OK, for the last time: It’s almost certainly not the 30th anniversary of Goose Island’s Bourbon County Stout. (@gooseisland) As we first reported in 2016, the groundbreaking beer aged in bourbon barrels was likely first released in 1995 — not 1992, as the brewery continues to insist. But Goose Island should have more questionable anniversaries, because its Bourbon County 30th Anniversary Reserve Stout, to be released the day after Thanksgiving among its family of seven barrel-aged Bourbon County beers, is elegance defined. “'Smooth' is a word people often use to describe beer when it’s easy to drink,” says the Tribune’s Josh Noel (@hopnotes). “It’s far from an ideal descriptor, though; sanded wood is smooth. Beer is not. But my instinctive thought upon first sipping 30th Anniversary Reserve Stout? Smooth! “What that really means is that despite its 14.4% alcohol, it is an exceptionally approachable beer. It is not flashy. It is not trying to bowl over the drinker with muscularity. It is simply a lovely, nuanced and, yes, smooth stout rife with creamy notes of dark chocolate, oak, vanilla and caramel.” Click the link in our bio for Noel’s thoughts on the rest of the lineup. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
November 19, 2022
OK, for the last time: It’s almost certainly not the 30th anniversary of Goose Island’s Bourbon County Stout. (@gooseisland)
As we first reported in 2016, the groundbreaking beer aged in bourbon barrels was likely first released in 1995 — not 1992, as the brewery continues to insist.
But Goose Island should have more questionable anniversaries, because its Bourbon County 30th Anniversary Reserve Stout, to be released the day after Thanksgiving among its family of seven barrel-aged Bourbon County beers, is elegance defined.
“'Smooth' is a word people often use to describe beer when it’s easy to drink,” says the Tribune’s Josh Noel (@hopnotes). “It’s far from an ideal descriptor, though; sanded wood is smooth. Beer is not. But my instinctive thought upon first sipping 30th Anniversary Reserve Stout? Smooth!
“What that really means is that despite its 14.4% alcohol, it is an exceptionally approachable beer. It is not flashy. It is not trying to bowl over the drinker with muscularity. It is simply a lovely, nuanced and, yes, smooth stout rife with creamy notes of dark chocolate, oak, vanilla and caramel.”
Click the link in our bio for Noel’s thoughts on the rest of the lineup. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
As we first reported in 2016, the groundbreaking beer aged in bourbon barrels was likely first released in 1995 — not 1992, as the brewery continues to insist.
But Goose Island should have more questionable anniversaries, because its Bourbon County 30th Anniversary Reserve Stout, to be released the day after Thanksgiving among its family of seven barrel-aged Bourbon County beers, is elegance defined.
“'Smooth' is a word people often use to describe beer when it’s easy to drink,” says the Tribune’s Josh Noel (@hopnotes). “It’s far from an ideal descriptor, though; sanded wood is smooth. Beer is not. But my instinctive thought upon first sipping 30th Anniversary Reserve Stout? Smooth!
“What that really means is that despite its 14.4% alcohol, it is an exceptionally approachable beer. It is not flashy. It is not trying to bowl over the drinker with muscularity. It is simply a lovely, nuanced and, yes, smooth stout rife with creamy notes of dark chocolate, oak, vanilla and caramel.”
Click the link in our bio for Noel’s thoughts on the rest of the lineup. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
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