Hot Garbage - Buffalo Trace Bourbon Barrel-Aged
Voodoo Brewing Co.

You might be thinking, that’s an odd name, even for Voodoo; why’d you settle on that? Well, over the course of a year, we brew a lot of different collaboration, specialty, and one-off beers that require us to bring in many raw materials we don’t regularly use – most specifically, numerous varieties of barley. Curt had the idea to thoughtfully and carefully put some of these leftover ingredients together into a new stout recipe that he jokingly deemed a “garbage stout.” As we kicked around the idea in the brewery and actually brewed the beer, it evolved into something we were internally calling Hot Garbage. We liked it, the name stuck and we’re fully embracing it. This first batch of Hot Garbage is a bit of a departure from some of the imperial stouts that we’ve made in the past, as it is composed of a smaller amount of highly roasted malts, isn’t quite as dry and features a generous amount of Belgian biscuit malt, along with an extended boil.

This singular batch of 13.6% American imperial stout was then divided up into three separate barrel treatments for 22 months each, with this batch being aged in Buffalo Trace bourbon barrels (gold wax 10.18.19).