malt, bourbon character isn't really there...some oak and vanilla notes, maybe though. Underwhelming.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2018
at 03:57
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
4 oz taster at Standard Market for Repeal Day. Light brown color, just a bit of haze, and a thin layer of foam collecting to the edges. Smell has a bit more sugar than it does bourbon, at first sniff. But the taste delivers a nice impression of bourbon; not as strong as a barley wine, but that’s the territory it’s eyeing covetously. There’s only a slight note of peat, and maybe only because I’m looking for it, but a deep roast barley. There’s enough of this glass to let the beer resolve into a nice Scots Whiskey taste, just without the heady alcohol smell.
Tried
on 05 Dec 2017
at 11:08
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled from the tap at Happy Gnome. Pours a clear bronze with a what head that dissipates to the edges and laces slightly. Aroma has a nice bourbon note with with sweet grains and a bit of bread. Flavor has sweet grains, a touch of sweet fruit and a nice bourbon note backing.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Aug 2017
at 14:28
8.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Draft at beer basement. Aroma of lucious bourbon, raisin, ripe fruit, cherry and vanilla. Rich taste of delicious bourbon vanilla, raisin, ripe fruit,cherry, molasses and a nice raisiny bourbon vanilla finish. Absolutely fantastic.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Jul 2017
at 19:49
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 fl oz bottle. Pours hazy deep amber to brown with a small tan head. Aroma is caramelish and toasted malty. Sweet, caramelish. Slight toasted. Breadish and roasted malty. Lingering dark malty and caramelish finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2017
at 13:03
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 ounce bottle from Breeze-Thru. I figured it was appropriate to tick a "Cooper Project" beer while watching Twin Peaks. Dark reddish amber, large foamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of toffee, oak, pepper. Not much bourbon. The taste is vanilla, whiskey, caramel, toffee. Medium bodied. Tasty.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2017
at 21:45