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

Bourbon County Brand Stout - Sir Isaac's

 

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

  Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production
Score
8.08
ABV: 13.9% IBU: - Ticks: 51
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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Tried from Bottle on 24 Oct 2025 at 20:37

gave a cheers!

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


8.3
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle @ Vinspecialisten , Aalborg. Pours black with a small head. Slight roast , Wood and Dark fruit. The crackers for sure. Slick and oily. Lovely barrel. Tough. 4.3

Tried on 17 Aug 2025 at 07:44


8.8
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9

Bottle: Poured a pitch-black color stout with a dark brown foamy head with some retention and some lacing notes. Aroma of chocolate notes with some bourbon notes and light vanilla with residual sugar notes. Taste is also a mix of chocolate notes with some vanilla notes with some bourbon and vanilla notes and a sweet finale with figs and light graham cracker notes. Body is pretty full with an oily texture and good carbonation with no real discernible alcohol notes. Nice variant of the original bourbon stout with good chocolate flavors with sweet finish.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Apr 2025 at 20:39


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

Black with a low brown head - Malt and some dark fruity armas - DArk malt body with chocolate , dark fruity notes and wood barrel flavours - Malt with chocolate. some fruity notes and wood flavours goes into the finish - This was real good

Tried on 13 Feb 2025 at 19:38


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


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

bottle Shared with friends during our annual Christmas darts/beer night. 2022 bottle - loved it - complex, another great Goose Island

Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2024 at 22:44


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

old review from notes. I liked this more than some bourbon county beers, on the sweet side, lots of dried fruit and sugar. noticeable alcohol.

Tried on 24 Dec 2024 at 19:55