Drink of the Week: The Bruery Black Tuesday Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout

Imbibe Magazine | 05.12.2025 21:55
Back in the early aughts, the craft beer boom was just gearing up with microbreweries enticing a new audience with inventive brews. The Bruery—founded in Placentia, California, in 2008 by law student turned home brewer Patrick Rue—introduced provocative flavors to the medium. Think: a molé poblano chile beer and a durian Berliner Weisse. But Rue’s decadent bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout, called Black Tuesday, was the game changer.