At Goose Island, John Laffler worked with one of Chicago beermaking's cult successes: Bourbon County Stout, an imperial stout with a fearsome 14 percent alcohol content, aged in used bourbon barrels from places like Iowa's Templeton Rye, and hunted for by fans on their release dates like a Wonka golden ticket. A bald technical description scarcely does justice to the rapture the Bourbon County Stout line provoked; here's Michael Kiser at Good Beer Hunting trying to sum it up:
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