Each Black Friday, Goose Island gives us another ... drops its annual lineup of Bourbon County stouts, the barrel-aged heavies that dominate the top of its Beer Advocate ratings.

Barrel-aged stouts are now standard ... for a year in 2022 King of Kentucky bourbon barrels. Then, impressively, Goose Island transferred the beer into a fresh set of 2023 King of Kentucky barrels ...

you can splurge on four bottles of Goose Island’s Bourbon County Stout, a special-occasion beer aged for 100 days in barrels that previously held bourbon. After aging, the inky beer gives off no ...