#bourbon county

[whatsontap]

[vintage-treasures]

Fan Quilt, Mt. Carmel. Silk and Velvet (1893) American Bourbon County residents in Kentucky stitched a masterpiece from silk and velvet scraps to celebrate the shared faith and social bonds of the Mt. Carmel congregation.

Intricate threads, paper decals, and painted details weave personal stories into a collective design that mirrors the Gilded Age's embrace of Victorian aesthetics. The work serves as a warm textile record of women who transformed domestic remnants into a fashionable narrative. The quilt remains a testament to the intersection of economy and art in 1893. Loc. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., USA. Dim. 215.9 x 183.5 cm (85 x 72 1/4 in.)

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

 by Don Sniegowski

[kahuna-64]

Goose Island brewing

[byroniuspunk]

Bourbon County 2019 - snagged the Cafe De Olla and Mon Cheri variants ...very excited to enjoy these!

[brandonsdrunkagain]

Scored Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout, my favorite of the variants and Bourbon County Brand Northwoods Stout, the small hint of blueberry over that chocolate was wonderful!

[justinsbeer]

Goose Island, BCBS Proprietors ‘15

.25/ 5 (Infected)

[whatchudrinkin]

Does Size Matter?

The forecast was calling for more winter weather, so I hunkered down with an old bottle of Bourbon County Brand Stout. It’s a nice way to keep toasty. The age has definitely cut through some of the sugar it had fresh. But it’s as boozy as ever. It poured out like motor oil, black and syrupy. It’s like sipping something sweet and sour, without the sour. The beer is like a chocolate, caramel swirl ice cream with a little brown sugar and bourbon glaze. It’s decadent but it comes off as balanced, somehow. I’m glad I only had twelve ounces.

It’s strange seeing how much smaller the bottles were just two years ago. For 2015 Goose Island moved the Bourbon County line to fancy branded bottles, 500 millilitres a piece. That’s four, almost five, ounces more beer than in the old twelve ounce bottles. When you’re talking about something over thirteen percent ethanol, that’s a lot of booze. 

I’m only noticing this because this week Firestone Walker released a new barrel aged brown ale in twelve ounce bottles. This is a step down from the twenty-two ounce bombers they usually use. But it makes perfect sense. If you’re selling a massive beer, it makes sense to shrink the packaging. You can probably move more units when the price is also a little more reasonable for the average consumer. Of course, the big bottles are meant to be shared, but it’s just as easy to buy four little bottles as two big ones.

Personally, I’m really wary of buying new beer in large formats – a key reason you don’t see me dragging growlers around. If you don’t like a can of lager, welp there goes a can. If you’re not into a corked and caged barrel aged sour ale, welp, you’re out sixteen ounces of beer. And at fifty cents a sip, pouring it down the sink is all the more painful.