Bourbon County Brand Stout - Anniversary (10-Year)
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
8.29
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Expect notes of dried fruit, bourbon, chocolate, and vanilla in what will most likely be the strongest beer of the lineup.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle pour courtesy of Chalumeaux in a share--thanks, TJ! It's an opaque black with decent viscosity, no sparkle or head. Aroma is strong bourbon, toffee, chocolate. Taste is bourbon over sweet and roasted malt, chocolate, toffee, oak. Mouthfeel light-to-medium bodied with smooth, thin texture, soft carbonation, nice alcohol warmth. Overall, really smooth. Everything in nice balance and great complexity.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Thanks going to Chalumeaux on this share. Aroma is oak, spice, chocolate, toasty. The flavor is just fantastic. Rich Weller 12 year with the BCS base imperial stout. Not even hot considering the ABV. (Not for me anyhow). Awesome mouthfeel. Really great.
Aroma is dried fruit, vanilla, barrel. Taste is luscious, creamy, flavors are well integrated, abv is well hidden. This is really nice.
FLM, the stronger the bourbon the sweeter the juice.
Piekna beczkowosc, ale mniej ciala niz nawet podstawki. Szkoda ciala. Lekki alko posmak. Rozczarowanko.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
Bottle shared at Blacked Out Friday. Pours a thick and viscous pitch black with a small brown head. Dark chocolate, dark brownie, wood, vanilla and bourbon notes throughout. Similar on the palate with loads of dark chocolate brownie chunks and bourbon. Long finish that lingers.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle from the Media tasting. Opened, then stoppered, so let's finish it before it goes stale. Still some fizz, though, when I flip the stopper. Pours some cola-like foam that fizzes away immediately, leaving a solid black beer. This has one of the stronger bourbon noses I've encountered in the series, and a touch of barrel char. Some maple and vanilla on the side. Taste is pretty sweet, maybe I'd even call it sugary. But still with a strong bourbon taste that overwhelms the usual imperial stout roastiness. A bit of oak in the taste. The dried fruit that usually accompanies an impy stout is there, in the back. The extra year of aging gives this more pizazz, making for a new favorite BCS.