Goose Island Beer Company Bourbon County Brand Caramella Ale

Bourbon County Brand Caramella Ale

 

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

  Barley Wine - Wheat Rotating Out of Production
Score
8.13
ABV: 14.6% IBU: 60 Ticks: 44
Caramella or ‘candy’ in Italian is a wheatwine aged in Larceny Wheated Bourbon barrels with apple, cinnamon, and natural caramel flavor added after aging. Just like last year, the sweet smoothness from the Larceny Wheated Bourbon barrels adds a lingering warmth that complements the added flavor nuance. It’s nostalgia-inducing flavors are reminiscent of a caramel apple. Our Lab Tech, Joey Tidei, created this variant as a tribute to his love of seasonal flavors. This luscious embodiment of caramel perfectly paired with a slightly-tart apple flavor will transport you to a crisp autumn day.
 

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

Tap Brewskival 2025-08-23 Helsingborg
AR: sweet caramel, wee fudge
AP: brown body, off-white wee head
F: sweet caramel, wee fudge

Tried from Draft at Brewski Brewery on 05 Oct 2025 at 20:59


6.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle @ Bad Seed Beer Fest, 2025. Pours Nearly Black with a beige head. Some base beer Thank god. A touch of Spice and Apple. How to almost fuck up the Perfect Beer.

Tried on 02 Sep 2025 at 16:17


8

Smooth, malty, slightly sweetish and fruity with some apples, syrup, toffee, oak, wheaty maltiness and barrel notes. Soft but complex.

Tried from Draft on 23 Aug 2025 at 15:35


7.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

EB at Taphouse

Tried from Draft at Taphouse on 27 Jul 2025 at 13:48


7.6
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Dark brown colour with no head.Aroma of this green nuts and cinnamon nice sweet warming taste and good warming mouth feels with hint of ice and barrel to nice by style.

Tried at Væskebalancen Bar & Bottleshop - Copenhagen on 07 Jul 2025 at 16:08


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Bottled 500ml or 568ml. -from Csak a Jó Sör Budapest. Brownish coloured, small off-white head, spices, light vanilla and some alcohol in the nose. Cinnamon, vanilla, light apple strudel notes and alcohol with sweet finish. Bit artificial.

Tried from Bottle at Csak a Jó Sör - Only Good Beer on 12 Jun 2025 at 00:08


8.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle care of a buddy, thanks Cory! Pours a deep copper with a finger of beige head that dissipates quickly. Big caramel aromas with apple, cinnamon, clove and allspice. Palate is very similar with caramel apples, cinnamon, clove and cardamom. Palate is smooth with bourbon and vanilla notes that both still shine loudly after 4 years. Really punches up and better than expected drinking in January of 2025.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Jan 2025 at 05:01



7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle: Poured a deep amber color ale with a brown foamy head with some retention and some lacing notes. Aroma of caramelized malt notes with some strong woody bourbon notes with traces of vanilla with some butterscotch notes. Taste is also a mix of deep caramelized notes with some woody bourbon notes with a semi-sweet finish and notes of vanilla and butterscotch notes with hints of cinnamon. Body is above average with good carbonation and some discernible alcohol notes. Interesting BA wheat wine but not sure about the caramel/butterscotch notes.

Tried from Bottle on 26 Feb 2024 at 20:26


8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle at pizza plant buffalo. Pours clear deep amber, nose is caramel, vanilla, coconut, winter spice, apple, taste is apple pie, caramel, vanilla, coconut, berries.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Nov 2023 at 02:42