Black Magick - French Oak Bourbon Cognac Casks
Voodoo Brewing Co.

Obsidian black with a thin, somewhat audible dark tan head that fairly quickly fizzles out to a silky surface with an almost imperceptible chain around the rim.

Signature Black Magick dark chars are accented by a uniquely fruity element, subtly making itself known by a fine sliver of overripe blueberry through dark chocolate with vanilla caviar bourbon oak before a distinct brandy exhale that comes in concert with cigar.

Fucking deliciously velvetty and round with a microscopically thin crispness that allows it to swallow just semi-dry.

This is way more well composed than so many of these tend to be, balanced damn near perfectly.

This one pours a very dark black color, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This smells like tobacco, dark chocolate, lots of roast, vanilla, dark fruit, and cognac.

This is absolutely one of the best Black Magicks that I’ve ever had. The cognac adds a silky fruitiness to this, and there’s also a wonderfully deep oaky spice to it. There’s a light bit of unexpected vanilla here too, with tons of dark chocolate, and a healthy roast to it. This was bottled in 2021, and has aged quite well.

This is medium bodied, rich, and creamy, and not very boozy, and pretty drinkable for what it is.

The Black Magick series is long running and almost always excellent, and this is easily in the top 3 ever, for me.

Bottled on 7/14/2021; consumed on 9/26/2023

Pours a dense, motor-oil black body and capped with a half-finger of wavy, frothy beige foam, fading quickly to a near-blank surface, moderate, creamy collar, and no lacing whatsoever holding to the walls of the glass.

Aromas of baked apple meet a fresh, roasty char upfront, with residual wisps of smoke fading into a smooth barrel gloss as sparks of dark chocolate ganache waver on the latter end of the bouquet.

Taste brings baked apple underscoring poignant roast upfront, showing aspects of malted cocoa phasing into heavy barrel char lingering past the mid-palate; bittersweet coffee transitions to an extensive cognac inflection, peaking with tones of apple bundt cake on the finish.

Mouthfeel shows a silky, medium-full body, sporting minimal carbonation fading to a spritzy lingering; drying semi-bitterness past the mid-palate leads to a rounded, roasty grit into the finish.

Your typical Black Magick profile, laden with roast and exposing layered chocolate tones between waves of barrel char and baked apple subtleties; a certain depth goes unexplored, however, leaving this iteration a bit more limited than others.