Proprietor's Bourbon County Brand Stout (2015)
Goose Island Beer Co.

 

Fall 2015 vintage; drank 11/25/15 @ Sheffield's...before the release day, and drank on draft, so no infection concerns.

Black appearance.

Almost no tan head; almost no lace.

Mild pepper heat, honeyed nuts & cream notes in the nose.

Medium thick, sticky mouthfeel.

Toasted pecan, sweet candied sugar & faint pepper heat flavors.

A touch too sweet, which the pepper heat somewhat balanced. Very unique & tasty.

Aged bottle shared with me on thanksgiving. Yup, it is infected. Too bad because I thought the foretaste of bourbon and pecans was warm and roasted, but then goes sour and spicy quickly. Not good! Smells like toilet bowl cleaner on the finish.

 

Tasted from bottle. Pours black with basically no head. Pretty sweet aroma with just a hint of infected sour notes. Maple and bourbon notes. Surprisingly not that much sour funk. Being refrigerated likely helped. Flavors of sweet maple, brown sugar, some hints of nuts, cocoa, bourbon. Finishes with a very faint note of peppers and slight but not excessive sourness. Definitely drinkable and actually pretty good. Uninfected would likely be incredible.

 

Well this was one infected piece of shit

I'm conflicted on how to rate Prop 15. Obviously, per style, it's a tremendously infected, bad beer! But even so... it's practically a wine. When I cracked the bottle, the sour nose was evident from as far as five feet away. I couldn't believe how obvious it was - it had a very type sour grape smell.

Ordinarily I'd have stopped there... but a friend gave himself a small pour and tried it. He didn't die. Projectile vomiting did not ensue. So I waited a moment and tried it myself. Strangest thing - every other infected beer I've had has been execrably bad. But... Prop 15 tastes just like wine at this point. Per my tasting friends, the fruity, dark notes reminded them a lot of a cabernet. I'm not wino enough to chime in, but yes - it tastes just like wine... and not a bad one.

So, my rating does not reflect the intended style, but the actual experience with the beer as it is. I like it. I'd buy a bottle. I'm kind of impressed.

Sour and spoiled. Drain pour.

 

 

 

 

 

Infected, but could be drank if you really wanted the booze out of it. Smelled of cherries and metal. Tasted only of tart cherries.

16.9oz bottle poured into a snifter

A- pours a deep black color with no head or lacing

S- smells of of soured yogurt, berries, spicy pepper, rye barrel, curdled milk

T- tastes of tangy Greek yogurt, maple, pepper, lacto, finishes with dairy sour flavor

M- medium body and carbonation leads to a foamy mouthfeel and finish

O- infected beyond completion, drain pour

 

 

From the infected batch.

The taste is sour with a lingering touch of mildly off-putting apple cider and vinegar flavor, though the base components of the stout are still there. The beer is grossly over carbonated .

Overall, I would not want more than a sip of this beer, but it is not entirely awful. It might actually taste better than some of the regularly available stouts and sours that are being sold on the market today.

Mine was infected. I like sours and wilds, and would have been quite happy with this...if it were what they were trying to do. The sour was moderate, very green apple in taste

 

 

Special 2015 goose island bottle from Darrel. Black, oily pour, extremely small head. Something wrong here, smells like a cleaning product. Taste also sharp, biting, astringent, mildly fruity, but really undrinkable. definitely infected.

 

 

 

Oof.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................I'm being very generous. Damn, Go Cubs!!! My rating expresses my review, but, just in case ..............................................................................................................................................Looks nice, smells nicer, tastes bad, feels okay. Overall? See above.

If you told me this was a sour cherry stout I would have enjoyed it even though it's not my favorite style. However, this is supposed to be an adjunct heavy stout.

 

 

Classic dark cola body with some milkyness towards the end of the pour, thin dark brown head fades entirely. Nose is sweet, to say the least. There is some roasted malt and dark chocolate, dark red cherry juice, bourbon sweetness and alcohol warmth, faint vanilla, very faint chili smokiness that would have been missed if I weren't looking for it. Over the top, but not in the rich warm boozy way like normal- far too sweet and fruity. The flavor gets bad, predominantly displaying cherry juice, with mild chocolate flavor. Which sounds like a great combination, but not when it's this sweet, and in a beer, and in this beer particularly. Coming to the rescue at the end is some smoke, alcohol warmth, and mild chili heat. Body is thin, sticky, a bit astringent, with appropriately diminished carbonation.
Something went wrong here. I'm not shitting all over it for any reason besides that it stunk. Way too sweet, too many off flavors, and too few and weak of the appropriate ones. Disappointing, to say the least. Now I understand why I was offered to buy a case a year after its release, and glad I only bought 2.

 

Very maple forward. Not much bourbon. Peppers and pecans are not there. Very sweet.

 

 

 

 

 

Swirling the liquid around the glass and it's not sticking. Smelling some cherries, chocolate and oak. This tangy Cherry Bourbon variant is not half bad. Oh, you say it's not supposed to taste like this? Yeah, getting absolutely no Pecan or Guajillo pepper flavor. Classic bcbs sweetness with subtle maple earthiness. Alas, tis a disappointment. Oh well, sending in for that refund.