Goose Island Bourbon County Stout - Sir Isaac's

Goose Island Bourbon County Stout - Sir Isaac's

Brewed by Goose Island Beer Company

Chicago, IL, United States

Style:  Imperial Stout

13.9% Alcohol by Volume

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Stout aged in bourbon barrels with figs, graham crackers, and natural flavor. Notes of dried fruit, honey, brown sugar, and lime zest. For years, brewers at Goose Island have brainstormed ways to incorporate figs in Bourbon County Stout, but faced a daunting task due to their subtle flavor. After fresh thinking from members of the Goose Island E-commerce team, Melissa Alleguez and Ryan Hubona crafted a recipe inspired by Melissa’s childhood memories of stealing fig cookies out of her grandma’s cookie jar during her summers on Lake Michigan. And thus, the fig cookie and graham cracker-inspired Sir Isaac’s Stout was created. Highlighting the dried fried profiles extracted from the bourbon in the barrels, our brewers used Black Mission figs (10,000 pounds of them, to be specific) to create this variant resulting in characteristics of dried fruit, honey, molasses, and citrus, all reminiscent of the classic fig cookie sold on shelves today.