Tears of my Enemies Imperial Milk Stout Aged in Bourbon Barrels

Review Date 6/2/2025  By John Staradumsky

  Style: Imperial Stout   Brewery: Monday Night   Country: USA   State: Georgia   $ Per OZ: $.31   ABV: 9.3%

So, I was at the Monday Night Garage brewery location, and I bought some beer. You can read more about my visit here, should you so desire. It was my birthday, and I had been on a pub crawl, and I drank beer at the brewery and bought some to take home, you see. Included in the take-home category was a 4-pack of Tears of My Enemies Imperial Milk Stout Aged in Bourbon Barrels.

The name of the beer immediately grabbed my attention. Tears of Your Enemies? That sounds like a beer a Klingon or Conan the Barbarian would really enjoy. While I am neither a Klingon nor a barbarian myself, I thought I might enjoy it, too. Monday Night says about the beer on their website:

There is nothing more sumptuous than the misfortune of your enemies. That dark and oh so sweet taste of revenge takes over as it hits your lips, marching upon your tongue like an army towards certain victory. Aged for ten months in bourbon barrels, notes of toffee, caramel, and charred wood resonate on the palate. Cacao nibs, vanilla, and coffee enhance the tears of your enemies, without a doubt, the most delicious thing you’ve ever tasted.

Monday Night Tears of My Enemies Imperial Milk Stout Aged in Bourbon Barrels has an alcohol content of 9.3% by volume and I paid $20 for my 4 pint cans. My cans are stamped BEST BY 03/12/26, and I am assuming they were canned on 3/12/25. Just in time for me to buy them! I drank the can I am reviewing on Marcg 17^th, I’m just a bit late posting my full review. If you are wondering about the photo with the T-Shirt, look closely and you will see a cooler behind it. That is from the company shop in the brewery and was holding my 4-pack along with other assorted goodies.

Monday Night Tears of My Enemies Imperial Milk Stout Aged in Bourbon Barrels pours to a jet-black color with a moderate head of creamy tan foam and a nose of smooth milk chocolate and boozy bourbon. Taking a sop, the beer is full in body, luxuriant as it rolls over the tongue. It’s Hershey bar smooth and milk chocolaty if a Hershey bar were soaked in booze in its wrapper. The vanilla is the lightest element, and the coffee is a little more apparent, but it’s the cocoa and booze that steal the show. The beer is a tad woody and earthy from the barrel aging, and in the finish, the booze emerges and warms the beer.

A delightful sipper with intense boozy bourbon notes permeating. I think it could go far longer than a year on the aging. I might save a can and find out, but this beer is so darned good that won’t be easy.

 Glad I tried it?  T