Big John
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.81
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Ferris (26026) reviewed Big John from Goose Island Beer Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle - Dark roast and lots of chocolate. Jet black with a thin brown head. Roast, bitter and a nice cocoa. Nice body and a finish of malted milk. Great beer.
GenDV138 (9249) reviewed Big John from Goose Island Beer Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Draft at ChurchKey poured into a tasting snifter. Pours black with around a half finger of tan head. Some brown hues around the edges of the glass. Aromas of dark fruit, caramel, dark chocolate, roast. Tasting notes of dark fruit including raisins, caramel, toffee, dark chocolate, roast, molasses. A bit of booze but fairly smooth. Full body with a dry finish. Oily syrupy mouthfeel with light carbonation. Very nice.
_angst_ (8410) reviewed Big John from Goose Island Beer Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bottle thanks to summer santa 2013. Thank you jsquire! Pours viscous reddish black with a small frothy dark mocha head that quickly dissipates without leaving much trace on the glass. Smell is sweet and malty with roasted malts, dark chocolate, banana bread, vanilla ice cream, alcohol, salty liquorice candy, raisins, oatmeal cookies, caramel, soil and sweetened dark roast coffee. Taste is sweet, bitter, malty and slightly estery with roasted malts, ripe banana, dark chocolate, vanilla ice cream (essentially banana split), dark roast coffee, toffee, caramel, oatmeal cookies, sweet liquorice candy, vanilla fudge, alcohol and hay. Mouthfeel is round, soft, silky, tiny bitter astringent and full bodied. Finish is slightly sweet, slightly bitter and malty with roasted malts, bitter chocolate, banana bread, vanilla fudge, hay, alcohol, toffee, moist soil, raisin brans and oatmeal cookies. Must confess I expected less but this is a very tasty and nicely estery imperial stout and the mouthfeel is BCBS good. --- Beer merged from original tick of Big John Imperial Stout on 11 Feb 2014 at 21:01 - Score: 8
fonefan (84534) reviewed Big John from Goose Island Beer Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle 22fl.oz.Clear dark brown - black colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, light brown to beige head. Aroma is light heavy malty, roasted, coffee, chocolate, English licorice. Flavour is light heavy sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, roasted, malt bitter. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20131122]
gunnfryd (21926) reviewed Big John from Goose Island Beer Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Black colour with a tan head. Aroma is wood, roasted malt, cocoa, alcohol. Flavour is wood, vanilla, cocoa, roasted malt, cocos, coffee, chocolate. full body. Very nice beer.
DerPhilynck (3851) ticked Big John from Goose Island Beer Company 12 years ago
trapped (8300) reviewed Big John from Goose Island Beer Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Drought. Dark brown with reddish tint, small foamy beige head, sweet caramel like taste with strong mocha and sour cherry aroma, long bitter finish. The sweet and bitter tastes seem to coexist without mingling well. Could be better.
Brugmansia (22477) ticked Big John from Goose Island Beer Company 12 years ago
Travlr (30173) reviewed Big John from Goose Island Beer Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft. Extremely dark brown color, dark brown head with good retention and solid lacing. Aroma of Hershey bars dipped in edpresso. Taste is smooth coffee, vanilla, cocoa. Very nice.
Bamsen78 (8674) reviewed Big John from Goose Island Beer Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ Scooper Tasting in Ulfborg. Pours cloudy nearly black with small tan head. Clear aroma of coffe, malt, and chocolate. Sweet flavour of malt and dark chocolate, with notes of cofee and clear touches of alcohol. Good, distinct finish of oak barrel aged beer. Very nice.