Brooklyn Brewery is again once more with one other bottling — properly, a canning, this 12 months — of its iconic bourbon barrel-aged Black Ops, which for the fourth 12 months operating is a collaboration with 4 Roses bourbon. The 2022 Black Ops Imperial Stout spent 9 months ending in 4 Roses Small Batch Bourbon barrels — in different phrases, most likely a mixture of 4 Roses’ 10 totally different manufacturing varieties.
A bit decrease in abv than the 2020 expression we final encountered, this 12 months’s Black Ops does certainly really feel barely skinny as compared, although that might not be the worst factor if you’re previous 10% alcohol. Quite fizzier than I bear in mind, the additional carbonation supplies a lightness on the physique that helps to raise up the notes of chocolate and raisin that dominate the palate. I attempted this subsequent to a glass of 4 Roses Small Batch and you may solely actually see the household resemblance in its sweeter components, notes of caramel and vanilla lingering on the end. That oxidized wine character that (to my palate) mars so many barrel-aged beers rears its head right here, leaving the end overly candy, extra previous jam than molasses. Whereas not off-putting, it’s the only stumble in an in any other case on-point fireplace brew.
11.5% abv.
A- / $16 per four-pack of 16 oz cans / brooklynbrewery.com
Brooklyn Brewery Black Ops (2022)
$16
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