Bottle Logic Brewing is putting Darkstar November 2026 on sale today at its Anaheim tasting room. The Full Pint, reprinting the brewery’s own release on Nov. 13, says tasting-room bottle sales start Saturday, Nov. 14, at 11:45 a.m. at 1072 N. Armando St. Direct-to-consumer online sales are promised for “next week,” with no date attached, so we are not picking one.
This year’s Darkstar November is a bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout with rye and molasses. It is bottled at 13.4% ABV and priced at $27.95 for a 500 ml bottle, according to that same brewery copy. The label on the 2026 bottles spells the strength as 13.40% alcohol by volume, which matches the release. We confirmed the tasting-room address on Bottle Logic’s own site: 1072 N. Armando St., Anaheim, CA 92806. The brewery also lists a Honda Center concession at 2695 E. Katella Ave.; that is a separate pour, not the bottle release.
What Darkstar November tastes like, according to Bottle Logic
Those tasting notes belong to the brewery, not to a review. Bottle Logic tells drinkers to expect “rich molasses sweetness, warming rye spice, velvety vanilla, and layers of bourbon-soaked chocolate oak” in this year’s Darkstar November. We are passing that description along as the brewery wrote it, not as a tasting we did ourselves.
Darkstar November has been Bottle Logic’s November barrel-aged stout tradition for years, part of the Stasis Project line the brewery is known for. In late September we covered the announcement that Bottle Logic is joining The Bruery and Offshoot Beer Co. in The Bruery Group, a deal then expected to close later this year, with the Anaheim tasting room slated to stay open. Nothing in today’s release says this batch will land on The Bruery’s shipping platform, and “next week” is still the only public timing for online sales.
If you are already following Orange County’s barrel-aged calendar, The Bruery has had its own stout moment this month, including the November releases that arrived on Nov. 3 and the 15.1% Lumen Noctis Black Tuesday blend. Those are separate beers from a neighboring brewery, not add-ons to today’s Darkstar November drop.
Locals get the first shot this morning at the Armando Street tasting room. The 11:45 a.m. start comes from the brewery’s release, so it is worth arriving on that time rather than assuming a noon open. Everyone else will have to wait until Bottle Logic names an online date, or watch the shop next week the way the brewery asked. We will update this story if a firm e-commerce day is posted.
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