Own the Barrels Goose Island Uses to Age Its Beers

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Maybe you're among the beer geeks scrambling to get your hands on this year's Bourbon County Stout. Maybe you love whiskey and everything about it. Maybe you have the room in your home for a used bourbon barrel.

Goose Island is hosting a unique sale Saturday at its Fulton Street brewery from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Saturday. They're selling the barrels used to make Bourbon County Stout and other beers.

60 barrels will be available on a first come, first served basis for $30 each. At 53 gallons, these are huge barrels. Goose Island will be looking to dump some Heaven Hill barrels used in the aging of Bourbon County Stout, and some Heaven Hill rye barrels used in the aging of their Bramble Rye.

If this sale interests you, be warned: you will get these barrels as-is. Some of these barrels may contain fruit pulp, they won't be rinsed and, once you buy it, you're responsible for getting it home and any damages that may incur en route. For a full disclaimer, feel free to email them. We'd personally would love to saw them in half length-wise and turn them into benches. Or buy a ton of beer and age it.

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By Chuck Sudo in Food on December 1, 2011 3:25 PM 0 Comments

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CGMethven

Thanks for the tip Chuck. Got there in time to snag one

BlueFairlane

Also, Heaven Hill is in Nelson County, not Bourbon County. That always bugs me. Ironically, I don't think any bourbons come out of Bourbon County, which is northeast of Lexington.

Edit before I get slammed by random roaming internet folk: I was not correcting Chuck, who said nothing about where Heaven Hill is in relation to Bourbon County. I was expressing an ongoing annoyance with whoever named this beer Bourbon County.

chicagoist_tips

Then you're right in line with the folks who are still up in arms that 312 Urban Wheat Ale will soon be brewed in New York.

ChicagoD

Interestingly, I don't believe that any Bourbons come out of Bourbon County either. Louis "Jim Bob" XXI was the last, I believe.

BlueFairlane

Fun Kentucky facts you didn''t ask for: The early settlers of Kentucky started pouring into the state through the Cumberland Gap around 1775, when colonial types were really pissed at England. They expressed this bitterness by naming most of the towns -villes and -burgs instead of -towns. Louisville was named in honor of the still headed Louis XVI, as was Bourbon County, one of the three original Kentucky counties. (There are now 120). The county seat of Bourbon County is Paris, a dinky little town about 20 miles from Lexington ... which was, of course, named for the battle.