Creating a bucket list for Imperial Stout

The regular Siberian night is also outstanding, but the BA is definitely a must try. I've also got to add black note. Just had my first and loved it.

 

I'm a bit late to this thread, but I love stouts so I wanted to throw in my two cents:

• Dark Lord, plus if you can get any variant that's a great baseline comparison
  
• Bourbon County, especially Vanilla and Prop
• Darkness
• Bomb!, same advice as dark lord, tons of variants
• Abraxas/Sump from Perennial (Sump Adola is the best coffee beer I have ever had)
  
• Beer Geek Brunch Weasel
• Parabola
• Abyss
• Hunahpu

If you ever want to trade there are some great local options around me as well: Vlad series from Hailstorm, Liquid Spiritual Delight series from 2nd Shift, Dosvidanya/Privyet/etc from Destihl. Plus I have a bunch of Dark Lord and Bourbon County in the cellar.

 

I'd have to add Epics Big Bad Baptist. They are very alcohol and coffee forward...Which make my mouth happy. They had 2 varients last year, Big Bad Baptista and Double Barrell Baptist all of which were excellent

 

Having lived in Kentucky for four years, I would highly recommend west sixth snake cake, available now in crowlers at the brewery and can probably trade for it. It's a vanilla chocolate BBA stout that is out of this world.

Another would be Baba Yaga from ethereal. That beer is as close to bcbs in terms of feel I have had from a BBA stout.

Everyone else hit the heavy hitters though. Love this list. Only add that you can get regionally that I will recommend is Sunday morning stout by weyerbacher. Cheap, but a fantastic coffee stout that with a couple months, is great!

 

You are going to have to update whatever list you come up with every November after the release of BCBS variants. This I can promise you.

 

If Black Tuesday is your thing check out De Struise Double Black.

 

BBB ages pretty well too. I was blown away by Double Barrel Baptist...way better than I imagined. I immediately traded for another after I had it.

 

Jackie O's has some great stuff too. Oro Negro, Champion Ground, Dark Apparition. They never get any love on here but I've had some world class stouts from them (I live 20 minutes from the brewery too)

 

just about any Speedway Stout variant is worth trying and some are even worth hoarding