Good Russian Imperial Stouts

i am sorry you live in bumblefuck. drive into pittsburgh.

 

There are a ton of them.

Stone Russian Imperial
Oskar Blues Ten Fidy
North Coast Old Rasputin
Victory Storm King
Great Divide Yeti and all of it's variants

Those are widespread and readily available. Should be easy to acquire if you find a decent store.

 

I don't know what part of Pa you live in, but currently in Erie you can find....BBCS, FIS, Storm King, Troegs Java, ST Choklat, ST Oat, Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout, Big Black Voodoo Daddy, Bell's Double Cream, Yeti, Oak Aged Yeti, Siberian Night, among others.

 

I wish we had Bourbon County on the shelves here. Is that a generalization or do you actually still have BCBS on the shelves in NH?

 

Heresy by Weyerbacher just came out. Pick up some of that since you're in PA. Pretty cheap for a BA stout.

 

Just had my first Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout. Held up with Stone IRS and just a shade under Old Raspy. Yum.

 

I live in PA, too and I can't telll you how much I hate the liquor "laws" here. Bunch of union thugs, commie pinko jerks control our state and therefore, quality anything is hard to acquire here.

But it shouldn't be hard to get at least Storm King and Old Rasputin here, which are excellent Imperial Stouts.

 

We never have Bourbon County on shelves here unfortunately...

 

Ten Fidy...find it.

 

never had anything from founders that wasn't top shelf... have yet to try their RIS... maybe tomorrow... by the way cool St. Bernard...

 

Use the Beerfly function on the main page of this site to find a decent bottle shop around you. I'm not familiar with your area and you may be looking in the wrong places or just don't have great shops in your area. If its the latter, then you will have to travel a bit. PA DOES get great distro so just keep looking. Good luck and here's the link.
http://beeradvocate.com/beerfly/

 

Founders RIS is very very good. Cheers.

 

I had Marshall Zhukov's Imperial Stout from Cigar City tonight and it was unbelievable. Right up there with Parabola to me, but in a completely different way

 

I wish we had GI BCBS on shelves here...I'd give up the Abyss quickly...

Cheers!

 

Old Rasputin is top notch IMO as others have also said.

 

As a new one,give Steven's Point Whole Hog Imp Stout a try,nice chocolate overtones and a cascade hop aftertaste.

 

Old Heathen from Weyerbacher is a very solid RIS & it's brewed year round in Pennsylvania. Seriously, it can't be too hard to find.

 

Just about every single one of the beers mentioned so far, except Goose Island, are available in PA.

 

Got a few bottles of Lindley Park and Event Horizon if you're interested for a trade...

 

Hmm. Year round? Old Rasputin (Nice slight cherry taste), Samuel Smiths Imperial Stout (Not as big as most ris's u r used to since it's only 7%abv, but still great dark fruit taste).