What Are Your Top 5 RIS?

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  1. seplo

    seplo Pundit (923) Sep 8, 2009 Connecticut

    I saw a thread earlier about your top 5 IPA/DIPA and it got me thinking that up here in the Northeast its getting cold and stout season is coming upon us. So what are your top 5 Russian Imperial Stouts?
     
  2. cubbyswans

    cubbyswans Zealot (623) Jun 10, 2008 Missouri

    Bell's Expedition
    Founders
    Goose Island BCBS
    Brooklyn Chocolate Stout
    So Tier Mokah
     
  3. AndyAvalanche

    AndyAvalanche Maven (1,380) Jun 16, 2008 Massachusetts
    Trader

    In somewhat this order.

    -Stone
    -Founders
    -Great Lakes Blackout
    -Plead the 5th
    -Imperial Stout Trooper

    -Gotta love Yeti, Old Rasputin, Ten Fidy, Rabid Duck.....too many to choose
     
  4. JoRado

    JoRado Initiate (0) Oct 26, 2010 Minnesota

    Surly Darkness
    Bells Black Note
    Founders RIS
    Deschutes The Abyss
    Goose Island BCBS

    This is of course out of the ones I've had and not all the great ones I have yet to try
     
  5. gatornation

    gatornation Grand High Pooh-Bah (9,502) Apr 18, 2007 Arizona
    Pooh-Bah Society Trader

    Abyss
    Darkness
    Worthy Adversary
    Dark truth
    Czar Jack
     
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  6. deadonhisfeet

    deadonhisfeet Pooh-Bah (2,419) Apr 23, 2011 Kentucky
    Pooh-Bah

    1. Founders Imperial Stout
    2. Stone Imperial Russian Stout
    3. Ten Fidy
    4. BORIS the Crusher
    5. Yeti
     
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  7. eawolff99

    eawolff99 Pooh-Bah (2,236) May 10, 2010 Minnesota
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    Based off my ratings:

    Non-BA
    SH IRS
    Founder's RIS
    KtG
    ORF
    Speedway

    BA
    Vanilla Brandy DL
    PvW DL
    Kaggen!
    CBS
    Damon / BA Speedway / KBS / Brandy Marshal Zhukov (non "5" tie)
     
  8. InebriatedJoker

    InebriatedJoker Initiate (0) Sep 16, 2010 Ohio

    BORIS
    Marshall Zhukov's
    TenFidy
    StoneIRS
    Founders Imperial Stout
     
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  9. yamar68

    yamar68 Initiate (0) Apr 1, 2011 Minnesota

    According to the stats:

    1.) BCBS Rare
    2.) Eclipse - Elijah Craig (12 year)
    3.) KBS
    4.) Big Bad Baptist
    5.) Barrel Aged Plead the 5th
     
  10. mattdbh

    mattdbh Initiate (0) Feb 21, 2009 California

    Deschutes The Abyss
    AleSmith Speedway Stout
    Stone RIS
    Port Old Viscosity
    Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel
     
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  11. LiquidCourage

    LiquidCourage Initiate (0) Nov 1, 2012 Rhode Island

    Speedway Stout
    Hel & Verdomenis
    Stone RIS
    KBS
    Siberian Night (factoring in value)
     
  12. BladeRunner

    BladeRunner Crusader (497) Apr 4, 2007 Illinois

    In no particular order.

    Oak Aged Yeti (It still holds up after all these years)
    Parabola
    Marshall Zhukov
    Dark Lord
    Hunahpu
     
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  13. immobilisme

    immobilisme Initiate (0) Nov 8, 2005 Illinois

    What are your top five RIS while taking a big dookie at work?
     
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  14. iflah45

    iflah45 Initiate (0) Jul 8, 2010 Massachusetts

    Non barrel aged:
    Kate the Great
    Hunahpu's
    Founder's Breakfast
    Stone
    Old Raspy

    Barrel aged:
    BCBS
    Abyss
    KBS
    BBPt5
    KDS
     
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  15. SFACRKnight

    SFACRKnight Grand Pooh-Bah (3,274) Jan 20, 2012 Colorado
    Pooh-Bah Society Trader

    BCBS
    Ten Fidy
    Uncle Jacobs
    Parabola
    Tweek
     
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  16. zac16125

    zac16125 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,358) Jan 26, 2010 South Carolina
    Pooh-Bah Society Trader

    Based on my ratings:
    Pegs Rare DOS
    BCBCS
    KBS
    The Abyss
    Hunahpu


    Based on my memory:
    Pegs Rare DOS
    BCBCS
    KBS
    Hunahpu
    Imperial Biscotti Break
     
  17. JulianB

    JulianB Initiate (0) Feb 1, 2012 South Carolina

    1. Deschutes The Abyss
    2. Firestone Walker Parabola
    3. Avery Mephistopheles
    4. Squatters Outer Darkness
    5. Alesmith Speedway

    HMs: Brooklyn Black Chocolate, Olde Hickory Event Horizon, Bell's Expedition, Clown Shoes Blaecorn Unidragon, Stone IRS

    I have several in my possession that I acquired recently and haven't gotten to try yet that I'm excited about, including Port Older Viscocity and Evil Twin Imperial Biscotti Break.
     
  18. cpjtr9559

    cpjtr9559 Initiate (0) Nov 30, 2007 New York

    no one said ivan the terrible??????????
     
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  19. Brandywine

    Brandywine Initiate (0) Aug 20, 2012 Washington

    Berserker
    Parabola
    World Wide Stout
    Serpent's Stout
    Ten Fidy
     
  20. MeMyselfNAles7

    MeMyselfNAles7 Initiate (0) Nov 13, 2009 Puerto Rico

    Here are mine
    Samuel Smith
    Old Rasputin
    Black Chocolate Stout
    Yeti
    Big Bear Black Stout
     
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