Brooklyn Black OPS:
Yes, Bruisin’ Ales will be getting some Brooklyn Black OPS—a 10.0% abv stout aged in Woodford Reserve barrels. It will be rare (1,000 cases total nationwide) and our wishful thinking hopes the beer gods will grace us with two to three cases (being generous). Beernews.org has a good write-up about it—including the hilarious back label goodness below.

“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 oat notes. They say there are only 1,000 cases. We have no idea what they’re talking about.”

De Struise Black Albert
Yes, Bruisin’ Ales will be getting some Black Albert. Yes, it’s late. As the fifth-hand story goes, kegs were accidentally shipped to the States, rather than bottles on the first run, but De Struise is honoring the order and still shipping bottles, though a little later than planned. Personally, we’re happy to have this arrive “sometime during the holiday season.”

**As with all things rare, we post here on the blog as they arrive. We will not take advance orders or “holds” and you will not find them on the shelf, i.e. Theobroma. You must ask us for these beers specifically.**