first brewery or breweries to really bourbon barrel age...

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  1. palma

    palma Savant (1,144) Dec 14, 2003 New York

    What was the first brewery to really start bourbon barrel aging imperial stouts on a large scale? And where the hell are they now given the explosion in this style the last 5-10 years? Is there a particular brewery that comes to mind that can be called the pioneer of bourbon barrel aging??
     
    #1 palma, Mar 27, 2015
  2. JScoot

    JScoot Initiate (0) Aug 27, 2014 Louisiana

    Goose Island
     
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  3. SammyJaxxxx

    SammyJaxxxx Initiate (0) Feb 23, 2012 New Jersey

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  4. jmdrpi

    jmdrpi Grand High Pooh-Bah (8,989) Dec 11, 2008 Pennsylvania
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    from this article, although it's a non-committal statement.

    "In 1992, Greg Hall from Goose Island Beer Co. in Chicago might very well have become the first American brewer to produce a bourbon-barrel-aged beer when he filled six oak barrels that previously contained Jim Beam. He poured this experiment at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver that fall, inducing rumors, appreciative nods and whispers of something entirely new."
     
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  5. seangibbs60

    seangibbs60 Initiate (0) Oct 25, 2013 Minnesota
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    I've always heard it was goose island. I'm pretty sure Town Hall's Czar Jack was the first bourbon barrel aged beer to win gold at the GABF (2003), but I could be mistaken
     
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  6. drtth

    drtth Initiate (0) Nov 25, 2007 Pennsylvania
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  7. Jeffreysan

    Jeffreysan Initiate (0) Apr 12, 2013 Virginia

    Well all I can add to this thread is a huge THANK YOU to Greg Hall and Goose Island!! Thank you indeed! Not only for BCS, but for introducing this style to the world! (Assuming, of course it is in fact them, and if not, then a huge THANK YOU to whoever it was that did!)
     
    #7 Jeffreysan, Mar 27, 2015
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