Bourbon County Brand Stout - Cherry Wood
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
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7.95
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At the heart of each Bourbon County are the wood characteristics we thoughtfully amplify. This year, we took wood complexities to another level by doing something we’ve never done before: we took fully-matured Bourbon County Stout and finished it with toasted fruitwood—specifically, honeycomb-shaped cherry wood chips. The versatility of the cherry wood and honeycomb shape allowed for maximum flavor extraction, revealing complex characteristics like red fruit, ripe cherry, and light toffee, which are not found in the original oak barrel itself. The result is an amazing elevation and a notable difference from our Original Bourbon County Stout.
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8/10
Tons of oaky, honey, cherry chocolate sweetness. I think this and the last bourbon county were from you FlandersNed , thanks!
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2024
at 21:31
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at Erin's. Pours black, nose is chocolate, coconut, vanilla, woody, cherry, taste is similar, bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2023
at 23:09
8/10
Tried
on 25 Nov 2023
at 18:08
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
2021 bottle drunk 11/1/23. Dark, clear, filtered, small, tan head quickly to ring. Fruity and lightly woody. Light, vague bourbon. Not too sweet, certainly no rich or sumptuous caramel or chocolate. A hint of alcohol to start but it burns off immediately. Soft, fruity, silky though not as thick as usual for the brand. Not syrupy. Peppery bourbon with a hint of lead. Could use some rich chocolate character but in it's place is dark fruit laced dark chocolate. Wow this is relatively dry. But it's clean and not alcoholic either. Lingering cherry, pepper and vanilla with a bit of raisin and prune. With all of the fruit-forward character and relative dryness it comes off as more of a classic RIS (I mean, along those lines, certainly not exactly).
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Nov 2023
at 23:11
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
2021 bottle to tulip glass. Pours black with a massive brown head that fades until it is a miniscule ring of small bubbles. Aroma of dark chocolate, chocolate powder. Flavor is chocolate and wood. Sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2023
at 05:26
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Malmö team tasting at Palace Hall, Malmö, Sweden (15/04/2023) - intense sweet and roasted dark malty loads of rich opulent chocolate, imparted with rich bourbon barrel action, some cherry accents do indeed shine through, full bodied, smooth mouthfeel, bourbon cherry kissed lingering malty close.
Tried
on 16 Apr 2023
at 11:21
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, 500 ml at charity tasting Wien 2022. Shared with Miro B, Werckmeister and others. Black with tan head. Chocolate, cocoa, some coffee, caramel, barrel, bourbon. Smooth. Somewhat thin. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2023
at 05:51
8.4/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2023
at 22:52
8/10
Dark black body medium foamy tan head. Roast chocolate fruity toffee aroma. Toffee caramel fruit molasses flavor. Full body low carbonation. 8/5/8/4/17 4.2
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2023
at 16:59
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Pours a deep motor oil black from a bottle, thick. Chocolate and rich roast malt aroma. Flavor is dutch cocoa, unburnt wood, starts slightly sweet but with a dryer finish, some tannins are present. Very good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2023
at 06:00