Bourbon County Brand Barleywine - Coffee
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Barley Wine - Barley Rotating Out of Production|
Score
8.09
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Working with our friends at Intelligentsia, we flew down to Guatemala to source some of the world's best coffee to use as we release the first-ever Coffee Barleywine. The beer is an English-style Barleywine, meaning malt forward, and aged in 4+ year old Heaven Hill Bourbon barrels before adding La Soledad coffee beans right before packaging to retain a bold coffee aroma and flavor.
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle pours out dark cola brown topped with a small head. Nose is nice sweet caramel malts Bourbon Barrel vanilla coffee very nice. Taste is more of the nice sweet malts coffee and a great bourbon barrel vanilla note.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Dec 2018
at 04:33
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Draught @ Goose Island Pub, Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas. Smooth, roasty and malty with loads of coffee, chocolate, bourbon, oak, wood and espresso notes. Quite tasty mix of coffee, barley wine and bourbon. Great one.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2018
at 03:23
9/10
Tried
on 30 Nov 2018
at 19:25
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
6 oz. Draft at GI. Brewhouse, Philadelphia. Light brownish color, coffee comes off strong and nutty and notes of raisins. For a fresh barley wine, it is rather subtle. Dark fruit is a undertone, lasting coffee, with a mildly warming after the sip. All considered, nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Nov 2018
at 18:43
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at Goose Island Brewhouse in Philly. 8 ounce pour, pretty chilly pour on draft. Dark reddish brown, small thin yellow head. Smells of creamy coffee, a bit of mocha, brown sugar, leather, molasses and candy corns. Sweet flavor, lingering boozy finish but very approachable up front, closer to a Belgian dark ale with candy sugar than a barley wine, coffee is muted, light almost cold like with sugar. Tasty, would love to see it in a few years.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Nov 2018
at 18:16