Goose Island 2015 Bourbon County Barleywine Question

Don't add it if it's the basic Barleywine. Yes, ABV varies from release to release, and in some cases different ABVs within the same year, for different markets. That's fine, just state what it is in your review.

 

the barleywine has been released multiple
Years. Each year the abv varies. Sometimes beers will have specific release dates associated with the beer. For example 2014 BC barleywine. 2015 BC barleywine. It doesn’t appear that there are separate listings/reviews for different vintages of BCBW. The BCBW you provided a link for was created in 2013 so a different beer.

 

No. If it's the same beer, but different years and ABV, the BA rule is that you just have one. If you create one for each year, then mods eventually clean that up and combining them. Makes more work for them. Only create a new beer if it's substantially different - different name, difference in add-junks, etc.

A good example of this is BCBS Coffee. It's come out multiple years, but there's only one on BA.

 

I forget which year but I remember getting a hold of two different ABVs of the stout for the same vintage. Was interesting to try the two different blends.

 

there are a few beers that have listings for every year it releases

 

Yup, and if if it's the same beer released multiple times, they eventually get consolidated when mods notice or it's reported. A lot of people don't realize they're not supposed to do that, so it keeps happening.

A good example is Founders KBS. We don't need one every year for the base KBS. We do need one for each new variant since they change the add-junks and the name from the base beer.

 

I thought that if the vintage of a repeated beer had a year on the label, it's a different listing?

In the Goose Island case, it's not fair for the 2015 infections and the associated reviews to be affecting ratings of clean beers from other years.

 

There sure are a lot of variables to this, such as a year on the label, or using barrels from a different bourbon. Should come down to whether the 'recipe' changes substantially - are they really different beers? Some are pretty clear cut such as Utopias, KBS, or KBBS. I doubt there are and hard and fast rules the mods use, are there @Todd ?

 

You're gonna self combust

 

for real. if a girl gave me the clap but everyone else after me got a clean plate she'd still be a 0/5 for life