Bourbon County Brand Stout - Regal Rye
(has 1 batch)
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
8.13
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Bourbon County Brand Stout aged in rye whiskey barrels with blackberries, Luxardo candied cherries, fresh sour cherries and sea salt
The brewery opted for blackberry juice sourced from Valley Processing, in Sunnyside, Wash., instead of whole fruit both because it’s easier to use as an ingredient and for its richer flavor. The cherries used in Regal Rye are Luxardo cocktail cherries; the beer also incorporates the cherries' bright, sugary syrup. The sea salt “adds another layer that will make the flavors pop slightly — depth to something that’s already deep.
The brewery opted for blackberry juice sourced from Valley Processing, in Sunnyside, Wash., instead of whole fruit both because it’s easier to use as an ingredient and for its richer flavor. The cherries used in Regal Rye are Luxardo cocktail cherries; the beer also incorporates the cherries' bright, sugary syrup. The sea salt “adds another layer that will make the flavors pop slightly — depth to something that’s already deep.
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7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
This was a draft pour into pitchers @ Goose Island Barrel Warehouse on November 13th, 2015 at #RareDay
A - Pitch black, dense, a 2 finger espresso colored head that faded fast w/ no lacing.
S - The aroma is pretty weak, I get a very faint raspberry aroma but it’s light with chocolate pudding and spice
T - The taste....it’s very medicinal like a berry cough syrup. I’d say raspberry and cherry dominate the taste here. The Sea Salt is barely noticeable. The Templeton Re spice is present especially @ the finish. Chocolate but a high bitterness in this beer.
M - Oily, slick, lingering rye. Not very dense.
O - This beer is probably going to be amazing in 3 years. Think Fresh Cherry Rye and Fresh Bramble. Yeah, those fresh were like cough syrup and now they’re really shining. I think this has that potential.
A - Pitch black, dense, a 2 finger espresso colored head that faded fast w/ no lacing.
S - The aroma is pretty weak, I get a very faint raspberry aroma but it’s light with chocolate pudding and spice
T - The taste....it’s very medicinal like a berry cough syrup. I’d say raspberry and cherry dominate the taste here. The Sea Salt is barely noticeable. The Templeton Re spice is present especially @ the finish. Chocolate but a high bitterness in this beer.
M - Oily, slick, lingering rye. Not very dense.
O - This beer is probably going to be amazing in 3 years. Think Fresh Cherry Rye and Fresh Bramble. Yeah, those fresh were like cough syrup and now they’re really shining. I think this has that potential.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Nov 2015
at 08:27