Goose Island Beer Company Bourbon County Brand Stout - Backyard

Bourbon County Brand Stout - Backyard

 

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

  Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production
Score
7.65
ABV: 12.9% IBU: - Ticks: 42
Feeling nostalgic this year, we dove into our Bourbon County vault and pulled out an iconic recipe. In 2013, we released “Backyard Rye” and our senior innovation manager Mike Siegel found himself hand picking mulberries off trees just steps away from our Goose Island Barrel House in Chicago. Inspired by that initial release and by his own childhood memories of picking fruit in his own backyard, Mike set to work on this year’s Bourbon County Backyard Stout.⁠

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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6.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

2023 bottle shared at tasting. Dark brown color, tan head. Aroma definitely has a lot of red fruit / berries. Flavor fortunately has a little less red fruit and in the end I quite like it. Not bad. Far from the best ofc but still alright.

Tried on 25 Jan 2024 at 23:15


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. A- Berries, cocoa. A- Black color, black liquid, minimal head. T- Berries, booze, chocolate, slightly roasty. P- Full body, average texture, average carbonation, balanced finish. O- Lots of berry. I've never been a huge fan of berries in stout, but it's well made. Probably my least favorite BCBS variant I've tasted but a solid beer.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Jan 2024 at 01:43


8

Fruited stout done well! Nice balance of barrel and fruit. Dark fruit, raspberries, bourbon, blended yummy.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Jan 2024 at 19:20


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle thanks to Brian. Pours a dark brown with small beige head that lasts. The aroma is bourbon, berry, wood. Slick body, boysenberry, spice, wood, boozy finish, very good.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Jan 2024 at 22:30


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Dark brown. It'�s quite fruity, bullish barrel, raisins and walnuts sort of thing here. Decent.

Tried on 31 Dec 2023 at 07:14


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle. Pours a dark ruby and brown hue with a small head. A big boozy nose, berries and chocolate. Deep sugary berries, sweet bourbon, ashy, licorice. Tart edges of berries. Damn good.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Dec 2023 at 07:29


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Rating #15000. Crazy. 50cl bottle was given to me as a gift by my rugby guys and split with the DC tasting group. Says a lot. Wish the beer was better! Pours a thick brown with a ring of beige head. Legs. lots of legs. Nose is mostly booze, some berry, some port. Flavor is grape and barrel and the stout base arrives late. Plenty of port. Hot finish with barrels and grapes.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Dec 2023 at 21:17


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from the Packie Inky black in color with a thin short lived off white head. Roasty chocolate roast and syrupy licorice. Non de script fruit and faint alcohol. More berry in the flavor cuts through some of the over the top sweetness.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Dec 2023 at 03:57


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

500ml bottle pours out black topped with a small tan head. Nose is sweet chocolate roast malts bourbon barrel we all know and some jammy berries. Taste is more of the nice sweet chocolate berries and a great barrel.

Tried from Bottle on 25 Dec 2023 at 22:18


8.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

Black with a small tan head that faded quickly. Toasty with cocoa, bourbon, molasses, berries, wood and caramel. Very long finish. Full bodied and smooth.

Tried on 25 Dec 2023 at 21:51