Goose Island Beer Company Bourbon County Brand Stout - Double Barrel Elijah Craig

Bourbon County Brand Stout - Double Barrel Elijah Craig

 

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

  Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production
Score
8.45
ABV: 18.1% IBU: 60 Ticks: 19
Bourbon County Double Barrel Stout has a depth and flavor that can only be achieved through time, patience, and partnership. This stout was first aged 12 months in 11-year-old Elijah Craig barrels from our friends at Heaven Hill distilleries. We then emptied the beer from those barrels and filled fresh 12-year-old Elijah Craig barrels, the same barrels that housed the Whisky Advocate 2017 Whisky Of The Year. We let it age for another year in those barrels and the result is a stout like no other. Incredibly intense, this beer will be a true gem for the faithful fans that seek it out and get to try it.
 

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8

Cacao, roasted malts, typical sharp Elijah Craig Bourbon, had this the same with a fifty fifty ba, boozy, nibs, sharp BA Bourbon County..

Tried from Bottle on 05 Mar 2022 at 21:09


9
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

500ml bottle. Heavy, warming and sweetish with loads of barrel, bourbon, oak, vanilla, wood, toffee, syrup, caramel, molasses, chocolate, cocoa and warming alcohol. Complex, super well balanced and tasty. Awesome stuff. --- Beer merged from original tick of Bourbon County Brand Double Barrel Stout (2019) on 29 May 2021 at 14:54 - Score: 9. Original review text: Lovely barrel notes. Super well balanced and much more complex than regular one

Tried from Bottle on 29 May 2021 at 11:58


9

FLW Gdamn that's some fire ass concentrated barrel, so smooth.

Tried on 25 Apr 2021 at 07:11


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Glass, 6 ounces, draught, drunk at Goose Island Taproom, trip to Dark Lord Day with Luc Bourbonnière, savoured on May 19, 2019; eye: black, opaque, no effervescence, no head, no lacing; nose: bourbon, light whiskey, alcohol, coffee, anise, light soy sauce, ink; mouth: bourbon, light whisky, alcohol, coffee, anise, light soy sauce, ink, alcohol warmth, finale in whisky with presence of anise, full-bodied, slightly below average carbonation, mildly sweet, alcoholic texture; overall: fine

FRANÇAIS
Verre, 6 onces, en fût, bue chez Goose Island Taproom, voyage à Dark Lord Day avec Luc Bourbonnière, savourée le 19 mai 2019; œil : noire, opaque, pas d'effervescence, pas de mousse, pas de dentelle; nez : bourbon, léger whisky, alcool, café, anis, léger sauce soya, encre; bouche : bourbon, léger whisky, alcool, café, anis, léger sauce soya, encre, chaleur d'alcool, finale en whisky avec présence d'anis, corsée, carbonatation légèrement sous la moyenne, moyennement sucrée, texture alcoolique; en résumé : bien

Tried from Draft on 22 May 2020 at 19:10



8.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

About 4 Ounce draft at the official tasting in Philadelphia. The aroma is a boatload of oak, char, fresh bourbon. The base stout is here as expected. The head brewer in Philadelphia said this came in right under 18%. I mean in the flavor this is the most bourbon forward of all of the 2019 variance. ( as expected). Real good but massively bourbon forward.

Tried from Draft on 30 Nov 2019 at 08:54


8.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

From the bottle at Goose Island Philadelphia for the $120 tasting they had with drinks & food. 4ish ounces? a lighter brown edges on the glass. doesn't have the oily look I'm used to. That is a TON of oak! almost firey. wowzerz. This is not quite as complex as 2015's BCS Rare but it surprisingly has a lot more barrel, more carbonation (thank goodness) and a more stout, campfire, charcoal like flavor. It's really delicious sippable and worth savoring. IT's a 2person beer for sure. Not sure I'd want a full bottle myself. The 18% ABV...well hidden.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Nov 2019 at 19:04


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

A deep dark stout with no head, oily. In aroma, sweet fruity chocolate malt with loads of licorice, bourbon barrel, soy, very nice and complex. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity chocolate malt with loads of licorice, aniseed, dark fruits, alcohol warmth, very nice and complex. On tap at brewery.

Tried from Draft on 19 May 2019 at 17:55


9

Cheers Dan!

Tried from Crowler on 11 May 2019 at 12:12