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Goose Island Bourbon County Stout

Goose Island Bourbon County Stout - Imperial Stout

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 Percentile 
100
overall
Brewed by Goose Island Beer Company
Style: Imperial Stout

Chicago, Illinois USA

bottled
common

on tap
common

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
11404.2/5.04.19/5.013%97Snifter
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Commercial Description:
"I really wanted to do something special for our 1000th batch at the original brewpub. Goose Island could have thrown a party. But we did something better. We brewed a beer. A really big batch of stout-so big the malt was coming out of the top of the mash tun. After fermentation we brought in some bourbon barrels to age the stout. One hundred and fifty days later, Bourbon County Stout was born-A liquid as dark and dense as a black hole with a thick foam the color of bourbon barrels. The nose is a mix of charred oak, vanilla,carmel and smoke. One sip has more flavor than your average case of beer. It overpowers anything in the room. People have even said that it’s a great cigar beer, but I haven’t yet tried a cigar that would stand up to it." Brewmaster Greg Hall; IBU’s 60-High Color - Midnight Was 11%, the 2007 and 2008 are listed at 13%.
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 Pwn3d (1036), Manhattan, New York, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/105/518/20
May 20, 2009  
Bottle courtesy of JRedmond. Awesome stout, seriously. I enjoyed this so much. Pours thick black, little to no head. Rich in everyway. Deep brutal punishment of molasses, malt, sharpie, alcohol, smoke. All the while its remarkably drinkable. .


 mgermani (862), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/103/58/104/516/20
May 19, 2009  
Pours a thick, thick oily black - looks (and feels) like tar or molasses, with a thin dark brown head. Aroma is simply devestating... it ruins me for any other stout because I can’t imagine anything else I’d want to smell when opening a bottle: vanilla, maple, light peatiness. Tastes fantastic - LOTS of molasses, plenty of hops, and deep, dark, tannic astringent malting that overpowers quickly and destroys the palate, sadly. Warm boozy finish, lingering hop & roast bitterness. Body light in carb but I have never, ever tasted a thicker beer. This stuff must have a final gravity greater than the original gravity of some of its less potent rivals. Wow. This is actually too much beer for me, as tasty as it is I simply cannot enjoy it as much as I could if I could actually drink enough of a mouthful at once to savour it before being knocked out by the alcohol and overwhelming taste. Otherwise, so tasty!


 ChrisThomson (378), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/516/20
May 18, 2009  
Pours black, almost no head. Molasses, valnilla, cherry, and dark chocolate.Is sweet and thick. Bourbon character is a bit too dominant for me.


pizzaz318 (1), Phoenix, USA
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4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/104/519/20
May 17, 2009  
This one is a wow. It’s almost like drinking a peaty, single-malt scotch. Great with cigars.


 WakeandBake (422), Greenville, Michigan, USA
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/105/519/20
May 17, 2009    Updated: May 19, 2009
BCS Rating #1000 Bottle 2008. A ultra dark thick black color body with a very thin chocolate colored head,little to no carbonation,lots of sticky sheeting and lace. Aroma of Vanilla, chocolate covered cherries, oak, tobacco,and brown sugar.Flavor is HUGE dark toasted malt ,chocolate, coffee, licorice, raisin, smoke, vanilla, and molasis, a full body with a thick creamy mouthfeel,slightly boozy ,burbony but in a very good way,long milk chocolate,and alcohol finish. This is the bomb !


 Jonte (801), Gothenburg, Sweden
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/510/104/518/20
May 17, 2009  
Bottle. Black colour with a small brown head. Aroma: Bourbon up front, then malty sweetness, roastiness, oak, vanilla, chocolate, cherries, a bit sourish. Taste: Very creamy, bourbon, roastiness, licorice, chocolate, caramel, cherries, coffee, oak, alcohol, a bit vineous. Full bodied. Complex and very tasty.


 BgThang (118), Texas, USA
4.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/510/105/520/20
May 14, 2009  
By far the thickest beer I have ever drank. Molasses, syrup, chocolate booze. Man what a great combo!


acblue (50), Seattle, Washington, USA
4.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/104/510/104/520/20
May 12, 2009  
Thick and dark brown with a very small head that dissipates quickly. Aroma is bourbon, chocolate and coffee. Heavy, almost astringent mouthfeel. Flavor starts with bourbon and opens up to reveal chocolate, coffee, tobacco and molasses. Finish is brown sugar. Doesn’t mask it’s alcohol content but it works quite well the flavor profile.



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