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2023 Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

$14.99 for the 12oz bottle six-pack
Imperial Stout

It’s that time of year again, time for another release of the Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout, one of craft beer’s legendary brews, easily Brooklyn’s most anticipated release, and one of the first Imperial Stouts in the country. It’s so early in things that people weren’t really making stouts with chocolate yet. So Brooklyn had no problem calling their brew “the Black Chocolate Stout,” even though there’s no chocolate in it. It just refers to its dark, bitter flavor. Brooklyn Brewmaster Garrett Oliver, who invented the recipe, surmises that its initial run dwarfed the sales for imperial stouts in all the northeast. (!) It’s origin is one of craft beer’s great job audition stories.

In 1994, Oliver was looking to leave the Manhattan Brewing Company after the owner dropped the employees’ health insurance without telling them. (Let’s just sit with that for a moment … dropped people’s health insurance — figured they could just find out when they would, you know, need it … and not have it.) Brooklyn co-founder, Steve Hildy said why didn’t Oliver come to brew for them. So, on July 4th, Oliver brewed a version of the Black Chocolate Stout, took it to Brooklyn, and was hired!

To us, the Brooklyn Black Chocolate stout has a fruitiness up front that quickly fades into a coffee-like roastiness giving you a real bite on the finish. This stout is one of those beers that’s set up to age. If you can control yourself, see what it tastes like in one or two years.

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