Bourbon County Brand Vanilla Stout (2018)
(Batch of Bourbon County Brand Stout - Vanilla)
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
8.20
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This long time favorite makes a long-awaited return to the Bourbon County Stout roster. Utilizing whole grade A vanilla beans from Madagascar, Vanilla delivers on all the quintessential things fans love about this variant: aromatic vanilla, marshmallow, toffee, oak, and floral notes highlighting the creamy mouthfeel and enhancing the chocolate flavors that are ingrained in Bourbon County Stout.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pitch black color. Smell like chocolate cake massive vanilla, caramel, bourbon. The palate is super smooth, boozy, Uber smooth palate. Perfectly smooth.
Tried
on 07 Jun 2025
at 11:27
8/10
Dark sweet malty with lots of cockade and caramel, vanilla waves, thick body, dark malty close.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Mar 2025
at 06:07
8.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
31/XII/20 - 1Pt. 0.9Fl. Oz. bottle @ home, BB: n/a, bottled: 6/IX/18 (2020-1176) Thanks to ElManana for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark brown to black beer, small creamy beige head, unstable, dissipates quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: sweet impression, lots and lots of chocolate milk, nice roast, more chocolate, very intense, some roasted hazelnuts. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: lots and lots of chocolate, nice roast, soft bitterness, bit sweet, chocolate, some coffee notes, very nice. Aftertaste: vanilla notes, sweet caramel, more chocolate, very nice, bit sweet, quite some alcohol, good roast, some coffee, slightly sourish.
Clear dark brown to black beer, small creamy beige head, unstable, dissipates quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: sweet impression, lots and lots of chocolate milk, nice roast, more chocolate, very intense, some roasted hazelnuts. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: lots and lots of chocolate, nice roast, soft bitterness, bit sweet, chocolate, some coffee notes, very nice. Aftertaste: vanilla notes, sweet caramel, more chocolate, very nice, bit sweet, quite some alcohol, good roast, some coffee, slightly sourish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2020
at 21:00
Smells boozy, vanilla, chocolate. Taste like it's 11%, but actually 15%. This is fantastic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Nov 2019
at 23:17
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle shared @ Dangerous Bottleshares #11. Big fuckin thanks to MotherBrother for bringing this! Been wanting this for so long. Pours pitch black with a small dark brown head. Aromas of vanilla, dark chocolate, milky chocolate, chocolate fudge, caramel, roast, lots of barrel notes; bourbon, oaky notes. Taste is sweet, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, roast, fudge, roasted coconut, vanilla, light licorice, oaky notes, dry finish. Damn, this is good!
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 17:19
9/10
OK, this one does not disappoint. Vanilla is used extremely well, and works greatly with the base. Pretty sweet, rich and thick. Not as sharp as the regular, and not as messy as the other variants. Lots of vanilla but not metallic. Loads of bourbon.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2019
at 23:00
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sweet woody chocolate and marshmallow. Deep dark brown with a small light brown head. Dark chocolate and light vanilla with raisin notes. Lots of this could be age.
Tried
on 16 Sep 2019
at 01:39
9/10
Delicious stuff!
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2019
at 02:21
9/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2019
at 21:18
8.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from trade with Kevin. Pours black with beige head that disappears fairly quickly. Loads of vanilla, borderline skin lotion aroma with some cocoa, light coconut and also a bit of ash. Taste is rich with vanilla, chocolate, light booze and well integrated barrel tones. Dangerously drinkable. Good stuff!
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jun 2019
at 20:30