Favorite Non-Adjunct BA Stouts

You named one in Uncle Jacob's. My favorite semi-local is BA Dark Apparition from Jackie O's.

As far as readily available and out-performing price point...it is hard (impossible) to beat Boulevard Whiskey Barrel Stout.

 

First and foremost Parabola, and, since you're in CA, Smog City Infinite Wishes.

 

Central Waters Brewers Reserve Bourbon Barrel Stout for out-performing its price point.

@floyd_pugman, you mentioned pastry, sweet, etc.,... but since you also said "straight stouts" I assume you are also excluding any flavored stout, correct?

 

SR-71 is tops. Close 2nd is Carpathian. Then you've got Rare '15 and a few others but those 3 are memorable.

 

Old Hickory Event Horizon, theres harder to get and more expensive options, but it’s as good as a stout gets.

 

There's three that sit at the top for me.

• Appervation
• A Night To End All Dawns
• Rare DOS 1

I'd probably put them in this order if I was forced, but they're all first class and delicious

 

Anchorage Darkest Hour. There are several variations, including some with additional ingredients such as coffee, but the brandy barrel aged version with no other flavorings added is the one of the best beers I have ever had.

Also, various offerings from Clown Shoes. They do stout spirit barrel aging very nicely.

 

Somewhat attainable, my top tier (in no particular order:
BCBS
BA Ten Fidy
Parabola
Central Waters Brewers Reserve Imperial Stout
BA Expedition Stout

More difficult to obtain tier (no particular order):
Beer: Barrel: Time batch 2
Assassin ‘14, ‘19
Maman ‘17
Black Magick Willett (silver wax), Buffalo Trace b2 (blue wax)
BCBS ‘13, ‘14

 

Ten fidy has oats, it's out. I'm going BA Framminghammer.

 

Just a plea for the correct use of the word "adjunct", a lot of the time it is used simply to describe added ingredients. An adjunct originally meant a source of sugar which used the enzymes in malt to unlock. More loosely it has sometimes been used to describe fermentable non malt ingredients, but to describe all non malt ingredients as adjuncts degrades the word.
Of course the main culprit is brewing literature assembled by cut and paste from existing work. This means that errors and omissions perpetuate.

 

In no particular order.
Crystal Lake Brewing Boathouse Reserve Rye BA Stout.
Wild Onions' Drago.
On par with the best of them!

 

My last BA Ten Fidy was a soy bomb, ugh just the most vile concoction ever. I’ve had it before and it’s been great, but I can’t even look at the stuff right now. The smell alone would make me barf.

 

I've always found Barrel Aged Ten Fidy to be one of the better barrel aged stouts, it's one of the few where the bourbon complements the beer and not the other way around. BA Old Rasputin and Yeti gets an honorable mention

 

Marshall Zhukov is great as well as its ba versions

A few others...
Maman
BBT
Sleeping forever..especially the Kentucky barrel one

 

Adjuncts vs. add-junks.

 

@floyd_pugman, I will 3rd or 4th Parabola as an excellent BA Stout, also you should be able to find the various BA Old Rasputin iterations around and they are quite excellent. I would also look out for Colossal from Fall River brewing. It's not BA but it is an excellent imperial that packs a lot of roasty flavor (I hope they give it some barrel treatment one of these days).
Beyond that I was pleasantly surprised at how worthy of the esteem BCBS is and is a great value for that class of beer in my mind.