Beer Review: Brooklyn Brewery Black Ops Barrel Aged Stout Four Roses Edition 2025 Review

Brooklyn Brewing in New York state has brought to the table their “Black Ops” Stout. The marketing materials explain the beer thusly, “We can neither confirm nor deny its existence. However, if it did exist, it would be a robust stout originally concocted by the Brooklyn brewing team under the cover of secrecy and hidden from everyone else at the brewery. Supposedly this vintage of Black Ops is aged for months in Four Roses Small Batch Bourbon barrels. Such a beer would combine big chocolate and coffee notes with a rich underpinning of vanilla-like oak. Is Black Ops real? We can’t say. But we’ll think you’ll love it.”

I’m not positive what else there is to say on this. It’s a barrel aged stout, which should have your mouth watering. From their website, “Brooklyn Brewing started with a dream to return brewing to Brooklyn, once a powerhouse of American beer production. Today our beers travel to more than half the United States and over thirty countries. Our James Beard Award-winning Brewmaster Garrett Oliver and his team brew everything from classic styles to bold experiments and collaborate with brewers, innovators and artists from around the globe. We’ve met wonderful people in remarkable places, and we can’t wait to show everyone what’s next.”