Overview
- Goose Island announced Tuesday that its 2026 Bourbon County Brand lineup is complete and that bottles of each variant will go on sale Nov. 27, 2026 (Black Friday).
- The Bourbon County Brand Original Stout is a multi-distillery barrel blend aged an average of 13 months in Buffalo Trace, Heaven Hill, Four Roses and Wild Turkey barrels and was bottled at 14.2% ABV.
- A Chicago-only Proprietor’s Stout recreates pineapple upside-down cake using pineapple, Montmorency cherry and panela sugar while the Apple Crisp Stout uses real apples, oats and baking spices to evoke fresh-baked dessert notes.
- Goose Island is debuting a rum-cask finish of the Original in a Tiramisu Cask Finish stout that was aged in bourbon barrels then finished in rum casks with espresso, cocoa nibs and vanilla, and it is also releasing a Toasted Barrel Rye Stout finished in Elijah Craig toasted rye barrels.
- The lineup expands beyond stout with a Triple Oak Barleywine aged in Angel’s Envy Triple Oak bourbon barrels and finished in Chinkapin, French and Hungarian oak casks, a move noted as the first non-adjunct Bourbon County barleywine since 2022 that is likely to drive collector interest and limited-release events.