A Whale A Week: Goose Island Bourbon County Stout 2009

Last week we covered the tart raspberry gem Atrial Rubicite from Jester King.  This week we return to the boozy RIS category.  This was the last of an epic whale tasting with a group of friends.  We poured this into Surly Darkness and Steel Toe snifter glasses for tasting.  Here is our cast of characters: Me (Eric)–homebrewer for over 25 years, beer judge, beer geek.  Sj–my wife who inexplicably is a woman of few words when it comes to reviewing beer.  Sean Kampshoff–Winner of National Homebrew Competition medals, beer judge, cool guy.  Jim & Cindy Moldenhauer–a very fun couple of craft beer geeks we got to know at several McCoy’s Public House beer dinners.  Sean contributed this wonder to our tasting after storing it properly for over 5 years in his cellar.

I’ve talked in the past about my personal history with Goose Island–being one of the first brewpubs that I frequented in Chicago and leading me down the craft-beer road I now speed over.   …