Goose Island Beer Company
Goose Island Releases Bourbon County Stout Lineup for 2022
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of their first bourbon barrel-aged stout, Goose Island is releasing 7 new Bourbon County stouts.
Back in 1992, for the 1,000th batch of Goose Island beer, the brewer Greg Hall, wanted to create something unique, a one-off beer. What resulted was the brewery’s first bourbon barrel-aged stout.
“At the time, we thought we’d never make it again,” says Hall, who left Goose Island in 2011.
As it happens, Goose Island is still making bourbon barrel-aged stouts 30 years later. It all began at a fortuitous dinner that put Hall next to Booker Noe, the legendary master distiller and grandson of Jim Beam. That chance meeting spurred the idea to age Goose Island stout in a bourbon barrel.
