Your Top 5 Imperial Stouts?

1. Bell's Expedition Stout
2. Founder's Imperial
3. Squatters Outer Darkness
4. Ten Fidy
5. Old Rasputin

 

Black Note
Wake and Bake
System of a Stout
Parabola
Old Rasputin

 

I didn't include BA stouts in the first list:

1. Founder's Imperial
2. Hoppin' Frog DORIS
   
3. Oskar Blues Ten Fiddy
4. Sierra Nevada Narwhal
5. Stone IRS

But if BA stouts were included, the would sweep the top 5. We would start to see non-ba stouts much further down the list. Maybe I have a season pass to the hype train? Maybe I just really like beer that tastes a bit like whiskey? Regardless:

1. Surly Darkness
2. Hoppin' Frog BORIS Van Wink
   
3. Founders KBS
4. Deschutes Abyss
5. Goose Island BCBS

I am now tempted to list all the amazing stouts I have tried that these selections narrowly edged out.

 

So many great ones, but my personal favorites include:

1. Founders IS
2. BORIS
3. Old Raspy
4. Great Lakes Blackout
5. Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout

Can't leave the specials out:
1. Cascade Diesel
2. Block 15 Super Nebula
3. FiftyFifty Eclipse 4 Roses
4. BCBS (remember when this wasn't "special"?)
5. '07 Abyss

 

1 Bourbon County (any)
2 Abyss
3 Espresso Oak Yeti
4 Surly Darkness
5 Midnight Sun Sloth
6 Peche Mortel
7 Expedition
8 Stone IRS
9 Speedway
10 Berzerker

 

No specific order:

Allagash Black
Yeti
NC Old Rasputin
Ten Fidy
Bear Republic Big Black Bear Stout

Love belgian stouts and allagash and yeti stick out to me. The whole yeti series is pretty spot on so I just put Yeti to simplify and not overcrowd my favorite list with just different variations of it.

 

Odin's should be way more sought after than it is!

 

Here's a new stout thread:
Best stout by price point, regardless of style(imperial, Russian Imperial, coffee, chocolate, breakfast, who GAF, etc.).
I have access to Lagunitas Imperial Stout for sub $5 a bomber. It never lets me down, is delicious, and always surprises me how much punch it packs in the flavor department for how much I pay for it. Another stellar offering from Lagunitas!

 

Darkness
Darklord
Plead the 5th
Founders Imperial Stout
Old Rasputin

 

1. KBS
2. Hoppin Frog - BBA B.O.R.I.S.
3. Founders Imperial Stout
4. Stone - IRS
5. Goose island - BCBS
6. FFF - Dark Lord
7. Founders Breakfast Stout
8. Hunahpu's
9. Green Flash Double Stout
10. narwhal

But honestly there are probably 30 more deserving of the list. I've had a lot of excellent stouts.

 

A few others I enjoy are Hoppin Frog Boris, really anything Boris, Ten Fidy, and Great Divide's oatmeal yeti was stubbing like most yeti's. fifty fifty total eclipse are solid as well. I've had about every barrel available

 

Excluding whales and BA like Founders CBS, the fantastic Nantahala Brewing Trail Magic Ale #4: Bourbon Barrel Aged Russian Imperial Stout and similar Bells Black Note Stout (no order):

North Coast Old Rasputin (best buy?)
Ten Fidy
Big Bear Black Stout
Péché Mortel
B.O.R.I.S. The Crusher

 

no order
bells expedition
ten fiddy
sam smiths
founders imperial
stone/yeti toss up

 

Well the high west bottling wasnt all that impressive compared to the others, but hey High West bourbon doesn't come close to actual Kentucky bourbon of any kind either, but it was still pretty decent. Those Total Eclipse offerings are expensive, but all of them were solid

 

Founders IS
Courage
Stone IRS
Great Lakes Blackout Stout
AleSmith Speedway

Honorable Mention: Narwhal

 

Last fall? eh, these were on the liquor store shelf when I picked them up yesterday. Here's hoping against light-striking...

p.s. what do some have against it?

 

1) Ten FIDY
2) Founders RIS
3) Old Rasputin
4) Samuel Smith RIS
5) Stone RIS

 

I love how ten fidy is on just about everybody's list. My favorite non-BA stout!​

 

Sssshhhhhhhhhhhh.... No it shouldn't

 

Tough to pick only 5...
in no particular order

Samuel Smiths Imperial Stout
Foothills Sexual Chocolate
Espresso Yeti
Founders Imperial Stout
Black Albert

HM: Ten Fidy