Bourbon County Brand Vanilla Rye Stout (2024)
(Batch of Bourbon County Brand Stout - Vanilla Rye)
Goose Island Beer Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Series|
Score
7.87
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It’s been six years since we released one of the most celebrated Bourbon County Brand Stout variants. Today, we're excited to warmly welcome the return of this iconic member of the Bourbon County Brand Stout family.
Vanilla, as an ingredient, has made an appearance in Bourbon County lineups over the years, but the 2024 Bourbon County Brand Vanilla Rye Stout is a new take on our 2014 Vanilla Rye release. This year’s release showcases rye and the complexity it delivers by starting with a rye imperial stout and aging it in freshly emptied rye whiskey barrels. After aging in barrels for a full year, the stout is then finished with incredibly aromatic madagascar vanilla beans. Bourbon County Vanilla Rye Stout has the beloved attributes of the vanilla variants before it–with a new characteristically rich spice character from aging in the rye whiskey barrels.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Poured from 1 pint .9 fl oz bottle (bb 04 Aug 2029) with papa. Black with small tan head. Lots of creamy balanced vanilla with soft rye barrel underlay. Solid.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Stuu's Chicago adventure. Pours black with a thin tan head. Aromas of chocolate, wood spice and vanilla. Taste is more of the same. Quite rich and thick. Boozy finish.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle thanks to Stuu's Chicago mule run.
Appearance - opaque jet black and a thin crema head.
Nose - molasses, dark chocolate, leather, wood and raisins.
Taste - prunes, syrup and raisins. Some vanilla.
Palate - dark chocolate, syrup and prunes.
Overall - full bodied, boozy though a wee bit thin.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
bottle at ashs ....dark black ..thin tan ..soft sweet woody chocolate roast malts nose ...dark sweet chocolate roast ...sweet vanilla ..rich chocolate roast ...dark soft chocolate malts ..massive sweet vanilla ...
Sweet and boozy, quite thin body. Bourbon, vanilla, chocolate, very nice.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Pours inky black, small beige head, decent lacing. Aroma is heavy vanilla, bourbon, fudge, oak. Flavor is medium sweet, medium bitter, a bit cloying. Full body, lingering bitterness.
gave a cheers!
Sweetish, loads of vanilla notes, hints of stingy rye barrel, chocolate ice creamy notes and licorice roastiness. A bit unbalanced, vanilla is slightly artificial. Good but not as great as I expected, 2014 was a lot better
Scherp, droog, hoop vanille, scherpe whisky, ok
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours black into a snifter. Mocha head with medium retention recedes to hug rim. Sweet, hot vanilla and pumpernickel aromas. Thick with sweet pit fruit, vanilla and pumpernickel front to back. Lasting, hot vanilla extract finish.