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Brewery: Goose Island Beer Co.
Name: 2017 Bourbon County Brand
Style: American Imperial Stout
Origin: Illinois
Bottle: 1Pt. .9Oz.
ABV: 14.1%
Appearance: A lugubriously evil, thick, and dark looking concoction as befitting an imperial stout. It borders on Imperial Porter territory.
Pours: Easily enough, a thin fragment of a deep, coffee colored head coiling and reforming like Ophion in the throws of the hatching of existence.
Smell: bourbon, vanilla, molasses, mince pies, and memories older than I am.
Taste: The bitterness of baker’s chocolate with a caramel sweetness. A Brönte novel in a bottle. The Emo is Awesome Emo is Evil I’m listening to has the right balance of hard and gentle to go along with this one with such groups as ‘Planes Mistaken for Stars’, ‘Last Days of April’, and ‘Seven Storey’ among others.
Mouthfeel: It manages to be harsh and smooth at the same time, crisp but mellow, gentle yet deadly, soothing yet vindictive, congenial but domin-alright I think you get the point. It’s as if the mellower aspects encase it’s sharper aspects in a thick shell but also run through it while the more strident aspects leak out of the shell.
Rating: 9.0; At 14.1% I am treating this one with respect and only taking small sips. The contrasting flavors don’t seem to want to be together, but like a late Beatles recording session with John and Paul in separate recording studios that when layered over each other they end up producing something amazing (even if they can’t stand to be in the same room together.).
If this had a voice it would be Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug, working as a late night, old school Soul-R&B DJ with Velvet as his first name and who occasionally let slip hints of his troubled love life.
It’s a smiling, congenial demon standing before a charred and smoldering bit of hell with all manners of restraints and devices within to extract confessions, holding out a pen and a lease for you to sign, but don’t worry, take some care with this one, treat it with proper consideration, and the lease will be up before you know it.
Although, you may be strongly tempted to renew.
Name: 2017 Bourbon County Brand
Style: American Imperial Stout
Origin: Illinois
Bottle: 1Pt. .9Oz.
ABV: 14.1%
Appearance: A lugubriously evil, thick, and dark looking concoction as befitting an imperial stout. It borders on Imperial Porter territory.
Pours: Easily enough, a thin fragment of a deep, coffee colored head coiling and reforming like Ophion in the throws of the hatching of existence.
Smell: bourbon, vanilla, molasses, mince pies, and memories older than I am.
Taste: The bitterness of baker’s chocolate with a caramel sweetness. A Brönte novel in a bottle. The Emo is Awesome Emo is Evil I’m listening to has the right balance of hard and gentle to go along with this one with such groups as ‘Planes Mistaken for Stars’, ‘Last Days of April’, and ‘Seven Storey’ among others.
Mouthfeel: It manages to be harsh and smooth at the same time, crisp but mellow, gentle yet deadly, soothing yet vindictive, congenial but domin-alright I think you get the point. It’s as if the mellower aspects encase it’s sharper aspects in a thick shell but also run through it while the more strident aspects leak out of the shell.
Rating: 9.0; At 14.1% I am treating this one with respect and only taking small sips. The contrasting flavors don’t seem to want to be together, but like a late Beatles recording session with John and Paul in separate recording studios that when layered over each other they end up producing something amazing (even if they can’t stand to be in the same room together.).
If this had a voice it would be Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug, working as a late night, old school Soul-R&B DJ with Velvet as his first name and who occasionally let slip hints of his troubled love life.
It’s a smiling, congenial demon standing before a charred and smoldering bit of hell with all manners of restraints and devices within to extract confessions, holding out a pen and a lease for you to sign, but don’t worry, take some care with this one, treat it with proper consideration, and the lease will be up before you know it.
Although, you may be strongly tempted to renew.
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Beef and barley in a bourbon county reduction sautéed in a skillet with some onions.
Carrots, celery, snow pea pods.
Beef bone and/or English Breakfast tea as a broth...
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