Goose Island Beer Company Bourbon County Brand Stout

Bourbon County Brand Stout

 

Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Winter
Score
8.48
ABV: 14.3% IBU: 60 Ticks: 551
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
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

2017 bottle tasted in 2025. very integrated aroma with notes of boutbon, wood, salt licorice, vanilla, roasted malts, coffee, faint charred wood, faint hard roasted malts. the beer has settled exceptionally well. there might be a very faint sort of hint of oxidation.
flavor is extremeley smooth and velvety salt licorice and wood and roasted malts and bourbon, the other notes really makes the bourbon shine, end is not super strong but there is a nice long lasting roasted malty end, that seems to go on forever.

Tried from Bottle from Kihoskh on 20 Sep 2025 at 17:31


7

Magus, mõru, šokolaadine, vanilje, röst, linnaseline, nats alksi. Ok.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Sep 2025 at 17:33


7

Угостили

Tried on 03 Sep 2025 at 23:55



8

A b8t sweet, boozy, rich and malty. Bourbon and some chocolate, smooth, a very nice vintage.

Tried on 15 Aug 2025 at 17:03


9.3
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Tapphuset . Först reagerar att bara en lagt in ölen (2023) varianten på siten!? Kan vara att den sällan letar sig till EU och betygsättande verkar vara Européer. Ja jag vet inte bara spekulation . I vilket fall är detta ju en känd letar öl . Ja sån öl ölnördar letar efter .
Utseende = meningslöst
Doft = jag skiter i
Ha ja ja Hur smakar drycken då?
Jo här har vi bourbon 70% och därefter choklad 🤔30% kanske . Ölen är så jävla lik The Bruery Super tuesday en av mina favorit öl .
SUPERGOD

Tried on 09 Aug 2025 at 13:07



8.1
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Small sample from bottle.
Poured pitch black with a thin brown head.
Strong bourbon nose, roastedness, sweet malty, heavy and warming. Slow sipper for sure but delightful.

Tried from Bottle at Juova Hanahuone on 04 Aug 2025 at 13:04


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7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

0.5 l bottle from 'Beyond Beer', 2024 vintage at 14.7% abv. Pitch black with a thin, frothy, quickly diminishing, light brown head. Sweetish-malty, gently roasty, slightly fruity and a little umami aroma of dark chocolate, coffee, bourbon, some soy sauce and light hazelnut. Quite sweet, malty, fairly roasty, gently boozy taste of dark chocolate, mocha, roasted hazelnut, vanilla, quite some bourbon and traces of dark fruits, followed by a long, fairly roasty-bitter, gently boozy and a little harsh finish. Almost full-bodied, gently effervescent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Good beer, but also quite overrated. Relatively unrefined and boozy, a little fizzy and not nearly as smooth as the best stouts. Nice to try, but not the revelation I was hoping for.

Tried from Bottle from Beyond Beer on 02 Aug 2025 at 18:21