Goose Island Beer Company Bourbon County Brand Northwoods Stout (2017)

Bourbon County Brand Northwoods Stout (2017)
(Batch of Bourbon County Brand Stout - Northwoods)

 

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

  Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production
Score
7.86
ABV: 13.2% IBU: 60 Ticks: 50
Bourbon County Brand Northwoods Stout - Stout aged in bourbon barrels with blueberry juice and almond extract added. Aromas of rich dark chocolate, fresh blueberry, and nutty marzipan.
 

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7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
Poured from a 500 ml bottle. Aroma is fairly strong marzipan and blueberries upfront. Lighter chocolate and roast notes with hints of bourbon and oak. Light alcohol spice. Pours black with a medium sized, thick, mocha head that recedes somewhat quickly to the edges where a thin film lingers. No lacing and moderately long to long legs. Flavor is very sweet with a ton of chocolate, dark caramel and sugar. Lighter blueberry and almond notes. Medium bitterness and medium light roast notes. Faint bourbon and oak with some medium light alcohol spice. Mouthfeel is full bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and medium low alcohol warmth. Overall, the aroma on this is nicer that the flavor where sugar and caramel sweetness dominates. It gets a bit better as it warms and the palate adjusts to the massive amounts of sugar, but this is still a beer that is difficult to drink more than a couple ounces.
Tried from Bottle on 19 Jan 2018 at 01:31

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle pours out black topped with a small tan head. Nose is great almond forward some berries big bourbon barrel notes vanilla sweet malts. Taste is more of the nice almond nutty notes plenty bourbon barrel vanilla roast coffee chocolate and some blueberry sweetness.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Jan 2018 at 11:45

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottled. A black beer with a brown head. The aroma has notes of bourbon, chocolate, roasted malt, vanilla, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of sweet with notrs of roasted malt, blueberries, alcohol, and chocolate, leading to a dry alcoholic finish.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Jan 2018 at 13:47

8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 6 Overall 9
dark brown, smooth brown head. strong cheries aroma, marcipan, roasted malts, vanila, very sweet but not cloying.flavor is roasted malts, wood, booze, cherries, fantastic flavor, super well balance between the roasted malts, he bourbon and the fruity notes.
Tried on 10 Jan 2018 at 12:57

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Tap@Skaal, Copenhagen - (Thanks to Ken) black pour with small tan ringed head. Dark roasted malty with some chocolate and caramel witn some nice berry notes, some blueberry, a nice medley of spices with some distinct marzipan into the finish.
Tried from Draft on 10 Jan 2018 at 12:56

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
1 pint 5 fl oz bottle. Pours dark brown, deep amber. Brown head. Aroma is dense malty, bourbon. Dark roasted malty. Dense vanilla. Roasted malty.metallic. Roasted. Bitter. Dry and roasted. Overripe fruity. Rum like. Dense fruity and roasted dark malty finish.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Jan 2018 at 12:48

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
From a bottle. Pours black with a tan head. Aroma of almonds, bourbon and oak. Flavors include some blueberry sweetness along side the sweet caramel malt flavors. Much better than I expected.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Dec 2017 at 19:44

7.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Growler thanks to Rainer. Pours a very dark brown with small beige head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is strong marzipan, berry, wood, spice. Slick body, similar flavors to nose, nice sweetness, boozy finish, very good
Tried from Growler on 16 Dec 2017 at 22:02

8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle - pours black tan head - nose and taste of bourbon, blueberry, almond and rich chocolate - full body
Tried from Bottle on 06 Dec 2017 at 17:53

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle - Sweet marzipan. Deep brown with a small beige head. Chewy, candy, almond and sweet. No blueberry for me.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Dec 2017 at 01:41