Bourbon County Brand Stout

The Lie That Goose Island Loves To Tell

Goose Island promotes itself as having created the first bourbon barrel aged stout in 1992. Except they didn't. The story of how the biggest name in barrel aged beer keeps telling the same lie.

Coming of Age

Tom and Susan Brown’s 2013 vertical tasting of Stone Vertical Epic. (Photo by Peter Wu) On a cool Saturday night