Bourbon County Brand Stout - Café de Olla
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
8.07
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Created in partnership with our next door neighbors, Intelligentsia Coffee, Café de Olla is inspired by the traditional Mexican beverage of the same name. We added coffee beans and cold coffee to Original Bourbon County Stout and then enhanced this beer further through additions of cassia bark, orange peel, and panela sugar. The resulting beer is layered in complexity. Coffee and orange permeate the nose and are followed by notes of cinnamon, chocolate, and a pleasant sweetness.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours black with small tan head that lasts. The aroma is roast, cocoa, orange zest, wood, bourbon. Slick body, orange, cocoa, spice, boozy, very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Dec 2022
at 23:55
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured from 500mL bottle (2019 vintage; drink by 08 Aug 2021). Black with dissipating tan head. Mild cassia bark, sweet chocolate, very feint hint of orange peel, light bourbon character.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2022
at 04:49
8/10
Tried
on 19 Feb 2022
at 20:22
8/10
A deep dark stout with a very thin brown head. In aroma, sweet fruity chocolate malt with dark fruits, licorice, light coffee grind, musty character, alcohol warmth, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet chocolate malt with dark fruits, light coffee grind, alcohol warmth, light vanilla, very nice and rich. On tap at Toronto brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Aug 2021
at 18:50
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500ml bottle. Heavy with coffee notes, mocha, spices, roastiness and cocoa, some chocolate, bourbon and earthiness. Quite heavy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 May 2021
at 13:49
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. From Trade. 2019. Domed by myself. Pours Black with a collapsing beige head. Bourbon, toffee, rutebiler, cinnamon and orange peel. Slick, smooth and oily. Roasted, vinous and dry. Slight warmth. Excellent sipper.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 May 2021
at 20:19
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
2019 bottle to tulip glass. Aroma is cinnamon, orange peel and day old coffee. Very deep brown with minimal brown head that disappears. Flavor is boozy barrels with powdered chocolate and iced coffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Apr 2021
at 06:30
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500mL bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Nose is full of rich, earthy coffee, moderate bourbon barrel presence, and a little spicy cinnamon. Flavour is pretty decadent, bringing out the cold brew coffee upfront, gentle cinnamon, a little orange peel, and molasses -- of course, it's all rounded out by the bourbon. This one doesn't seem all that exceptional to me. The coffee is nice, but there's almost a herbal character to it. This definitely isn't on the same level as many other BCS variants, let alone the base beer. The palate also isn't as exquisite as the regular BCS. Notwithstanding my criticism, it's still excellent, just not amazing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2021
at 03:58
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle care of Jon. Thanks! Pours a pitch black with a finger of brown foam that dissipates. Bright orange peel comes through at first with bourbon, coffee and light cinnamon notes. As it warms more orange and cassia bark on the palate with well-integrated bourbon barrel notes, cacao nib and coffee. Great depth and balance. Not super thick-bodied but definitely full bodied and rich. Some umami as it warms, with lingering warming bourbon, orange zest and cinnamon. Great stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2020
at 03:47
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
On tap at Dive Bar. Pours black. Coffee, cinnamon, good quality coffee, jaggery, rose, pepper, bourbon, oak. Decent body. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Nov 2020
at 02:08