Black Tuesday
The Bruery in Placentia, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating|
Score
8.16
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Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout
Elegant, innovative, complex: Black Tuesday provides a uniquely elevated beer-drinking experience unlike any other. Rich, complex flavor from time spent aging in bourbon barrels mingles effortlessly with distinct notes of crème brûlée, poached figs, and milk chocolate. Surprisingly smooth at 19.7% ABV, this is a beer you won’t soon forget.
Elegant, innovative, complex: Black Tuesday provides a uniquely elevated beer-drinking experience unlike any other. Rich, complex flavor from time spent aging in bourbon barrels mingles effortlessly with distinct notes of crème brûlée, poached figs, and milk chocolate. Surprisingly smooth at 19.7% ABV, this is a beer you won’t soon forget.
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7/10
Boozy, sweetish and heavy with bourbon notes, some licorice, syrup, oak and wood. Heavy and still quite stingy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jun 2023
at 22:14
7/10
Triple barrel aged. Slow sipper. Figs on figs drenched in bourbon
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Mar 2023
at 21:13
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Bottleshare XX in De Beugel (brought by yours truly). Pitch black colour, small brownish head. Aroma's: boozy, sweet, molasses, chocolate, bourbon, vanilla, intense but balanced. Flavour is heavy sweet, syruppy, bourbon. Strong alcohol feel, but not at all too hot or burning. Full bodied, syruppy. Long finish. This is how I imagined BT to be before I ever had it, but apparently you have to store it for 10 years. Highlight of the evening if I may say so myself, but I wasn't the only one who thought so.
Tried
from Bottle
at
The Bruery
on 08 Mar 2023
at 21:12
9/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2022
at 14:09
8/10
Sweet, boozy, oily. Rich caramel, raisin, hefty booze but really smooth. Brilliant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2022
at 19:23
8/10
Heavy and slightly roasty with hints of barrel, bourbon, syrup but alcohol is surprisingly well hidden. Has mellowed out nicely
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2022
at 18:52
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
750 bottle foggy medium brown Very nice Carmel and light roast aromas. Plenty of bourbon character. Fairly hot and the ABV is present.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Nov 2022
at 02:02
9/10
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Tried
on 23 Oct 2022
at 15:14
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, shared by Jon, 2011 version. Pours black. Raisin, chocolate, brandy soaked dried fruit, rich fig liqueur, cranberry, biscuit, intense oaky vanilla, plenty of booze. Nice oily body. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2022
at 02:44
8.5/10
Side by side with 2010. Massive difference, this is clearly more a traditional black Tuesday as we know it, with some age on it. Big, boozy bourbon, and pretty earthy from the age. Tiniest oxidation is noticable. Yummy, but lost to 2010.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Sep 2021
at 22:00