Bourbon County Brand Stout - Backyard
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.65
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This barrel-aged stout was first aged in bourbon barrels for at least one year, and then finished and blended with mulberries, boysenberries and marionberries. Each addition of berry contributes its own distinct flavor profile, with some adding sweetness and others providing acidity and complexity. A taste of the past, this imperial stout is a balanced and nuanced play on fresh fruit, vanilla, and chocolate.
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Lots of red fruit, really opens up the flavor.
Lots of red fruit, really opens up the flavor.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle poured into a snifter. Black with a fizzy brown head. Around is bourbon, chocolate, vanilla, dark berries. Initial taste is chocolate, bourbon, mulberries. Fades to an odd berry/chocolate balance. Full body and a little sting to the carbonation. Not their best version of this. Really odd berry aftertaste.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle to tulip. Pours black with big brown head. Aroma is restrained with moderate berry. Flavor shows chocolate, dusted chocolate, vanilla and various fresh berries. Tongue coating mouthfeel. Slightly viscous.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Quite sweet and fruity, berries, dark malts, seems a little thin on the body. Drinks fine.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared at craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. Many thanks to Tipple for this one. A opaque black brown coloured pour with a oily tan head. Aroma is tangy dark fruits, dark berry, alcohol. Banana. Bronw sugar. Banana. Raisin, brown sugars. Palate is medium sweet, light tang, oily
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle split at CBJ Tasting Night, thanks to Adrian, 09/04/2025.
Black topped with a khaki crown that thins to the edge.
Nose is chocolate, roast malts, spice, dried fruit rinds.
Taste comprises mellow booze, dark malts, dates, figs, minimal barrel, chocolate.
Full bodied, fine carbonation, drying close with a modest rising boost.
Okay sipper but lacking in barrel for me so a touch pedestrian for this series.
Malm� May 2024 tasting - rich dark sweet and roasted malts, silky chocolate, full bodied, getting some dark berry fruity accents into the bourbon infused sweet malty finish. Lovely. --- Beer merged from original tick of Bourbon County Brand Backyard Stout (2023) on 22 Jun 2024 at 17:34
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
2023 bottle poured, picked up at Norms. Dark, dense. Near black appearance. Almost no head here. Lots of barrel on the nose, dry oak, bourbon. Berries are really an afterthought here, and I could possibly even miss them in a blind. Come through a little better on the palate, with a subtle jammy character. Barely sweet, bourbon, molasses, some chocolate late. Really unique stout. Very fun addition to the always impressive line up of surprises each year.