Dapper Rye
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Special Out of Production|
Score
7.83
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This year at Goose Island, we are celebrating 36 years of brewing Chicago’s beer. For the occasion, we were fortunate enough to get our hands on not one, but two separate sets of “Birthday” bourbon barrels. Starting with our imperial rye stout, we aged this beer in the first set of barrels for a full year. Wanting to really showcase those exceptional barrels, we transferred that beer to a second set of freshly emptied “Birthday” barrels.
Raising a toast to another year of incredible beer, this elegant stout threads together a spirited and lightly herbal barrel personality with a balance of caramelized sugar. As sophisticated as it is delicious, our limited release Dapper Rye is a fête in barrel-aged stouts.
Raising a toast to another year of incredible beer, this elegant stout threads together a spirited and lightly herbal barrel personality with a balance of caramelized sugar. As sophisticated as it is delicious, our limited release Dapper Rye is a fête in barrel-aged stouts.
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7.9/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 8.5
Super nice, smooth, strong and powerfuæ bourbon and roasted malts above average even for GI.
Flavor is lots of barrel aged craracter and a bit oxidation, roasted malts, licorice coconut, vanilla, mostly roasted malts. Very very faint dark caramel note
Holds it's high abv really well
Tap at taphouse
Flavor is lots of barrel aged craracter and a bit oxidation, roasted malts, licorice coconut, vanilla, mostly roasted malts. Very very faint dark caramel note
Holds it's high abv really well
Tap at taphouse
Tried
from Draft
at
Taphouse
on 18 Oct 2025
at 15:43
7.9/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 9
Overall 7.5
Bourbon, wood, rye, chocolate malt, and fresh hay aroma. Black with small brown head. Moderately sweet bourbon, caramel chocolate rye malt, and moderately bitter grass and alcohol flavor. Nice body - boozy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Aug 2024
at 01:03
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle thanks to Dee. Pours a dark brown with small tan head that lasts. The aroma is strong rye, chocolate malt, roast, wood, booze. Slick body, graham cracker, roast, dark fruit, rye, dry finish, very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2024
at 01:03