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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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
2019 pour @Kool Keg. Tulip. Shiny cola, oatmeal head.. Earth, veg, sharp malt, smooth whiskey. Rich, mellow, dense, silky. Easy whiskey, carob & burnt coconut. Great burnt brown sugar edge to everything that lingers. Light chocolate near the end. Subtle oxidation. Right amount of constant pith bitterness. Really good, but you can tell it's not what it was. Notes from April 2008: Bottled: 10/11/07 Last bottle in this Top 100 BIF box received from kmpitz2. I've been dreading this one for a bit(just not my style). My reviews were due in about a month ago, but Kevin has assured me I would still receive partial credit & be able to go on the senior trip come the end of the semester. Yay! :D Into a Unibroue tulip this one goes. Nice & slow. The beer oozes out & collects quietly with just a whimper of activity right around the edge of the glass. A second pour to top it off yields a mushy bowl of Coco Crisps, but it doesn't last long. Black & boring, with hints of amber right at the rim. Big eye-watering scents of charcoal, liquorice, cocoa powder, caramelized onions, teriyaki & bbq sauces. Your can almost smell some crispy pork fat sizzling somewhere in there too. The alcohol hides behind everything, but doesn't come at you raw. The fumes though, however salivating, give me quite a headache. Moving on... Heavy espresso flavor, charred marshmallows, bitter chocolate, wood, tobacco smoke, & hard on with the whiskey & leather shoes. Oh man, I can't do, I just can't. I'm such a puss. ... The body is completely flat & feels like light cream going down(& I can dig that). The whiskey, the wood, & the intense tannins just kill me though. Close to four ounces in & I need some air in the worst way. I have such a headache. However good, however bad, it's just too much for a twelve ounce serving. The flavors are there, but the barrel flavors are just so concentrated & overdone, that it's way too much for me to sincerely enjoy. Maybe if it came in a two ounce nip aged half as long? Maybe some soft serve on the side? This review took almost an hour in the making, & boy did I try. Quarter ounce sip after half lung whiff, I tried. It made me realize just how insane some of you out there really are. :P
Tried
from Can
on 03 Mar 2023
at 23:15
10/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 10
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 10
2017 Super bowl sipper! (#57)...this pours just about straight black. Just a hint of light brown along the rim with light. Before I really get a chance to breathe it in I sip. Ridiculously creamy...wow. For all my senses Im getting dark chocolate... molasses..brown sugar. Sweet malt and essence of some fruit. Raisin prune even a little cherry.
Tried
on 12 Feb 2023
at 22:58