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

Proprietor's Bourbon County Brand Stout (2015)Proprietor's Bourbon County Brand Stout (2015)
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From:
Goose Island Beer Co.
 
Illinois, United States
Style:
American Imperial Stout
ABV:
13.4%
Score:
90
Avg:
4.02 | pDev: 20.15%
Reviews:
67
Ratings:
328
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Mar 18, 2020
Added:
Jul 30, 2015
Wants:
  120
Gots:
  122
Brewed with maple syrup aged in bourbon barrels, toasted pecans and guajillo peppers.
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Rated: 4.24 by 5EKF from Illinois

Mar 18, 2020
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Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois

4.25/5  rDev +5.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
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.
Jul 25, 2019
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Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois

2.76/5  rDev -31.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
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.
Nov 22, 2018
 
Rated: 5 by COBEERHUNTER from Colorado

Oct 22, 2018
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Reviewed by Rristow from Ohio

4.21/5  rDev +4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
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.
Jun 07, 2018
 
Rated: 3.83 by mush from Illinois

Jan 22, 2018
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Rated by Futbolmanby from Michigan

1.48/5  rDev -63.2%
look: 4 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
Well this was one infected piece of shit
Jan 21, 2018
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Reviewed by Vidblain from Minnesota

4.56/5  rDev +13.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
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.
Dec 22, 2017
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Rated by Winston3737 from Michigan

1/5  rDev -75.1%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
Sour and spoiled. Drain pour.
Dec 17, 2017
 
Rated: 1.5 by Deltoro from Florida

Jul 07, 2017
 
Rated: 3.97 by krl2112 from Illinois

May 13, 2017
 
Rated: 2.14 by PhillyBoy23 from New Jersey

Jan 20, 2017
 
Rated: 4.25 by Nichols33 from Massachusetts

Jan 16, 2017
 
Rated: 2.96 by Rjbrew from New York

Dec 30, 2016
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Rated by PBRmeasap1980 from Indiana

2.07/5  rDev -48.5%
look: 4 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.75
Infected, but could be drank if you really wanted the booze out of it. Smelled of cherries and metal. Tasted only of tart cherries.
Dec 29, 2016
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Reviewed by Treyliff from West Virginia

2.9/5  rDev -27.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 2.25
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
Dec 18, 2016
 
Rated: 5 by bcbs4040 from Illinois

Dec 12, 2016
 
Rated: 2.29 by duceswild from Heard & McDonald Islands

Dec 02, 2016
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Reviewed by rodmanfor3 from Vermont

3/5  rDev -25.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
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.
Dec 02, 2016
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Reviewed by krome from Illinois

4/5  rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
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
Nov 25, 2016
Proprietor's Bourbon County Brand Stout (2015) from Goose Island Beer Co.
Beer rating: 90 out of 100 with 328 ratings