Goose Island Bourbon County Stout - Coffee

Brewed by Goose Island Beer Company (AB-InBev)
Style: Imperial Stout
Chicago, Illinois USA

Serve in Snifter

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This is a really strong beer from a great local brewery. You really need to like bourbon to enjoy this beer. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle 2012 #2253 thanks Artmcd8. Poured black minimal light brown head. Slightly spicy aroma. Tingly coffee choco taste. ---Rated via Beer Buddy

Bottled. A pitch black beer with a brown head. The aroma has strong notes of chocolate, as well as medium notes of alcohol, and roasted malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of alcohol, roasted malt, and chocolate. The chocolate gains in strength towards the finish, where also a Bourbon note mixes in. The alcohol leaves a burn on the tongue.

2010 Vintage No head, dark brown beer with ruby reflections. Cold coffee, even stale coffee - nose is a tad disappointing. Coffee, with a good shot of Bourbon, and black chocolate. Indeed Bourbon County Coffee - with a cappucino streak? Very thick-bodied, alcoholheat, warming as none. Better than the sum of its parts - but it just can’t stand up to the Rare...

On tap at GI Clybourn. Hmmm. Had two of these bad boys, about three hours apart (and nothing in between). Beer number one was killer - and what I based my rating on. Bottom line - this was the most COFFEE PREVALENT stout I have ever had. This isn’t "just a little coffee". This is full on, your drinking your coffee cold and it is getting you happier. A great offering that I enjoyed. Beer #2 seemed a little over the top - so my recommendation is that this is far from a session ale.

Lots of folk at the festival raved about this brew, but to me the heavy aroma and flavor of espresso overpowered the wonderful Imperial Stout at the base. Espresso, roasted barley, dark chocolate, and anise blended together in both, but the coffee wins out. Dry nutty finish. I’d stick with the regular BCS.

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Had this a couple times over the last few months. One shared by stfun a few weeks ago in winston salem and one shared by someone in the carolina crew at todd’s house. This beer, like KBS, comes as billed. Heavy on the coffee and bourbon. These are two culinary items that when on their own, i really love, but when they are melded together to enhance another item such as an imperial stout, the love isn’t there. Its good and I can appreciate it. But I dont really want to drink too much of it.

shared with Rudolf, dark dark pour with deep dark khaki head. . Huge aroma BIGBIG roasted malts, bourbon presence. Flavor is big, loaded, BOOZY, agressively boozed. STRONG!!!Big roasted malt presence, A sipper no doubt. We had trouble kiling the 750 between two of us. Agressive booze burn upfront. Loaded of sweet malts & bourbon also. Just TOO big. 5oz of this would more than suffice. Tons of flavor but tough to handle.

Bomber shared by Boutip (merci!), served at cellar temperature in a tulip glass. Part of a vertical. 02DE11. Bottled 03/26/10.

App.: Deep brown-black, deep mocha head. Aroma: Extremely strong, spicy, aggressive cooked green pepper, peppercorns, still plenty of big coffee, ashen. Palate: Medium-full body, modest effervescence. Flav.: Tons of coffee, still lots of peppery, spicy, green notes, molasses, rich briny soy sauce, pine, dark chocolate, alcohol, not as friendly as the vanilla version; sweet with good bitterness and a long, green, spicy finish with lots of molasses, etc.

#19 at papsoe’s blind tasting. (proud that i recognized the brewery and a similar beer i’ve once tasted) pitch dark, smooth light brown head dry hops, coffee dominates, roasted stuff and the rest of the usual suspects of an imperial stout follows. wood, dusty boozy note. great aroma flavor is boozy,licorice, wood, caramel, roasted stuff, bourbon, reminds me of goose island bourbon county stout