Your Top 5 Imperial Stouts?

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  1. DuckRabbit

    DuckRabbit Devotee (317) Sep 6, 2004 North Carolina

    This year's Rabid Duck Batch 1 (of 8) is in the mash tun right now!

    Paul Philippon
    The Duck-Rabbit Craft Brewery
    Farmville NC
     
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  2. WassailWilly

    WassailWilly Initiate (0) Sep 8, 2007 New York

    On draft amazing... from the bottle kind of lost something IMHO

    Hon. mention: Capt. Lawrence Frost Monster (really good for a first offering!)
     
  3. BlackNote

    BlackNote Initiate (0) Apr 5, 2013 Michigan

    Regular:
    FIS
    Ten FIDY
    GL Blackout Stout
    Pt5
    Ivan the Great

    Hon. mention: Latitude 42 Old Joe's XX Stout (local brewery) that is also in Templeton Rye barrels to be released this summer and next winter.

    BA/special:
    Uncle Jacob's
    BBPt5
    Parabola
    Schlafly BBIS
    Tri-City Dragon Slayer

    Hon. mention: Ivan the Terrible & Greenbush BA Dystopia
     
  4. Omonigan

    Omonigan Initiate (0) Dec 2, 2013 Georgia

    1. BCBS
    2. Ten Fidy
    3. Bell's Expedition
    4. Old Rasputin
    5. Terrapin Wake N Bake
     
  5. Holmes698

    Holmes698 Initiate (0) Mar 7, 2009 Pennsylvania

    Darkness
    Founders RIS
    Marshal Z
    Stone RIS
    Bells Expedition
     
  6. saburky

    saburky Initiate (0) Dec 10, 2011 Ohio

    1. Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout
    2. Old Rasputin
    3. Great Lakes Blackout Stout
    4. Northwind
    5. Hoppin' Frog Double Russian
     
  7. BigMike

    BigMike Pooh-Bah (2,334) May 8, 2008 Pennsylvania
    Pooh-Bah

    1) Black Albert
    2) Storm King
    3) Ten Fidy
    4) Parabola
    5) Founders Imperial

    Honorable mention: Stone Imperial Russian, Weyerbacher Old Heathen, Bell's Expedition
     
  8. kwakwhore

    kwakwhore Maven (1,413) Nov 1, 2004 North Carolina
    Trader

    Fantastic. Hope some of it stays in Eastern NC.
     
  9. RaggaD

    RaggaD Initiate (0) Jun 29, 2013 Florida

    Zhukov
    Ten Fidy
    Stone RIS

    After that it get's real close between a lot of other brews.

    BA is a whole different ballgame
     
  10. falcon1

    falcon1 Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2006 Ohio

    1) Cigar City Brewing Marshal Zhukov's Imperial Stout
    2) Midnight Sun Brewing Berserker Imperial Stout
    3) Courage Imperial Stout
    4) Three Floyds Dark Lord
    5) Surly Darkness
     
  11. ScaryEd

    ScaryEd Grand Pooh-Bah (3,793) Feb 19, 2012 New Hampshire
    Society Pooh-Bah

    Ten Fidy
    Parabola
    Founders Imperial Stout
    Siberian Night
    Storm King
     
  12. WesMantooth

    WesMantooth Grand Pooh-Bah (4,844) Jan 8, 2014 Ohio
    Pooh-Bah Trader

    Brooklyn BCS
    Founders IS
    Bells ES
    Hoppin Frog BORIS
    Great Dived Yeti

    Disclosure: have not had Darkness, Narwhal, Plead the 5th, Stone, Old Rasputin which are all on wish list
     
  13. JrBuck10

    JrBuck10 Initiate (0) Jan 15, 2014 Minnesota

    old Rasputin, surly Darkness, Ten fidy, Founders Imperial Stout, Stone Vanilla Bean
     
  14. 57md

    57md Grand Pooh-Bah (3,033) Aug 22, 2011 Pennsylvania
    Pooh-Bah

    TenFidy
    Port Santa's Little Helper
    Thirsty Dog Siberian Night
    Founders
    Avery Czar

    Honorable Mention: Stone
     
  15. Schwegler

    Schwegler Initiate (0) Aug 30, 2013 Nevada

    My first love of IRS Old Rasputin
     
  16. jamis

    jamis Initiate (0) Nov 30, 2008 Massachusetts

    Not counting barrel aged or other special varieties....

    1. Founders Imperial
    2. Founders Breakfast
    3. Evil Twin Imperial Biscotti Break
    4. Ten Fidy
    5. Speedway Stout

    Amazingly, I don't care for Stone's RIS, or Victory's Storm King much at all.
     
  17. jegross2

    jegross2 Initiate (0) Jan 3, 2010 Illinois

    Plead the fifth
    Darkness
    Zhukov
    Espresso yeti
    Founders imperial stout
     
  18. SawDog505

    SawDog505 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,922) Apr 9, 2010 New Hampshire
    Pooh-Bah

    1. Founder's Imperial Stout
    2. Hoppin Frog Doris
    3. Plead the 5th
    4.Yeti
    5. Smuttynose Imperial Stout
    Many other flavored stouts that are even better, but this list is special to my palate.
     
  19. Jay_Ulreich

    Jay_Ulreich Initiate (0) Jan 15, 2014 Indiana

    Bells Expedition
    North Coast Old Rasputin
    Sierra Nevada Narwhal
    Yeti
    Dark Horse Plead the Fifth
     
  20. SteelSaw

    SteelSaw Initiate (0) Nov 13, 2013 Indiana

    In no particular order.

    TenFIDY
    Old Rasputin
    Founders Imperial Stout
    B.O.R.I.S.
    Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout

    I could list others, but they are technically American Double/Imperial Stouts.
     
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