Bottle Logic Brewing – Dark Forces

Rye Monster Stout Aged Two Years in Rare Bourbon Barrels • 17.3% ABV • From the shadowed depths of experimentation comes a creation so immense, it defies the light.

Dark Forces is the high-octane evolution of Darkstar November, a Bourbon Barrel-Aged Rye & Molasses Monster Stout that pushes brewing to its very limits. Sugar-fed with 3,000 pounds of dextrose to stoke the fermentation inferno, this 17.3% ABV leviathan is both a tribute and a challenge—a force to be reckoned with.

Originally conjured for last year’s DSN TEN celebration, this stout refused to be rushed. For two full years it grew darker and deadlier, leeching power from a series of legendary bourbon casks—Eagle Rare, Heaven Hill, Buffalo Trace, and Woody Creek. Now, the time has finally come to summon it into the world.

Darkness descends with each sip: a flood of baking spice, rich dried fruits, velvety chocolate, and the haunting echoes of oak and leather. Its fiery exhale brands itself into your senses, leaving an intense warmth in your chest that lingers like a warning: the darkness is here, and it is unyielding.