What Are Your Top 5 RIS?

De Molen Rasputin
De Molen Hel & Verdomenis
Jester King Heavy Metal
Imperial Stout Trooper
GD Yeti

 

Favorite new beer of the year. By far.

 

If you gotta ask . . . . .

 

Odin's Tipple
Dark Horse Plead the 5th
Hoppin Frog BORIS the Crusher
Stone RIS
Bells Expedition

 

Not exactly in this order:
Bells Expedition
Firestone Walker Parabola
Avery Mephistopheles
Abyss
Yeti

Honorable mentions - Stone, Ten Fidy, Siberian Night, Old Rasputin

 

These aren't all technically RIS and there are 9 instead of 5 but since imperial stouts are my absolute favorite style this is actually a pretty good cut down list for me lol

Firestone Walker Parabola
Evil Twin Imperial Biscotti Break (not RIS)
Squatters Outer Darkness
Avery Mephistopheles (American stout)
Lost Abbey Serpent's Stout
Oskar Blues Ten Fidy
North Coast Old Rasputin
Bell's Expedition (also not Russian, I don't think)
Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel (+ Cognac variety)

Some of the others I'm not sure if their considered Russian Imperial (like Ten Fidy, Serpent and Weasel). I hope to add Black Tuesday to this list soon when I pick mine up in about 21 days.

 

Hunahpu's
BCBS Coffee/BCBS
Parabola
Stone
Old Rasputin
BONUS: FiftyFifty Eclipse

 

Of the ones I've had, in no particular order:
BORIS
Old Rasputin
Parabola
Founders
Plead the 5th

Honorable Mention: Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout, still darn good and the one that got me hooked on RIS.

 

Well in no particular order, my top 5 would be ....

Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
Bell's Expedition Stout
Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti
Cigar City Marshal Zhukov's
Hoppin' Frog BA Boris

 

Great Lakes Blackout Stout
Old Rasputin
Siberian Night
Expedition Stout
Stone's RIS
these are also high on the hog;
Old Heathen
Cellar Rats' Black Rat
Yeti

 

Baller Stout
Founders's
BCBS
Dark Lord
Darkness

 

Stone IRS
Founders RIS
Great Divide Yeti
Brooklyn BCS
Port Santa's Little Helper

 

1. Barclay Perkins Russian Imperial Stout Coronation Bottling 1953
2. Barclay Perkins Russian Imperial Stout 1950
3. Barclay Perkins Russian Imperial Stout Vintage Bottling 1947
4. Barclay Perkins Russian Imperial Stout Royal Silver Jubilee 1935
5. Barclay Perkins Russian Imperial Stout Victory Bottling 1946

 

Founders Imperial Stout
Stone Espresso IRS
Parabola
Storm King
Iron Hill Brewing Russian Imperial Stout (regualr and Cherry Vanilla version) (Sorry for the hyper-local recommendation, though bottles are available if anyone is interested)

 

MZ
Ten Fidy
Any Yeti
ST Chocklat
Old Raspy

Mine probably change all the time.....at least the order ha!

 

1. BA Surly Darkness 2006
2. BBA Vanilla Bean Darklord
3. Portsmouth Kate the Great
4. Old Rasputin XII
5. Black Albert

Cheers!

 

RIS:
Founders IS
Bell's Expedition
Plead the 5th
Speedway
Ten Fidy

BA RIS:
KBS (especially Devil's Cut)
CBS
BB Pt5
BCBS
Black Note

 

When I think RIS, I think of the more traditional imperial stouts. No chocolate, coffee, vanilla, barrel aging, etc.

In order:
Marshal Zhukov
Ten Fidy
Black Albert
Yeti
Expedition
Old Rasputin
Stone IRS

Yeah, I did 7. Whatever.

 

For "normal" ones I'll go with:

• Stone RIS
• Czar
• Yeti (any except Espresso, which I don't like as much)
• BORIS
• Expedition

For barrel aged I'll add:

• Bull & Bush Legend of the Liquid Brain
• Parabola
• AC Golden Cyayt
• Bourbon County
• Dragon's Milk (drinkability > all of the others)

 

Founders Imperial Stout
Goose Island Night Stalker
Dark Horse Plead the 5th
Victory Storm King
Green Flash Double Stout

Didn't realize this was an old post, so this is my second entry in this thread. Sorry about that, but the two I mentioned before, ST Chokolat and Speedway Stout, are still right there with the above mentioned.