Forget Black Friday…It’s Bourbon Friday! 🥃+🍺
In 1992 Greg Hall, wanted to brew something truly unique for the brewpub’s 1,000th batch, he just needed inspiration. Then a chance encounter between Greg and Jim Beam’s Booker Noe led to Goose Island acquiring the barrels for what was to become the world’s first bourbon barrel aged beer. The young brewmaster soon found himself in the uncharted waters of bourbon barrel aged beer.
What we got for YOU!
2025 Drafts
Original: aged in a blend of freshly emptied barrels from Buffalo Trace, Heaven Hill, Four Roses, and Wild Turkey with an average aging time of 12 months.
Cherries Jubilee: aged first in freshly emptied bourbon barrels and then finished in cognac barrels, adding elegant notes of dried fruit and contributing to a rich, full mouthfeel.
Chocolate Praline: aged in freshly emptied bourbon barrels and layered with a blend of cocoa nibs, hazelnuts, almonds, cashews, and dates.
2025 Bottles (1 per customer)
*Original (see above) (no limit)
Cherries Jubilee (see above)
Chocolate Praline (see above)
Double Barrel: in collaboration with Heaven Hill Distillery, this release was aged in not one, but two sets of freshly emptied Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond Bourbon barrels.
Parker’s Heritage: aged two years in coveted Parker's Heritage Collection 10-year 17th Edition Rye Whiskey barrels.
*Very Limited Supplies / No Holds
2024 Bottles
Vanilla Rye Stout: A new take on the 2014 version, this is a rye imperial stout aged in rye whiskey barrels and finished with Madagascar vanilla beans.
Macaroon Stout: A new variant aged in bourbon barrels and then conditioned with cocoa nibs, sweet candied ginger, and toasted coconut to evoke the flavor of a macaroon.
See YOU at The Tap!
Please drink responsibly.
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