Black Tuesday - 24K Tuesday
The Bruery

 

Dark, almost black color. Thin, beige head. The aroma is pretty much a carrot cake and bourbon. The same notes follow into taste. Good but certainly very special, so do not expect everyone to like it.

Review: 2420
Name: Black Tuesday 24K Tuesday
Brewery: The Bruery
Location: Placentia, CA
Style: Barrel-aged imperial stout
ABV: 17.5%
Canned: 22 September 2021
Date: 02 June 2025
I am a fan of carrot cake; it has been a few years since I have indulged. I fondly remember my grandma used to make these dense, decadent, carrot and raisin-forward cakes with gooey icing. The beer's bottle has a golden metallic wax that comes off easily. Prying the cap off, a lovely hiss emits, followed by baking spice and a drop of the liquid. A quick lick, indeed, confirms the baking spice and imperial stout. The tidbit only made me yearn for more. The hard pour created the head quite fast and dissipated simultaneously, leaving nothing on the glass or the liquid. The color is inky black with dark, rusty brown hues. It is opaque but has floaties. Overall, it was an average showing, which was dismal for The Bruery.
At the first whiff, I smell raisins, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, caramel, earthy carrots, light chocolate, lightly roasted coffee, molasses, and bourbon. Smelling the beer again, I detect vanilla, bread, cake, malty sweetness, oak, a skosh of char, anise, dark stone fruit, and dates.
The first sip verified the baking spices of nutmeg, cloves, and cinnamon, followed by earthy carrot, light chocolate, molasses, cake, bready, vanilla, raisins, and bourbon. Sipping the beer again, I taste oak, char, light-roasted coffee, dried cherries, dates, malty sweetness, and a light nuttiness.
The body is heavy with low carbonation. The mouthfeel is chewy and smooth, and the finish is warm.
Final Thought: I was turned off when I noticed 24K had walnuts. I am not a fan of walnuts; they are dried, tasteless, yet oily. I prefer a pecan. If this beer had pecans, that would pique my interest. I am glad only a faint note of the nut pushes through the big imperial stout. The flavors are like chewing on a spice cake with some earthiness from the carrots. It's a solid offering from one of my favorite breweries.

375ml bottle poured into a snifter

A- pours black in color with just a hint of light on the edges, one finger foamy khaki head reduces to a ring around the edge

S- aroma is primarily cinnamon, with some fruity raisin notes and chocolate. Boozy malty undertones of BT come through, along with bourbon barrel that adds oak, caramel and a compliment to the vanilla notes from the lactose.

T- cinnamon leads the way, as with the nose, followed by notes of raisin and chocolate. Mid-palate brings out the boozy base of BT, which adds caramel to the mix, along with the barrel that gives barrel
Juice and peppery oak. The lactose gives a nice sweetness at the mid-palate that counters the booze, while adding a creamy vanilla note, almost like icing. The finish gives cinnamon and chocolate with a linger of barrel and raisin.

M- medium body with moderate carbonation leads to abrupt mouthfeel that turns slightly creamy into a warming, boozy finish

O- couldn’t really find carrot or walnut but it definitely has a spiced cake and icing vibe. Good stuff.

Black Tuesday - 24K Tuesday pours a murky, brown color with chunks of something. The aroma is big notes of raisins, very sweet, and spicy. The flavor has notes of cinnamon, lots of raisins, vanilla, and cream cheese. Good feel. It is a lovely, desert-like stout with lots of dried raisins.

A very strange beer, and I understand the low ratings. Top of my glass has a bunch of orange floaters, and this is one of the lightest colored stouts I’ve ever seen. Strong scents of spice, nuts, dark fruit, carrots, and bourbon. Taste presents all of those. It’s got a sweetness, spiciness, and booziness that coexist, but I don’t know if they should. A little thick, a little syrupy, and way boozy. Interesting attempt that only delivers halfway.

This one pours a murky dark brown-ish color, just kind of muddy and not appealing, with a small head, and no lacing.

This smells like cinnamon, nutmeg, cake, vanilla, and milk chocolate.

On just the first sip only, this was alright – a good if slightly sloppy impression of carrot cake. But, it gets extremely tiring from the second sip on, as the heavy duty spices combined with the sort of feeling that this is just liquified carrot cake just sort of grates on you. It’s quite sweet, and but also too heavily spiced, and just kind of syrupy.

This is syrupy, too thick, and not boozy at all. It’s not very drinkable.

I had high hopes for this, but it really didn’t work.

This pours a a rather thin, deep brown/back, brief fizzy tan head that dissipates to nothing. There is a ton of floating sediment - it appears to be carrot? - floating in this beer. It has the appearance of black garbage disposal liquid. Mamma Mia Pizza Beer had the courtesy of filtering food solids from their beer; the Bruery doesn't. Nose is, well, carrot cake - baking spices are spot on, maybe even a little nuttiness. No aroma from base beer. Taste follows pretty closely as well - it plays very sweet and syrupy, though on the back end, there's a some nice bitter molasses and burnt sugar that's suggestive of Black Tuesday. The flavors don't really gel - it's more like a pump of one of those coffee house sugar syrups followed by a Black Tuesday chaser. Mouthfeel is moderate, a little less heavy than BT. This beer a good reminder to drink more Black Tuesday.

 

 

 

Brownish deep black body, tan collar. Anise, carrot cake spices, big black strap molasses, walnut, and supporting dark chocolate and bourbon with hints of vanillins led oak in nose. Taste starts with big anise, bourbon soaked oak, brown sugar, spices, before finishing molasses sets in with more booze. Feel is boozy but thins a bit through the sip, spices felt in the midst of the heavy body. A truly unique take on this massive stout that was more interesting than great

Pours brownish and looks more like a barleywine than a stout. Aroma is solid combo of spices, bourbon, carrots and vanilla. Taste is more like a holiday ale. Mouthfeel is solid.

12.7 ounce wax capped bottle, bottled on 09/22/21. Served in a snifter, the beer pours a very dark brown color with about an inch tan head that didn't stick around long at all. Lots of floaties in the glass too. I like the aroma, the brew smells like spices, carrots, raisin, walnuts, vanilla and bourbon. I think the taste is pretty much just like the aroma, but there's also some cream and dark fruity flavors noticeable too. It really does smell and taste like a carrot cake, great job with that! Mouthfeel/body is medium/full, it's slick and a bit syrupy with a moderate amount of carbonation. As I'm a fan of carrot cake, I liked this brew a lot. Definitely worth trying if you like carrot cake, or just big stouts in general!

Wow. I don’t hand out 5s very often, but the taste on this one is completely on point. Every listed ingredient is present; and completely balanced. This is a BT-soaked piece of carrot cake. Awesome.

 

Look: deep dark Tuesday, murkier than the base. Sparse head on the pour that recedes completely.
Smell: like carrot cake! Sweet, aromatic spice, bourbon.
Taste: nailed the carrot cake. Creamy, sweet, aromatic spice. An adult carrot cake.