Goose Island Beer Company Bourbon County Brand Stout - Sir Isaac's (2022)

Bourbon County Brand Stout - Sir Isaac's (2022)
(Batch of Bourbon County Brand Stout - Sir Isaac's)

 

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

  Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production
Score
7.77
ABV: 13.9% IBU: - Ticks: 48
For years, brewers at Goose Island have brainstormed ways to incorporate figs in Bourbon County Stout, but faced a daunting task due to their subtle flavor. After fresh thinking from members of the Goose Island E-commerce team, Melissa Alleguez and Ryan Hubona crafted a recipe inspired by Melissa’s childhood memories of stealing fig cookies out of her grandma’s cookie jar during her summers on Lake Michigan. And thus, the fig cookie and graham cracker-inspired Sir Isaac’s Stout was created. Highlighting the dried fried profiles extracted from the bourbon in the barrels, our brewers used Black Mission figs (10,000 pounds of them, to be specific) to create this variant resulting in characteristics of dried fruit, honey, molasses, and citrus, all reminiscent of the classic fig cookie sold on shelves today.
 

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7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Aroma is dark dried fruity, bordering slightly souris or tart, figs, alc. bite, chocolate, roasted malts.Flavor is as advertised chocolate cookies, or perhaps dry chocolate cake, but the figs are much more subtle than in the aroma, the overall feel is sweet, not dark fruity, tastes like a good dessert chocolate cake with frosting and all. bit sweet. very pastry stoutish, but fairly taste although quite sweet. good dark chocolate, there is some faint dark dried fruits just before the ending. quite complex.

Tried from Bottle from Kihoskh on 14 Sep 2025 at 11:13


8

Malm� April tasting - sweet and roasted dark malty with lots of rich chocolate, some fudge and toffee, getting the fig notes coming through nicely, dark dried fruity figs, bourbon infused malty base, lingering sweet dark malty close. Beautiful.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Mar 2025 at 05:37


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

Dark brown, with a thin head. Nice fig, a bit of booze, decent complexity. Deep fruitiness. I like the fig thing going on here. Excellent.

Tried from Bottle from A1 Hop Shop 104th on 06 Feb 2025 at 05:26


Bottle, 500 ml, courtesy of and shared with Brada. Black with beige head. Nice roastiness, deep chocolate, cocoa, some figs, medium+ sweetness. Medium bodied.

Tried from Bottle on 03 Nov 2024 at 23:00


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

Bottle from Binny's. Thanks Adam for making this available! Pours a deep brown to black with a finger of brown head that lingers. Fig, graham and bourbon all present on the nose with chocolate and vanilla notes as it warms. Bourbon focused on the palate but the fig really stands out next to the BCBS base. Lingering bourbon, fig, chocolate and vanilla on the finish.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Mar 2024 at 04:41


BVB dispatch AC Milan and are into the knockouts of the Champions League.

Nice stout. Barrel, figs, little graham cracker.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Nov 2023 at 20:18


8

Wfg’23, a bit sharp, young, but a nice bourbon taste,

Tried from Bottle on 21 Oct 2023 at 17:40


8

Sweetish, slightly roasty and heavy with figs, prunes, dried fruits, bourbon and warming alcohol. A bit heavy

Tried from Draft on 12 Aug 2023 at 14:11



8

Bottle split 4 ways. Aroma is grahm cracker, fig, dark chocolate. Taste is licorice, burnt caramel, lots of fig.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jan 2023 at 14:39