Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout 2017 "Infection"

Here we go again.

 

I thought the barleywine version was preemptively pulled due to a possible infection. Haven't heard anything about the regular BCBS or the rest of the series.

Was he talking about the entire series or just the regular batch?

 

The local distributor is telling accounts that WI is not getting any BCBCS bottles this year due to a large amount being dumped

 

Maybe they tell distributors this to make them feel better about not having enough for their accounts.

 

The great Bourbon County panic of 2017.
2014 - Very few accounts are getting Vanilla Rye (it was all over)
2015 - Very few accounts are getting Rare (it was all over)
2016 - No one is getting Coffee because they dumped a bunch, it is all going to be pasteurized and not be good anymore, last year it was infected...
2017 - No one is getting Coffee because they dumped a bunch.

 

I heard the 2018 is infected too.

In addition, I heard the tweaked recipe for the 2019 batch was written on paper that was exposed to somebody who drank the infected 2015s, so it's going to be dumped as well.

My sister in law heard from a rep's boyfriend that due to all the infection issues & rumors, GI is going to change the name of the beer from BCS to "Perfect Vision" in 2020 & hope for the best. Though I'm hearing that someone with a grudge against Anheuser-Busch has already been not washing his hands & repeatedly fingering every barrel in the warehouse he can find with "Perfect Vision" stamped on it.

Don't even get me started about the 2021. That disaster might bring the beer world to its knees.

 

Not that I believe any of these rumors, but one would think that GI took serious steps to prevent another debacle like 2015.

 

Read the OP in this thread
https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/goose-island-bourbon-county-2017.541829/

 

I heard they are releasing 2018 Bourbon County Brand Troll Food Stout whether it's infected or not

 

I am happy to take all supposed infected bottles free of charge, just post me if you think you have a bad one and I will take the risk of drinking them.
LOL

 

Hans Gruber was an exceptional thief... but I digress.

 

Not the regular BW.

 

I thought they were pasturising their beers?

 

They are flash pasteurizing Bourbon County and did last year as well.

 

They pasteurize as they bottle and that prevents infection. It does not fix already infected beer. They test before pasteurization, and dump if infected.

 

You mean like rolling some heads after having to dump a bunch of 2016?

 

Honestly, is this stuff really worth fooling with any more?