279 - The Coveted Bourbon County Brand Stout with Bill Savage of Goose Island

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🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

While the rest of society is busting down the doors on Black Friday for TVs, the beer lovers are hitting up every liquor store to grab the most iconic barrel aged stouts on the market coming from Goose Island. Every year, Bourbon County Stout has beer lovers drooling to see what variants will be released. We’re joined by Bill Savage, a lead brewer for the barrel aging program at Goose Island, to get an inside look into one of my favorite beers of all time. We talk about the time that goes into this yearly release and what happens when yeast goes wild. Show Notes: Kroger’s Ultimate Bourbon Auction: https://one.bidpal.net/zero/welcome This week’s Above the Char with Fred Minnick talks about bourbons to pair with Thanksgiving. How old is the oldest pair of shoes in your closet? How long have you been with Goose Island? How did you end up working in the Goose Island Barrel Program? Tell us about the process. How many barrels are going into the release? How long do you age it in the barrel? Do you test each barrel? Can you over age a barrel? Do you reuse barrels? What's the rationale for the high ABV? How do you pick your variants? What's the thought process behind the collaborations with distilleries? Are you exploring aging other styles? Support this Podcast on Patreon

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0:00.0	When I introduce people to it, I'll be like, they'll be like, what's it taste like?
0:03.4	I'm like, if you could mix like soy sauce together, like it's like that.
0:07.9	Like that, you know, it's got the texture of motor oil.
0:13.0	Yeah.
0:14.0	And they're like, you love this?
0:15.2	I'm like, you're going to love it. This is episode 279 of Bourbon Pursuit, the podcast featuring news, reviews, and
0:31.2	interviews with people making the bourbon whiskey industry happen.
0:35.0	Before we start today's podcast talking about barrel-aged beers,
0:38.3	here's your weekly bourbon news update. Kroger is hosting the ultimate bourbon auction to end
0:43.8	hunger, benefiting the Dare to Care Food Bank. Some of the rarest bottles will be up for auction,
0:49.4	such as entire verticals of Happy Van Winkle and the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection, as well as other
0:54.8	rarities such as Mictor's 25 year. The all-virtual auction will be open for everyone,
1:00.5	and it started back on November 9th and will be running through November 18th of 2020, ending at 9 p.m.
1:06.7	Eastern, and it's free for everybody to participate, as well as you are donating to a 501c3.
1:12.7	You can visit 1.vidpal.net slash zero slash welcome, or you can just use the link in our show notes
1:19.2	to see all the items up for auction and start placing your bids.
1:22.9	In June of 2018, in response to the U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum, the European Union imposed a 25% tariff on bourbon,
1:31.5	which has now resulted in a 41% decline in American whiskey exports to the European Union.
1:37.6	Now the European Union is imposing a tariff of 25% on U.S. rum, brandy, vodka, and vermouth, which will increase the tensions around
1:46.5	the Airbus and the Boeing disputes and further damage the once booming transatlantic
1:51.3	drinks trade. Now, let's go ahead and move on to some bourbon release news. Beryl Bourbon
1:56.9	is releasing a new project in December called the Barrel Private Release Bourbon series.
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