Bourbon County Brand Stout - Rare 2024
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Special|
Score
7.83
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In 2010, we introduced a groundbreaking beer with our first-ever barrel expression variant. Our Bourbon County Brand Rare Stout highlighted the critical role barrels play as an ingredient. This iconic release set a new standard for barrel-aged beer.
This year, in celebration of the 10th anniversary of our barrel house, we are reintroducing that exceptional release. The journey of this beer began with barrels that once held the rare and highly sought-after King of Kentucky bourbon. After aging for a full year in these exceptionally nuanced barrels, our imperial rye stout started to capture the essence of Brown-Forman's remarkable craftsmanship and legacy. But we didn't stop there. We then transferred the aged stout to another set of King of Kentucky bourbon barrels, allowing it to mature for another full year. A testament to our heritage in barrel-aging, this 2024 Bourbon County Brand Rare Stout showcases a regal barrel expression with intricately woven caramels, rich cocoa, and a luxuriously long finish.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at share. Near black pour, paper thin beige head. Woody aroma, earthy, deep roasty notes, boozy. Taste opens with a strong bourbon character, very smooth, solid base of sweet, roasty notes. Burns a bit on the way down. Top notch brew
Intense with rye, bourbon, stingy wood, licorice, roastiness, oak, vanilla, chocolate and cocoa, some warming alcohol and wet barrel. Quite intense and heavy, complex slow sipper.
A tiny bit sweet, boozy. Lots of bourbon and some rye, dark chocolate, cocoa, excellent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle thanks to Chow. Pours black with small tan head. The aroma is rye bourbon, wood, smoke, peat. Slick body, bourbon, smoke, wood, very hot.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Flesje gedeeld door Keukenman. Diep donkerbruin bijna zwart bier, stroperig Aroma van bourbon, chocolade en koffie. Smaak is zacht, bourbon -achtig, koffie en chocolade. Nasmaak van chocolade en koffie met wat pit.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Fles gekregen van Keukeman, gedeeld met Inoven en Benzai. Het is een dik zwart bier. Het heeft een aroma van Bourbon, gebrande eik, vanille, toffee. De smaak is vol, Bourbon, vanille en chocolade.