Brooklyn Black Ops
Barrel-aged in Woodford Reserve barrels. Brooklyn Black Ops does not exist. However, if it did exist, it would be a robust stout concocted by the Brooklyn brewing team under cover of secrecy and hidden from everyone else at the brewery. Supposedly, "Black Ops" was aged for four months in bourbon barrels, bottled flat, and re-fermented with Champagne yeast, creating big chocolate and coffee flavors with a rich underpinning of vanilla-like oak notes. They say it’s vanishingly rare. We have no idea what they’re talking about.
3.9
1024 reviews
Brooklyn, United States
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From bottle at Brooklyn Brewery, New York. Strong Bourbon aroma with vanilla, wood, roasted malt, some chocolate. Pretty strong barrel influence, body could be a bit more full. Moderate to medium sweet, mildly roasty bitter. Ends a bit dry-ish, for the style. Good, but not mindblowing.
Leather and tobacco. A bit sweet but an extraordinary drinkable beer for it's strenght
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Second premium 750ml sample of Superbowl XLVI. 2011 version ABV 11.5%. I gotta admit....I am spoiled now after trying the North Coast barrel-aged Old Rasp. This is very similar in style, just not as well-balanced and IMO does not compete. Still though, a top-notch brew that I would recommend, as the flavors are about the same....bold chocolate malt, coffee/toffee, maybe some licorice. I found the bourbon flavor a bit too much, making this a tad overly sweet. Like I said, I am spoiled now and if I had this first would probably rate a few points higher.
2011 vintage tasted in 2019. Bottle stored at refrigerator temperature for 8 years. Jet black. Brown head that dissipates after a minute or two. Complex dried fruit and oak aroma that is almost wine-like. Full body. More dried fruit on the palate with roasted malt dryness and bitterness as a counterpoint. Hint of wood tannins from the barrels but quite mellow overall at this point. Roasted malt lingers on the finish. Worth the wait!
this is a great stout, especially for me as i am not a fan of caffein, balanced and not overlly swert, dark and just short of oily, hints of cedar in the nose
Pours jet black with a nice tan colored head. Aroma of yeast and wood. Taste is slightly sweet, with notes of chocolate, malts, whiskey, and yeast. This is a good barrel aged imperial stout. Thumbs up.
The aroma is some figs and licorice, a little smoky. Pours almost black with tan head, mostly diminishing and good lacing. The taste is a medium bitter/light sweet. The body is medium/full, the texture creamy, the carbonation lively and the finish long. Very Good!! Has a pretty strong flavor, I cant pinpoint but is somewhat bitter, throwing me off on how I feel about this beer, not sure if that is a good flavor or it went downhill aging for two years.
Black colour, small tan head.
Aroma: roasted malt, liquorice, chocolate, cacao, whisky, oak.
Taste: whisky, oak, chocolate, roasted malt. Crisp body, champagne feel.
On bottle.
Pours black with little to no foam.
Scent: Chocolate, vanilla.
Taste: Chocolate, bourbon, round.
Texture: Medium co2, medium creamynot bad.
Pours thick black with a two finger, light tan head. Aroma is roast and molasses. Taste is candy sugar, moving to tart cherry and roast. Finish is tart roast.
Black with a brown head - Good dark malt aroma - Malt body wiht some dark fruity notes with some bitterness - The malt goes into the finish - This was real good
Had bottle aged for a year, and on tap at 2SP. Dark as night, smallish head. Aroma of mild bourbon and chocolate. Wood/oak dominates the flavor with mild cocoa notes and a bourbon bite finish. Better as it warms. Nice.
Sample from the bottle at Kangasalan Kasarmi. Tanks to olio! Vintage 2012? Color is dark brown with very small slightly brownish head. Aromas and flavors: Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, dryness, some distant hints of whiskey and roasted malts.
Beautiful black liquid pours from a equally beautiful 75cl bottle. White greyish head.
Coffee, sweetness of milk chocolate, biscuits and subtle vanilla on the nose. It’s well balanced and missing the usual bitterness of a stout.
The taste is much of the same. The balance is what strikes me the most, 10.5% of ABV adds body without the feel of alcohol.
Very very good
Black with thin tan head
Aroma is malty and bourbony
Flava is rich malt notes of bourbon and butter/vanilla
Feels medium and silky smooth with little fizz
Finishes mildly tangy woody and vanilla notes
750 ml from Whole Foods Brooklynnaged 3 years. Caged and corked. Tastes of chocolate fudge with a bit of cola carbination. Nice hint of bourbon barrel on the end. Not overwhelmingly boozy. Great!
Q4 2017 version. Pours jet black with a thin head and mild carbonation. Smells of sour fruit sweets and not much else. Good palate, some substance to it. Taste is of mixed fruits with an earthy finish. Good, but not perfect.
Unaged Q4 2017 vintage.
Pours black with a dissipating, foamy light-tan head.
Nose is a bag of Haribo tangfastics, light balsamic, a little Amontillado sherry.
Palate is chewy and incredibly smooth.
Taste is tangfastics again, drying oak, creamy bourbon, brown bread.
Get this to age!
2012 vintage. From a 750ml brown bottle at RBAG '18. It took me way to long to rate this one. Black with a thin light brown foam on top. Nose - bourbon, brown sugar, dark malts, roasty and chocolate. Taste - rich dark malts, roasted malts bourbon. Has a big roasty finish and lighter alcohol notes. This beer has aged amazingly well.
Bottle, pours black with a fine tan crema and aromas of vanilla, chocolate, alcohol and liquorice. Rich and dry-sweet, woody vanilla, sweet winey notes, burnt milk chocolate and a roasty sweet finish.
Pours dark brown with some brownish foam on top. Nose is dry and roasted, light sourness there also. Tastes dry, chocolate roast, super light acidity but overall dry. Very classical take on the style, you can't help but to respect that.
Thanks Gregg for sharing the 2015 bottle! Poured into a taster showing pitch black with no head.
The nose shows moderately intense notes of bourbon and smoke.
The palate is medium bodied and fully carbonated. Moderately intense bourbon with balanced notes of roasted malt. Slick and oily with smokiness throughout.
0,2 litre taster at Håndverksøl festival. Black with brown head. Malts , hops and Chocolate.
0.1 from Bottle at Rindermarkthalle (2€, budget!) - pitch black color, almost no head. chocolate, coffee, dark malts, bourbon. bitter, medium sweet. incredible intense. nice.
Bottle at Cafe Sara, april 1st 2017. Black body with a tanned head Aroma is roasted with bourbon, sweet chocolate, vanilla. Taste is quite thin, boozy, mild roasted with a nutty finish. Great aroma from this beer, if only the taste and finish could deliver it could have been a great beer.
750 ml bottle from Whole Foods Market - Indianapolis (on 86th). Black appearance with a smooth tan head. Aroma of chocolate malt, toasted oak, mild coffee, light roast and hints of oaky bourbon. Similar flavor, rich, dark and complex with moderate sweetness and lingering bourbon barrel complexities. Medium to full body with soft carbonation and a lingering finish. Nice.
Nice colour, fine creamy foam. Coffee, chocolate, liqorice. Distinct vanilla flavour from bourbon barrel
Sample at Belgium Chimipalooza. Aroma is big on chocolate, coffee and coconut from the barrel. Sweet, boozy, dark roast, hints of vanilla, good stuff.
Not great. Needed more body.