Bourbon County Brand Stout - Cherry Wood
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
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
Tried
on 19 Feb 2022
at 20:23
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours deep black, medium tan head, decent lacing. Aroma is cocoa, bourbon, vanilla, hint of cherry and a touch of cola. Flavor is medium plus sweet, light plus bitter. Not really better than the baseline
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jan 2022
at 02:04
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from 8 Degrees Plato. Pours a pitch black with a finger of dark tan head that lingers. Lovely bourbon focused nose with cherry wood aromas, dark chocolate and a nutmeg/cinnamon note in the background. More of the same on the palate. Nice body, good carbonation. Great barrel integration throughout. Another great BCBS variant from GI.
Tried
from Bottle
at
8 Degrees Plato Beer Company - Detroit
on 01 Jan 2022
at 05:27
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Nugget Market in Woodland, CA. Pours dark brn/blk with a slight transient tan head. Aroma of chocolate and burnt malt with a very slight fruit note - arguably cherry. Full bodied. Flavor is chocolate, burnt malt (lots of sugar) and discernible dark cherry. Chocolate is the main thing tho. Far from dry; approaching sticky. Burnt malt bitter. Cherry comes out reasonably firm in the finish - but not a juicy cherry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2021
at 03:01
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Craft Beer Cellar Nashua Inky black with a thin tan head that recedes. Sticky syrupy cloying only saved by the bourbon and hints of sweet tannin. Decent sipper
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Dec 2021
at 04:14
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
On draft at Dominion Wine and Beer. Pour black with a tan head. Aromas are bourbon, barrel and vanilla. Flavors are sweet dark chocolate and vanilla with some nice heat to finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Dec 2021
at 23:29
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
500 ml bottle. Pours a very dark brown with short tan head. Aromas of soft bourbon, oak, maybe a little cherry and chocolate, and slick roasted malts. Flavours of rich chocolate nougat, oak, cherry, light sweet bourbon, and oily roasted malts. Bitter chocolate finish with a bit of alcohol heat. Super
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2021
at 01:45
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Taster shared with Matt at A1 Hop Shop 144th. Appearance: dark brown with a dark beige head. Aroma: very fruity forward with cherry syrup notes. Taste: along the same Iines, tons of dark sweet cherries character, some molasses. Overall: weird, but not bad.
Tried
on 27 Nov 2021
at 20:45
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at A1 Hop Shop 144th, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma is full of the cherry wood, reframing an almost syrupy cherry character, along with roasted malt and subdued bourbon barrels. Flavour is similar and unusual, with syrupy cherry, cloying sweetness, subdued bourbon. This one I'm not sold on — the syrupy character is too much for me. I'll revisit in a bottle to see if it's any better.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Nov 2021
at 20:40
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500 ml bottle. The aroma is toasted wood, chocolate malt, bourbon. The wood gives a slightly different characteristic than the regular bourbon county. It shows a little bit more toasted wood and tannins. Pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2021
at 22:07