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Bardstown Bourbon Collaborative Series Goose Island Stout Bourbon Cask Strength
Iconic trailblazers of craft brewing, Goose Island is a perfect partner for innovation. This bespoke blend of 6 and 7 year Kentucky Bourbon has been aged an addition 12 months in Bourbon County Stout Brand barrels. Then married with a beautiful 9 year Kentucky Bourbon, creating an expression bursting with chocolate malt and dried cherry.
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Bourbon County Reserve Blanton’s Stout 2021
Aged for 18 months in barrels from one of the most sought-after bourbons — Blanton’s Original Single Barrel Bourbon. This has dark chocolate and oak notes, finished with warm aromatics of baking spices such as clove, nutmeg and cinnamon. 15.4% ABV
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Goose Island Anniversary Bourbon County Stout 2020
Anniversary Bourbon County Stout is aged 2 years in Weller 12 Year barrels and is a special variant this year to celebrate Goose Island’s 10-year tradition of releasing Bourbon County Stout on Black Friday. The Weller brand is one of the most universally loved collections in all of bourbon, with Weller 12 Year being one of the hardest to get and most sought after. Our Original Bourbon County Stout is aged in 4-5 year old barrels for one year, so the added age of these Weller barrels, paired with an extra year of the beer in the barrel, adds stronger barrel flavors and notes of dried dark fruit.
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Goose Island Barrel House Blackberry Smash
Fruit-forward, fizzy, and easy to love. Our take on a “smash” cocktail pairs blackberries with a slightly spicy, rye bourbon backbone and just enough mint to refresh – and unwind – on a long summer afternoon. Enjoy chilled or pour over ice.
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Goose Island Barrel House Old Fashioned Highball
A light, bubbly and refreshing character. Our take on a highball cocktail ventures into bold old fashioned territory. With rye bourbon complexity, a touch of bitters, cane sugar, and a wisp of orange and cherry, it’s a crisp yet modern toast to a century-old era. Enjoy chilled or pour over ice in a rocks glass.
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Goose Island Barrel House Whiskey Sour
Subtly sweet, tart, and spicy, yet hardly shy. Our riff on a whiskey sour pays tribute to that classic balance with rye bourbon, both lemon and lime, and a subtle maraschino cherry finish. Welcome to the world of whiskey cocktails. Enjoy chilled or pour over ice.
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Goose Island Birthday Bourbon County Stout 2020
We partnered with the Old Forester Brand and paired Bourbon County Stout with barrels from one of the world’s most sought-after bourbons – Old Forester Birthday Bourbon. The limited-edition bourbon, released each year on the founder George Garvin Brown of Brown-Forman’s birthday, is made in hand-selected 11-year old barrels and chosen from one specific day of production – resulting in flavor profiles that vary every year and never replicated. Old Forester’s tasting notes for the 2019 Birthday Bourbon are: “Rich oak spice and blackcurrant coupled with light maple, caramel cake, and white floral notes.” This year’s Birthday Bourbon County Stout is a truly unique variation that is a must-have for bourbon and beer lovers alike.
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Goose Island Bourbon County 2 Year Barleywine Reserve 2022 Release
For this Reserve, we worked with our friends at Old Fitzgerald to obtain three exceptional sets of barrels of varying ages from the distillery’s Old Fitzgerald’s Bottled-In-Bond Decanter Series. This Reserve offers us a rare opportunity to highlight the distinct characteristics of our rich Barleywine aged in 14-year, 16-year, and 17-year-old barrels of an amazing bourbon pedigree. Bringing back our classic English-style Barleywine for the first time since 2018, we knew this was going to be something special. Our Two-Year Barleywine Reserve evokes the rich intricacies from that of Old Fitzgerald’s Bottled-In-Bond Series for a velvety taste of rich malt, entwined with notes of toffee, cherry, vanilla, fig, and almond.
Style: Barleywine aged in Bourbon Barrels for 2 years
ABV: 17%
Bottles: 16.9oz
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Goose Island Bourbon County 30th Anniversary Reserve Stout 2022 Release
We created a special 30th Anniversary Stout to pay homage to the serendipitous union between Gregory Hall and Booker Noe that then led to subsequent years, variants, and traditions – from Black Friday lines to bottle shares and more. Going back to the inception of Bourbon County Stout, the 30th Anniversary Stout is aged from a blend of Jim Beam barrels from their Small Batch Bourbon Collection barrels. Each of the remarkable bourbon barrels offer characteristics unique to each bourbon’s distinct nuances. They are then blended together for a complex and balanced expression that celebrates the heritage and legacy of both brands. And, as history would have it, Jim Beam launched their first-ever Small Batch Bourbon Collection 30 years ago. This 30th Anniversary Reserve Stout is a culmination signifying the historical, groundbreaking shifts in both the bourbon and beer industries from two visionaries all those years ago. Both the concept of small batch bourbons and bourbon barrel-aged beers have changed our respective drinking communities forever, and the 30th Anniversary Stout is a celebration of all the people that have enjoyed, worked on, and been a part of the Bourbon County Stout brand over the years. Expect notes of dark chocolate, vanilla, cherry, and almond. We’re excited to raise a glass to this extraordinary 30-year-old history and craftsmanship.
