Best Stouts....and go!

Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout. It is traditional, balanced for the type, great tasting and readily available. My little deck outdoors feels like a pub every evening I have one.

 

That one had slipped my mind, Im gonna have to revisit that one today!! The best oatmeal stouts I've ever had

 

Easily my top 5 standard imperial stouts (non BBA, flavored, etc): Bells Expedition, North Coast Old Rasputin, Stone IRS, Founders IS, Ten Fidy

 

Their Oatmeal Stout is excellent, but the best smelling beer in the world is their Organic Chocolate Stout. In a blind smelling test nobody would guess it is a beer or anything other than pure cocoa. Taste is good but nowhere like the smell.

 

Boris The Crusher

 

Interesting...my first beer festival, I had Zonker Stout....fell in love. It's still my favorite...delicious.

 

Are we really 5 pages into this thread with no mention of Fundamental Observation?!?!? It's one of the few beers that actually lived up to the hype for me. I liked it more than Vanilla Rye, SR-71 and Assassin. Don't get me wrong, they are all phenomenal beers, but FO is ridiculously good.....and I almost don't want to mention it because I like the fact that it's under the radar right now but Leche Borracho is a phenomenal BA Mexican style stout.

Anyway, my top stouts would be:

Fundamental Observation
Double Barrel Mexican Cake
Leche Borracho
Assassin
SR-71
Vanilla Rye
Tokyo Rising Sun
Snowed In
Momi Hiwa (porter)

and as far as easily obtainable stout (meaning you don't have to trade an arm and a leg to land these)

Last Rites
BCBS
Big Bad Baptist
Foolery
BA Ginger Bread Stout
Grey Monday
Chocolate Rain
Melange 3
Black Tokyo Horizon
BA Chocwork Orange (porter)
Wide Awake, it's morning (porter)
Abraxas
Hunaphu
Pugachevs Cobra
Rare Dos
BA Darkness
BBA Plead the 5th
No Rules (porter)

 

Regular BORIS, BORIS Reserve, or Barrel Aged BORIS?

 

So I could say FBS is my favorite porter.

 

There ya go! Consistently rated the best beer from Wyoming. I wonder if that will change now that Melvin is around and brewing awesome hop forward beers...

 

I have two.

Ballast Point The Commodore

Guinness Foreign Extra

 

I love them all !! I have a case of KBS, 16 Breakfast stouts, 4 different Yeti's, 1 4 pack of Siberian Nights, 1 Big Bad Baptist, a couple Of Evil Twin Jesus variants, 5 Bourbon County regulars, 1 Mephisto, and assorted high test Averies in my basement. My wallet thinks my hand is crazy. Oh..... if you are a stout fan try Labyrinth and some Jacks Abbey porters. They are great. The Labyrinth is a real sleeper. Super delicious. Today is day 2 of my vacations and it is going to be Framinghammer vanilla porter and Evil Twin Even More Jesus while I smoke the chicken thighs. Then it is nap time

 

Regular Boris because it's always available where I lived in Ohio, was reasonably priced, delicious, and ready to drink regardless of it's age. In my opinion it was the best local year around stout available in NE Ohio.

 

I like their stouts, but not a bomber fan, particularly high ABV. I can see companies putting out special, one-off, or trial runs in bomber - but once it catches on then why not sell it in 12oz?

 

I agree. It would be nice to be able to get a four or six pack.

 

I don't know what that is but if it says stout on the bottle then it is a porter, albeit a slightly thick one, perhaps.

 

lot of excellent ones ... for the best barrel aged I gotta say Mocha Wednesday, KBS & The Abyss. The best non barrel aged stout Ive tried is Lawson's Fayston Coffee stout. honorable mention to Dusk trill Dawn, Hawaiian speedway stout, BCBS, and Bomb! also still have a bottle of Dark Lord that I need to try.