Bourbon County Brand Stout - Sir Isaac's
(has 1 batch)
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
8.07
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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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7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500ml shared with Ryan celebrating his 37th birthday. Appearance: dark brown with beige head. Aroma: cookies, figs, some American oak, and chocolate. Taste: along the same lines, seems lacking body a bit, considering the ABV. Overall: pretty good, but not exceptional like some of the BCBS variants could be.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Sep 2023
at 06:06
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Poured from 500mL bottle (2022 vintage; courtesy of Beerplace; birthday beer). Near black with small beige head. Figgy dark fruit and molasses with bourbon and a hint of light cookie dough. Like a bourbon doused Fig Newton. Enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2023
at 06:05
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Just realized I never entered my notes from last year's BCS media event: This has the sweetest nose of the beers tonight. Like a Christmas pudding or maybe a fruitcake. This leaves less alcohol in the nose. There’s fruit leather and a note of cinnamon. I could not quite catch any hint of Graham flour to complete the “cookie” taste. Luckily, the figs only add their flavor added to the beer, and we don’t have to think about how, like sausage, it’s best to skip the subject of how figs are pollinated.
Tried
on 04 Sep 2023
at 19:08
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Fat på Brewskival 2023. Från 2022. Svart med brun tät krona. Fruktig med torkad frukt, fikon och mörka druvor/russin mot bakgrund av mörk choklad, marsipanbröd, fat, aningen lakrisal. Lite mjukare och lättare kropp på ett bra sätt, väldigt smooth. Gott och snyggt.
Tried
on 19 Aug 2023
at 09:53
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500mL bottle, pours jet black with it's a small tan head. Aroma is wonderfully complex, with lots of figs, bourbon barrels, brown sugars, and dark dried fruit. Flavour is wonderfully complex, with deep dark fruits — loads of figs especially — with brown sugar, bourbon barrels and a touch of molasses. Pretty wonderful adjuncts in here. Luxurious, nicely boozy and still bourbon-heavy. Lovely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jul 2023
at 03:57