Thoughts on Goose Island's 2022 Bourbon County (BCBS) Lineup?

Is it made with real ingredients or natural flavors?

 

Read bbtkd’s description again of Biscotti

 

I did the first time and that’s why I’m asking.

 

gotcha, hopefully neither, lol

 

If it’s anything like the Bottle Logic biscotti stout that came out a year or two ago, it’s a hard pass. Those flavors are so hard to impart on a beer without a big addition of “natural/artificial flavors”. The Bottle Logic one tasted like a solid barrel aged stout, nothing more. That isn’t really a bad thing because it tasted good, but not worthy of the price markup of something “special”

 

I know that we are beer nerds and we are the exception not the rule, but I'm shocked the number of people that clearly work as beer specialists that I spoke with today that clearly indicated by how and what they said that they knew nothing more than "this is what the paper says". Most everyone had no idea what the 4-packs even were. I'm just surprised as hell about that.

 

Both...

"Stout aged in bourbon barrels with cocoa nibs, toasted almonds, anise seed and natural flavor"

Natural flavor, I assume is "almond" extract which is going to overpower the rest. Easy pass for me! At least it doesn't sound nearly as bad as this year's Proprietor's

 

You missed a joke.

@bbtkd Listed the ingredients as including anus. Surely his phone autocorrected from anise, but the fact that he types anus that much raises even more questions. I feel like we're about to head back down the analingus rabbithole that BA goes through every few months.

 

TWENTY FIVE for coffee?

Just so we’re on the same page here this is the same beer that 7-8 years ago you could get 12oz bottles of for $6.

So the size of the bottle increases 25% and the price increases 400%?

Eat my whole fucking ass Goose Island. What a goddamn trash company.

 

Wait for it...

Clearly I am clairvoyant.

 

That coffee they add is worth more than the already relatively pricey base beer. My question is where can I get this apparently amaze-balls coffee?

 

I heard the high abv of the 4 pack is 14.2 and low abv is 13.8. Maybe 14 abv is the cut off in some states? Also still not 100% sure if 4 packs are from same distiller or 1 bottle of each 4 (4 roses, HH, WT, and BT), maybe Chicagoland and limited national distribution will be the same or varied.

 

Travel to the landlocked historic kingdom of Burundi in the deep interior of the African continent and search out an all female coffee plantation where the beans are grown in the deforested soil and the blood of colonial sins… Or try one of the many Intelligentsia coffee shops.

 

$25 has been the standard “low end variant” price for a few years now. I think the only exception was Cola last year ($18.99?), and I have a feeling it was because there was so much backlash about it as soon as it was announced.

It sucks because you get a total disaster like Kentucky Fog that costs $25 and now a hopefully really good variant in Coffee for the same price

 

It was Cherry Wood that was cheaper. And it should have been for what it was - very “light” on being a variant. In comparison - like it or hate it - a lot went into cola, and it is deserving of the “normal” variant pricing scheme.

 

They should both be maybe 9.99 now, since they're both still available at my Total Wine.

 

^ This guy gets it

 

What shop is this?