Bourbon County 2017

It's not being released at all unfortunately.

 

Oh you ripped the band-aid right off

 

Yeah would rather spend the $100 toward an allotment instead of some pours and merch. Plus figured FOBAB would cover most of the sampling of the variants so no point of sampling again.

 

damn, major bummer, infections already happening huh?

 

That's the speculation, but.. Goose hasn't commented beyond "it doesn't taste like we wanted it to"

 

lol trying to stay away from the "i" word it looks like. regardless thats a major bummer

 

It could actually not be infected. The Bourbon County Brand is synonymous with delicious top of the line beer (minus 2015 infectiongate). What if they just tasted it and thought, damn, this is not to our customer's standards. We would rather eat this cost than put something not up to par. I can respect that, and I think that is what happened there.

 

I saw Binny's tweeted today that they would be announcing the Black Friday details mid-November. That would point towards next week sometime, which is not much more than a week before Black Friday and about a week and a half later than last year. Even though I'm going anyway, I just want to know...especially since I feel that announcement probably has to come before other stores/bars find out what they are getting and what events they will have.

 

Care to elaborate?

 

Personally I thought Regal Rye was perfectly good. However, I've talked to people who are absolutely convinced that no bottles of Prop '14 tasted strongly of coconut (they did) and that they were all cinnamon bombs (they weren't). So clearly individual bottle variation is pretty real with BCS variants (not to mention the standard "different palates" comment).

 

I've heard a few different times that Reserve BW suffered from inconsistency in the barrels used to aged the beer ... which keeps me holding out hope that they kegged some of the 'good' barrels and will release them someday at the taproom or special events

 

Coconut water has very little flavor so it must have been a bloodhound who picked coconut up in 2014 or perhaps someone who didn't understand they were drinking 2013. And they weren't all cinnamon bombs, they didn't have cinnamon in them. They were all cassia bark bombs!

 

Have I not mentioned before that I'm part of a family of bloodhounds? And that my wife is also a bloodhound (part of why we're married)?

Seriously though, I cracked a bottle of Prop '14 Black Friday of that year and commented how much more coconut I got from it than '13 (which is still my all-time favorite, but not because it was coconut forward). My wife and sister both had it and agreed. I have had multiple bottles since, and one tasted almost exclusively of cinnamon (so I finally got what people were talking about), but also had one afterwards that tasted more balanced. I hate coconut water (LOVE coconut flavor), so I get what you're saying, but...

 

i drank all the bourbon county

 

That sucks. I found myself pondering whether there could have been more fruit. I'm glad I didn't get the opposite end of the spectrum.

"Viscous black with almost no head--it displays as a thin mocha blanket at first, but fizzles out permanently.

Smell is rich and decadent fudge with oily, deep and heavy walnut. A faint salty sweetness creeps in the background, but really there isn't much of a hint of fruit on the nose. A bit of charred oak emerges as it warms.

Taste is chocolatey brownie speckled with raisin. Some blackberry sharpness cuts in with chocolate covered cherry. In fact, this tasted surprisingly like regular Dark Lord to both of us. Some wet walnut, hot oak and burnt vanilla sugar develop over time.

Thick and full-bodied, with a slight bit of cutting fizz."

It's crazy the different experiences we all seem to be getting and reporting in this very thread, whereas before I used to consider this one of the most consistent BA stout brands in the game...

 

Yeah, I haven't had any bad experiences with Regal Rye either. I've had it quite a few times, and even though I'm not a big fan of fruit in my stout, I've come to like it quite a bit. Makes me wonder if I would've liked Bramble Rye had I drank it more as well - I didn't care for that when I had it on draft once.

 

I really disliked Regal when I had it shortly after release, easily my least favorite variant. Had it a year later and was really impressed. Time did good things to that one in my opinion (although if you loved it initially maybe it did bad things).

 

I really liked Regal fresh. Had it a few times aged and still enjoyed it but the pour I had back in June I could tell it was getting past its prime. The only problem is with only 2 years of age on it who knows if this beer has a reverse bell curve. Could it be good again in a year? I have one bottle left and have gone back and forth over whether or not I want to open it now or ride it out.