Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Pere Jacques from Goose Island Beer Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Thanks to Darkover for the trade. I didn’t know Goose Island had it in ’em! Dark brown color with ruby tones. Thick and fluffy beige head and nice lacing. The aroma is full with malt, dark fruits and spices. Rich body with a smooth array of flavors, from sweet malt, plum, and banana to spices and hops. The finish is flavorful with yeast, and a bit of spicy alcohol. This is probably the best Goose Island beer out there.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
The aroma is sweet alcoholic with notes of wood, prunes, and raisins. The color is pitch black and it has a disappearing brown head. The flavor is alcoholic with notes of roasted malt, wood, chocolate, vanilla, and a little soya. A somewhat weird flavor, but quite interesting.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Pere Jacques from Goose Island Beer Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Hazy brown/amber coloured body with a nice sized tan head. Aroma of pit fruit, caramel, toffee and malt-very nice and strong. Medium-bodied; Alcoholic kick up front-fig & pit fruit tastes with some spices noticeable. Aftertaste a bit better-not bad-just not great. Overall, a nice beer-definitely a good one to try if you can get your hands on it. Thanks to Mike (BBB63) for the trade on this one! I sampled this 12 ounce bottle on 29-May-2004 at the Eastern Shore in Virginia.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Imperial IPA from Goose Island Beer Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
An unclear orange beer with an orange disappearing head. The aroma is flowery and hoppy with notes of oil, peach, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet and very hoppy and with a good bitter, hoppy, and dry end. A lovely IPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Pours a cloudy brown with a huge creamy tan head. Nice story on the bottle as well. Aroma is very malty. Flavor is very bready and fruity. Makes me think of banana bread. There is some alcohol in the finish but not its mostly hidden quite well. Fair to good but its missing some spice to it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
22 oz. "Bottled 10/16/09, rated Christmas Eve, 2009."Keeps for five years?" Maybe so, but I want to try it now. Pours brown and hazy, with a puff of light tan foam. Smell has nice complexity from a mix of malts, mostly reminiscent of their Nut Brown Ale. Some bittering hops also come up in the nose. Taste does have, yes, some temperate, brown roast malts. Just a mere suggestion of smoke or peat, so maybe some Scotch ale malt in the mix. Hops seem to tend toward the English side, with earthy and grassy bitterness, and a little bit of pepper. Other people who’ve tried it say there’s some citrusy American hops present, but I’m not sure about that. Despite being "normal strength" beer, it’s quite warming and enjoyable. I would suggest enjoying this now, and putting just one or two away for next Christmas. 12 oz. bottle, 2004 edition, rated 9/1/04.Rating 7-5-7-4-16, total 3.9. A nice nose of currants and raisins when poured. The usual thin head, but that’s not important. Deep, dark red, with a scotch-like malt profile, some smokiness of cigar tobacco and old chair leather. Slight touch of holiday spiciness, but not overdone like other holiday beers, in fact it may come entirely from the yeast and hops. A very fine beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottled. I tried this two nights after rating Goose’s "Generic retail" Stockyard Oatmeal Stout. This is a little bit tastier, but still has a pretty bitter coffee roast to it. Pours a slightly lighter tan head, but it’s more foamy and persistent. Still missing the creamy oatmeal balance, and its a little less sweet than the Stockyard. Still, very drinkable, I found myself swigging down the last half of it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
This is the first bottled "premium" beer from Goose Island I’ve seen in my area. Pere Jacques poured ruddy orange-brown. Medium light tan head persisted until the beer was gone and clumped in a manner suggestive of the presence of wheat malts. Rich aroma of banana, apple peel (slight), earthy fruits and a twinge of wet socks. Flavor began with sweet, lightly caramely candi (brown?) sugar, toast, and bready yeast flavors. As the beer warmed a sweet, fruity (cherry) aspect developed as did peeks of banana. Ethanol permeated the toasty finish. Not the most complex Belgian Strong Ale but classy, rich, and interesting nonetheless.
Sigmund (14587) reviewed IPA from Goose Island Beer Company 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
(355 ml bottle). This was my first American IPA, now available in Norway! Deep golden colour, good head. Lovely hoppy citrussy aroma. I got more pleasure sniffing this beer than I got from drinking it. Flavour is all hops (where are the malts?), dominant initial grapefruity bitterness like I expected (not unpleasant), quite drinkable, but the one-dimensional, medicinal and wormwoodlike bitterness that remains in the aftertaste is not to my liking.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Well, it looks like this one escaped my critical pen...until now. Pours deep clear red, with a thin off-white head. Woody, tangy aroma. Flavor is nutty, woody, and cracker/grassy. Brown sugar becomes more apparent as the beer warms and the beer also develops a toasty nature. Somewhat like their Christmas Ale. Relatively dry and nicely balanced. Medium-bodied. Serviceable.