Goodbye, Bourbon County Neapolitan Stout and Bourbon County Horchata Stout. We hardly knew you.

Hello, Bourbon County Midnight Orange Stout and Bourbon County Coffee Barleywine.

Early reports about this year’s Bourbon County beers lineup, based on federally approved beer labels this summer, apparently included a few red herrings, including stouts made to resemble Neapolitan ice cream and horchata.

According to a source, they were diversionary tactics to throw beer nerds — and the media — off the scent of this year’s actual lineup of eight beers, which was first reported by USA Today (because that’s where Goose Island handed the scoop):

Bourbon County Brand Stout

Reserve Bourbon County Brand Stout (aged in 12-year-old Elijah Craig Barrel Proof bourbon barrels)

Proprietor's Bourbon County Brand Stout (blended with dark chocolate and two types of cocoa nibs)

Bourbon County Brand Wheatwine (replacing usual release Bourbon County Brand Barleywine; wheatwine is barleywine with wheat in the grain bill)

Bourbon County Brand Vanilla Stout (aged with vanilla beans; the return of a popular release first made in 2010)

Bourbon County Brand Bramble Rye Stout (aged in rye whiskey barrels, then with an addition of raspberry and blackberry juice and puree; another former favorite)

Bourbon County Brand Coffee Barleywine (debuting this year; an English-style barleywine with Intelligentsia coffee beans from Guatemala)

Bourbon County Brand Midnight Orange Stout (made with chocolate and orange zest)

Seth Ekberg Newcomer: Bourbon County Brand Coffee Barleywine is an English-style barleywine with Intelligentsia coffee beans from Guatemala. Newcomer: Bourbon County Brand Coffee Barleywine is an English-style barleywine with Intelligentsia coffee beans from Guatemala. (Seth Ekberg)

Along with the additions of the new beers Midnight Orange and Coffee Barleywine — and disappearance of Neapolitan and Horchata (both of which were believable considering Goose Island made Bourbon County beers that mimicked bananas foster and a blueberry-almond pastry in 2017) — another surprise is the lack of Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout, which has been an annual release since 2011.

As always, the bottles will be released on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.

Another variant may find its way into the world on draft only: Bourbon County Brand Tarte Tartin Stout, which is made with “black currant and brown sugar.”

Or it may not. Who knows.

jbnoel@chicagotribune.com

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