Small Batch Hoarders: Black Tuesday Grand Reserve
The Bruery

Small Batch Hoarders: Black Tuesday Grand Reserve pours a dark brown with a little head. The aroma is deep and rich, with hints of dry pit fruit and raisins. The flavor is rich, with a hint of sweetness, pit fruit, raisins, lots of barrel, and hints of whiskeys, with dark cereal. Good feel. Overall, it is a big, rich, stout, mature, and great sipper. It is not too sweet for how big it is.

Review 1700
Small Batch Hoarders Black Tuesday Grand Reserve
The Bruery
Date: 2018
Triple Barrel-Aged Stout
I am excited to drink this beer! I think it is a feat that I have reached 1700 reviews. I am looking forward to the next 1700. I pulled out this beast of a beer at 22 percent. I do not recall drinking a triple barrel-aged beer. I used a tulip glass; the temperature was 50 degrees. The hard pour did create a tiny head of no significance. I am surprised something was created. The color of the head is dark tan and foamy. The color is SRM 38; dark used oily brown, nearly black. The beer is not pretty to look at.
The first aromas I smell are bourbon, oak, and roasty malts. Nosing further, I detect caramel, toffee, molasses, figs, raisins, vinous, char, tobacco, leather, anise, bready, and floral. The bourbon barrel-age dominates the nose.
My first sip was like a premium bourbon with an elegant dark beer gingerly mixed in. The flavors I taste are char, caramel, anise, toffee, molasses, raisins, cherries, leather, tobacco, toasty bread, vinous, chocolate, coffee, and oak.
The mouthfeel is warming. The body is heavy, the carbonation is low, and a delightfully long finish.
Oh My God, this beer is something special. The beer teeters on the brink of not being a beer. For as big as this beer is, it is incredibly smooth. What amazed me; was the barrel age was heavy but not overbearing. A month back, I had Irish Whiskey aged in stout barrels or something like that. I remember the whiskey was two separate entities smashed to gather. The harmony equates; a grandmother who has been knitting for years perfectly creating a blanket flawlessly. The way The Bruery composed this beer is a marvel. Everything could have gone wrong, but nothing did. I would love to drink this again.

Look: jet black, or I guess uber dark brown. Sparse head on the pour that dissipates, no surprise. Oily sheen coats the side of the glass.
Smell: bourbon, roasty, vanilla goodness. Huge nose.
Taste: I want to say, like the nose, and it is, but so freaky that it’s so damn smooth for such a huge brew. Damn.

Nose is fairly strong, but reveals little. Brown sugar, bourbon, oak, wine-like booze.

Hot and boozy on the palate; a very, very slow sipper. The hot bite is almost too much, requiring an almost liquor-like approach to sipping.

Flavor is not overly complex, but it’s rich and rewarding. Brown sugar, bourbon, oak, raisin, red grape; toffee, honeycomb; nuts; coconut on the finish.

This is a special beer that took a lot of care to produce, and could have gone wrong any number of ways over more than three years. It’s a testament to the brewers’ patience, care, vision, and skill.

A: Poured into a snifter to a black beer topped by a very small light tan head which fades quickly to a collar around the edge of the glass with minimal lacing
S: Smells of an obscene amount of barrel aging. Tons of caramel, vanilla, and oak rounded out with some chocolate and espresso. Slight cherry like note with a hint of what almost smells like wine as well.
T: Taste is sweet chocolate, oak, charred wood, espresso, caramel, vanilla, roasted malts, burnt sugars , hint of that cherry note, with a touch of wine. On the swallow there's more chocolate, oak, vanilla, caramel, cherry, charred wood, espresso, and hints of a wine note.
M: This beer is on the heavier side of things with a fairly silky body. Carbonation is low but adequate for the style while the monster ABV ensures that this beer has a drying finish.
O: Overall this beer is on another level. Great flavors, huge complexity and a surprising lack of heat. I've let this one sit for awhile and it held up well. Definitely happy to see this one made it into the regular rotation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unfiltered murky brown color. No head.

Very boozy. Massive bourbon, oak, and vanilla. Chocolate and fudge. Raisins, caramel, and toffee.

Warming. Too strong and too boozy to be super enjoyable.