Goose Island The Illinois
Goose Island The Illinois
Rated 3.550 by BeerPalsBrewed by Goose Island Beer Company
Chicago, IL, United States
Style: Imperial IPA
9% Alcohol by Volume
95 International Bittering Units
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Brewer's Notes: The first Imperial beer of the year is The Illinois, a 9.0% ABV 95 IBU Imperial IPA that pushes the limits of hop flavor and aroma. Deep gold, complex citrus aroma, balanced clean bitterness, medium to full body. Recipe Information: Style: Imperial IPA Alcohol by Volume: 9.0% International Bitterness Units: 95 Color: Deep Gold Hops: Chinook, Cascade, Citra, Meridian Malts: 2-Row, Special Pale, C-20, C-60, Cara Red
ID: 56475 Last updated 1 month ago Added to database 10 years agoKey Stats
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Statistics
| Overall Rank | 2478 |
| Overall Percentile | 95.6 |
| Style Rank | 201 of 2721 |
| Style Percentile | 92.6 |
| Lowest Score | 2.7 |
| Highest Score | 4.6 |
| Average Score | 3.880 |
| Weighted Score | 3.550 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.712 |
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5 Member Reviews
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8
A bright orange-copper colored beer with a big sudsy textured, odd white head rising above. There's decent hang time on the head. A thick ringlet is left behind. Pine nose and pine tasting. A definite hop presence but not offensively so. Bright, effervescent. Very well done.
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Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 8
Discovered this on a recent trip to the local Superstore. It was on special, $2 off, making it only $8.99/four-pack. Pours an amber color with two finger foamy eggshell hued head. Spidery lacing on the sides of the glass. Grapefruit, mango, sappy, resinous pine cones with some sweet malt on the nose. Very balanced, with the citrus, resiny hops and sweet malt all equally sharing the flavor profile. Has an oily mouthfeel, which is full and rich. Flavors mellow and blend and merge as the beer warms. I wish Goose Island would brew more of these types of beer. By that I mean more specialty beers. Love their Bourbon County Stout and Night Stalker (still sitting on a bottle from 2009) and had an IIPA of theirs on draft many years ago. A solid IIPA.
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Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9
Comes out of the tap hazy amber with a nice fine-bubbled buff head. Aroma is quite hoppy, as resiny as woody. Flavor is very hoppy, in this case a little more woody, slightly sweet, with citrus and evergreen hints.firm texture has fizz to spare. Get goosed!
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8
Pours a clear brownish yellow with a half inch of head. Good amount of lacing. The aroma is a big juicy whiff of citrus sweetness, floral hop hints. The taste is some citrus peel with some floral hops as well as pine. Sweet caramel malts with a flowery hop bitterness towards the end as well as some citrus peel. Slightly bready at times. Slick, oily mouthfeel with a moderate amount of carbonation. Overall, its not a hop bomb but its still a really good Imperial IPA
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Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4
12 oz bottle, bottled on 2/7/14. Pours clear golden amber with a medium pillowy white head that retains well and leaves some lacing.
The aroma is subdued - sweet caramel malt, alcohol and a little grassy, piney, minty hops.
The flavor is sweet biscuity caramel malt, lots of sharp alcohol, a little fruit and a big green bitterness. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with smooth carbonation.
Overall, I'm not a fan. Too much predominant alcohol, overly sweet and biscuity, and not much hop flavor.