Style: Imperial Stout aged in Bourbon Barrels
ABV: 14.4%
Bottles: 16.9oz
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Goose Island Bourbon County Biscotti Stout 2022 Release
At Goose Island, we believe ideas and inspiration can come from anyone in the Goose family, and our Biscotti Stout is a perfect example that came from our very own HR team. Inspired by the Italian desserts of her childhood, Jill Cerone, People Manager at Goose Island, dreamed up this variant after grabbing a box of chocolate-dipped biscotti from her cabinet. Working with the brewing team, Jill brought the flavor to life with notes of anise, marzipan, cocoa, and buttered toffee. The biscotti enhances flavors already found in our Bourbon County Stout and adds strong notes of nostalgia from your Italian grandma’s kitchen. One sip and you’ll be reminded of pizzelle cookies, Easter Pane di Pasqua and, of course, almond biscotti.
Style: Imperial Stout aged in Bourbon Barrels
ABV: 14.3%
Bottle: 16.9oz
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Goose Island Bourbon County Caramella Ale 2020
Caramella or ‘candy’ in Italian is a wheatwine aged in Larceny Wheated Bourbon barrels with apple, cinnamon, and natural caramel flavor added after aging. Just like last year, the sweet smoothness from the Larceny Wheated Bourbon barrels adds a lingering warmth that complements the added flavor nuance. It’s nostalgia-inducing flavors are reminiscent of a caramel apple. Our Lab Tech, Joey Tidei, created this variant as a tribute to his love of seasonal flavors. This luscious embodiment of caramel perfectly paired with a slightly-tart apple flavor will transport you to a crisp autumn day.
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Goose Island Bourbon County Cherry Wood Stout 2021
This is fully matured Bourbon County Stout finished with toasted fruitwood — specifically, honeycomb-shaped cherry wood chips. The versatility of the cherry wood and honeycomb shape allowed for maximum flavor extraction, the company says, revealing characteristics like red fruit, ripe cherry and light toffee, which are not found in the original oak barrel itself. 14.3% ABV
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Goose Island Bourbon County Coffee Stout 2022 Release
In 2010, we released the first-ever Bourbon County Stout variants and our Goose Island Bourbon County Coffee Stout has been a fan favorite ever since. For the first time since 2017, we brought back a coffee variant this year in partnership with our friends and neighbors Intelligentsia Coffee. Intelligentsia relies on Burundi for some of the cleanest, sweetest coffees in the world that ultimately complement the quality and tasting notes of Bourbon County Stout. The specific coffee blend combined with our Imperial Stout is called Turihamwe, which means “together”, and is a perfect tribute to all the hands that go into making it – from the female coffee farmers in Burundi that produced the blend, to our friends at Intelligentsia, the first brand we worked with on a variant back in 2010. The result of this “togetherness” is another exceptional coffee variant featuring rich chocolate, coffee, and caramel flavors that will appeal to coffee drinkers and beer lovers alike.
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Goose Island Bourbon County Double Barrel Toasted Barrel Stout 2021
Aged for one year in Elijah Craig’s Small Batch Bourbon Barrels, then another year in Elijah Craig Toasted Bourbon Barrels. In addition to the familiar chocolate, caramel and vanilla comes flavors of toasted marshmallow and a fruit and oak finish. This is only the second time the brewery has packaged a “Double Barrel” Bourbon County Stout. 16% ABV
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Goose Island Bourbon County Fourteen Stout 2021
This pays homage to the popular Proprietor’s 2014 recipe, but adds rye to the mash bill. Layering cassia bark, cocoa nibs, panela sugar and coconut water, this stout has a sweet and spicy flavor profile.
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Goose Island Bourbon County Kentucky Fog Stout 2020
We’re excited to debut our first-ever tea-inspired variant. Brewer Paul Cade brought this idea to life, inspired by his girlfriend, Martha, who prefers tea over coffee. Our Bourbon County Kentucky Fog Stout is a take on the London Fog tea drink. With that flavor profile in mind, we added Earl Grey Tea and Black Tea from Kilogram Tea, as well as clover honey from The Honey House, to make a Bourbon County Stout variant with a complexity like none before. Trust us, you’ll just have to try it.