Black Tuesday - Grand Reserve (2021)
The Bruery in Placentia, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.65
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Triple barrel-aged imperial stout
Complex, decadent, and massive, Black Tuesday is the perfect base for experimentation— which is why this triple barrel-aged iteration is fittingly dubbed “Grand Reserve.” For the 2021 release, we took the classic Black Tuesday, aged in new-to-us bourbon barrels for a year, and aged it in separate bourbon barrels for an additional year, before transferring it yet again to apple brandy barrels for a final year. Triple the barrel aging, triple the complexity, triple the grandness.
Complex, decadent, and massive, Black Tuesday is the perfect base for experimentation— which is why this triple barrel-aged iteration is fittingly dubbed “Grand Reserve.” For the 2021 release, we took the classic Black Tuesday, aged in new-to-us bourbon barrels for a year, and aged it in separate bourbon barrels for an additional year, before transferring it yet again to apple brandy barrels for a final year. Triple the barrel aging, triple the complexity, triple the grandness.
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8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle 12.7fl.oz. @ home - fonefan & Brugmansia House. 🏠🇩🇰 💻👀 ❄☃️ ☁️☂️ [ As The Bruery Black Tuesday - Grand Reserve (2021) ]. ABV: 21.3%. [20260128]. -9/4/-9/5/18.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2026
at 17:10
7/10
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Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Sep 2025
at 02:02
8/10
Smooth(!), warming and slightly roasty with some cocoa, chocolate, hints of molasses, licorice, vinous port and earthy woody oaky notes. Surprisingly thin body, a bit boozy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2025
at 18:38
9/10
Boozy (gee really?), rich, thin body. Bourbon on top of bourbon, chocolate, raisin, hefty. Still smooth and balanced, delicious, awesome.
Tried
on 04 Apr 2025
at 15:34
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Bottle, 375 ml. Shared with Luka and MiroB. Dark dark brown with beige head. Chocolate and bourbon. Some barrel. Quite warming with some alcohol coming through. Medium bodied. Tasty, but heat is there.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Oct 2024
at 22:00
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours clear, very dark brown. No head. No sign of carbonation. Scent is boozy, but not as much as feared. Lots of chocolate, vanilla, milder but present wood. Taste is full, intense roast, overly high ABV - sharp and boozy, very woody. Vanilla, oak, over-the-top booze. Unpleasant, even. Not bad in general, but this would score way higher for me if the ABV had some sanity to it, or the beer more balance to support the booze.
Tried
on 08 Aug 2023
at 16:45