Bourbon County Brand Stout - Backyard
(has 1 batch)
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.70
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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.
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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6.6/10
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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
7.1/10
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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
7.9/10
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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
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at share. Near black pour, not much action. Toasty aroma with some jammy notes. Taste is sweet, fruity, oily, solid Imperial Stout base, but the jammy notes linger and define the character of this beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Dec 2023
at 05:17
8.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Draft at Harvest. Pours an unclear deep brown to black with a finger of brown head that lingers. Big wildberry aromas with marionberry, blackberry and raspberry dominating. Berry acidity, dark chocolate, bourbon and vanilla on the palate. Nice full bodied imperial stout with a well-rounded mouthfeel. Tart berry, dark chocolate, milk chocolate and bourbon on the finish. Very good.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Dec 2023
at 04:42
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
bottle. shared one (cellared another) - be interesting to see how this ages. the sweetness of the unique berries was impressive - ideal in a 4-5oz sample as the sweetness could be overwhelming. again, looking forward to how this matures
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2023
at 13:33