Bourbon County Brand Stout
(has 32 batches)
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Winter|
Score
8.47
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Every year since its inception in 1992, we strive to honor the original Bourbon County Stout recipe. And, 30 years later, we continue Gregory Hall’s legacy and passion for making the best beer possible, starting with the best barrels the bourbon trail has to offer. This year, our Imperial Stout is aged and blended from freshly emptied bourbon barrels from Heaven Hill, Four Roses, Wild Turkey, and Buffalo Trace distilleries. Expect flavors of vanilla, dark chocolate, toffee, molasses, almond, and dried fruit.
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9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
(Draft at Beer Temple, Amsterdam, 5 Aug 2026) Black colour with brief, foamy, beige head. Malty, roasty nose with notes of chocolate, bourbon, vanilla, oak wood and raisins. Malty, roasty, slightly boozy taste with bourbon, oak wood, raisins, vanilla, rum, treacle, chocolate, caramel and a balanced cacao bitterness. Full body, quite sweet. Rich, boozy and warming with a generous barrel character. Still in great balance. Excellent stuff!
Tried
from Draft
at
BeerTemple
on 02 Sep 2026
at 20:43
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Keg BA Helsingborg Plaza 2026-08-28
AR: borboun vanilla, bozzy, roasted malt ,
AP: dark brown , wee sand brown lid
F: borboun vanilla, bozzy, roasted malt
AR: borboun vanilla, bozzy, roasted malt ,
AP: dark brown , wee sand brown lid
F: borboun vanilla, bozzy, roasted malt
Tried
from Draft
at
The Bishops Arms Marina Plaza (Helsingborg)
on 28 Aug 2026
at 21:04
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Aug 2026
at 19:32
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8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
27/8/2026. Draft at the 34th East Anglian Beer & Cider Festival, St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St. Edmunds. The day's finisher. Bloody good.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Aug 2026
at 14:55
7.4/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Rumors are dark malt, toffee, roast, molasses, prunes. Flavors are similar to nose adding in some oak. Excellent body and carbonation. Touches of coffee and cocoa. Sweetness is just right. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Festival Foods - La Crosse
on 15 Aug 2026
at 04:27
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle, 2021 vintage, two months before bbd. Pours black, with a creamy mocha head. Aroma is sweet malty notes of bread, muscovado, tobacco and liquorice, as well as tannins and bourbon barrels. Creamy body, with soft carbonation. Flavour is slightly burned, roasted malts with dark bread, cocoa nibs and leathery minerals, as well as tannins and bourbon barrels.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2026
at 13:31
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle Hopnick 2026 2026-08-06 Göteborg
AR: bourbon boozy, roasted malt
AP: dark brown, wee lid
F: bourbon boozy, roasted malt
AR: bourbon boozy, roasted malt
AP: dark brown, wee lid
F: bourbon boozy, roasted malt
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2026
at 13:52
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is huge bourbon, coconut, vanilla, chocolate, treacle, meaty, taste is similar, a little thin from age but still intense. 8/9/9/8/8
Tried
on 17 Jul 2026
at 10:14
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, vanilla, coconut, meaty, taste is similar, slight roast. Still fairly boozy. 8/9/9/8/8
Tried
on 05 Jul 2026
at 15:21
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2026
at 19:14