Goose Island offers refunds: Off flavors in some Bourbon County beer

Goose Island is offering refunds for two of its renowned Bourbon County beers due to “flavors that are not consistent with our expectation of how these beers should taste,” the brewery said Friday.

Both Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout and Bourbon County Barleywine — two beers aged in wood barrels that previously held bourbon — have developed unexpected flavors in the bottle, the brewery said. After complaints to the brewery and across Internet message boards and social media, Goose Island offered the refunds in a statement issued Friday afternoon.

“All of our beer goes through a very thorough quality oversight process including sensory and microbiology programs,” Goose Island Jared Jankoski said in the statement. “This by no means is a guarantee of success especially with barrel aged beers. Both of these beers have drifted out of their target character thus leading us to provide refunds for anyone who is unsatisfied with them.”
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