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A Whale A Week: Black Tuesday

I’ve posted a few beers from The Bruery here over the past year including Chocolate Rain and White Chocolate.  The Bruery is an amazing place in California, a short drive from the very dry Disneyland, with a wonderful taproom featuring a plethora of crazy sours, barrel aged beers, and more.  Feel free to check my previous posts for more background and my taproom review.


The Bruery’s Black Tuesday 2011 Vintage

Black Tuesday is The Bruery’s version of a Russian Imperial stout.  This is a very strong beer, in fact one of the strongest legitimate RIS beers I’ve had–clocking in at 18.3% ABV!  The beer gets some of its booze from being aged in bourbon barrels.  The beer is named after the famous stock market crash of 1929 and is released the last Tuesday of October each year since 2009.  I’ve had this wax dipped 750 MLbottle for a few years, stored in a dark and cool cellar to keep it as fresh as possible.  This beer has a 100 rating on RateBeer and a 99 on Beer Advocate.  It is much hoarded …

Source: JABlog: A Minnesota-Centric Beer Blog

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