Goose Island Cook County Stout

FTFY

 

I think nightstalker is the base for bourbon county. Big john and nightstalker arnt barrel aged.

 

http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/bourbon-county-sightings.19103/page-31#post-497536

 

Nightstalker is a hopped up version of CCS, so its not the base for BCS.

 

Somebody call dvelcich to school these kids on some Cook County Stout.

 

I feel obliged to chime in since I'm the "definitive" source of BCS-related information.

 

..... and what are you chiming?

 

Isn't:

Nightstalker dry hopped BCS base
Big John Cocoa Nibs BCS base
BCS = BA Bcs base all blended
Baudonia = Low storage BA BCS base

 

FTFY

[winking emoticon]

 

FTFY

 

Ain't 'nuff room on this here bandwagon for the both of you's.

 

I give the people what they want.

Cook County is the base for Night Stalker (dry hopped), Big John (with cocoa nibs), and Bourbon County (barrel aged). It has only been tapped one time at an event during the Craft Brewers Conference of 2010, where it was unlabeled. The story is that Greg Hall (former brewmaster) overheard someone else call it Cook County Stout that night, and the name stuck. It is a beer that was made to be barrel aged. On its own, it's supposedly rather unimpressive and, from the mouth of Brett Porter (current brewmaster), it will never be released to the public.

Also, the story behind Big John is that it was originally supposed to be Bourbon County Brand Chocolate Stout (this is from several reps and one of the barrelmasters), but they didn't have the barrel capacity at the time. It's a shame because that beer was released at Sheffield's (also during a Craft Brewers Conference event in 2010), and it was fantastic. Word is that some sort of chocolate BCBS may be released, but it would be more of a Mexican chocolate version with chilies and/or spices added.

I could go on about Bourbon County and its variants all night, but it's past my bedtime.

 

Strangely enough, I did have this beer at the Fulton Industry event in 2010. Was a bit meh. While that event was one of the coolest things I've ever been lucky enough to go to (Thanks again, Pipeworks! )

Cocoa BCS at that Sheffields Takeover (Where they had Ancho, Vanilla, etc.. in August 2010?? Fun night!) was pretty damn good though.

 

No you didn't. Baudonia isn't that good by comparison IMO

 

Chocolate BCS was part of the blending event at GTOM. 'twas magical

 

It was a great event, but it wasn't really Chocolate BCBS. What they did for the blending event was pick through regular barrels that had distinct flavors, namely bourbon-y (alcohol), smokey, chocolaty, and vanilla-y. The one at Sheffield's was Bourbon County with cocoa nibs added, a distinct variant, not just BCBS that tastes chocolaty (my guess is that the chocolaty barrels they used for the Great Taste were the ones they used to blend Baudoinia).

 

How have you not learned by now to not post any information you think you know about BCS. You should probably get independent verification from here on out before posting any "facts" about beer.

 

Stop hogging it. I got a cat to feed too.

 

so that is what you call it to entice the ladies, I like your style.