Your Top 5 Imperial Stouts?

Standard IS?
1) Zhukov
2) Mephistopheles
3) Pt5
4) Blackout
5) Expedition

NOw BA and treatments:
1) Hoppe dup Johnnie
2) 13 BASC
3) Huna
4) 09 BCBS
5) 09 BA BORIS

 

As far as standard issue and un-tweaked:

1. Founders - sublime
2. Old Rasputin - on-point
3. Sam Smith - not to be overlooked
4. Courage - the original?
5. Yeti and Stone both have high-quality takes on the style

If you include barrel-aged ales, Parabola's gonna be the top dog... 'specially after dat 2013

 

1. Dark Horse Plead The 5th Imperial Stout
2. B.O.R.I.S. The Crusher Oatmeal-Imperial Stout
3. Bourbon County Brand Stout
4. HaandBryggeriet Odin's Tipple
5. Stone Imperial Stout

 

Beermail me. I'll see if I can hook you up when it comes out. I think the Baltic Porter is around now.

 

Bells Expedition
Founders KBS
BCBCS
Founders Breakfast
Evil Twin Yin

list changes daily...

 

Based on my reviews:

1) Great Lakes BA Blackout Stout
2) Hoppin' Frog BORIS
3) Stone Espresso IRS
4) FW Parabola
5) Foothills BA Sexual Chocolate

 

1. Bourbon County
2. Parabola
3. Evil Twin Even More Jesus
4. Uncle Jacobs Stout
5. Stone IRS

 

Stone IRS
Great Divide Espresso Yeti
Old Rasputin
Sixpoint 3Bean
Ballast Point Sea Monster

 

Need to move all of them down one and add Speedway Stout as #1. and Founders IS needs to be up there somewhere. DFH World Wide Stout (if it fits or not) is the one of the best I have ever had

 

From the ones I have had
1 Goose Island Bourbon County Vanilla
2 Hangar 24 Barrel Roll Pugachev's Cobra
3 Firestone Walker Parabola
4 Founders CBS
5 Avery Uncle Jacobs Stout.

Notables that I could switch out anytime. Chocolate Rain, Black Note, Hunaphus, Schlafly Imperial Stout.

 

I found 3 bottles in a make your own 6 pack section for a buck each ($6 6pk)
I couldn't buy all 3 in good conscience, so I got two and left one for someone else. Did get 5 abbey ales from ommegang as well. Who ever made that section must have been new or just really fucking nice.

 

Ten Fidy
Outer Darkness (very underrated)
Stone RIS
Founders IS
Old Rasputin

 

1. Bell's Expedition
2. Ten Fidy
3. Founders Imperial Stout
4. Stone Russian Imperial Stout
5. Brooklyn Black Chocolate

 

This is a tough one.

1. Expedition - affordable, cellarable, long season, delicious
2. Ten FIDY - less affordable, cellarable, equally delicious
3. Stone RIS - hate the varying price point (between $5.99 and $9.99) but love the taste
4. Zhukov - a rare and delicious treat
5. Pt5 - love gettin' my booze on

 

A very tough choice but...
1. Dark Lord (pre-2010)
2. Marshal Zhukov's
3. Brew Kettle Tunguska
4. Plead the Fifth
5. Blackbeerd

 

Berkshire Brewing Co RIS
Ten Fidy
Old Rasputin
Stone RIS
Founders IS


In no particular order. My favorite beer from BBC

 

Yikes, tough one for me, but after looking over my reviews, I'd go with this in order:

1. Mikkeller's Black Hole
2. North Coast's Old Rasputin
3. Midnight Sun's Moscow
4. Hoppin' Frog's D.O.R.I.S.
5. Founders RIS

Honorable mention:

Brooklyn's Black Chocolate
Victory's Storm King
Thirsty Dog's Siberian Night
Troeg's Impending Descent

Go ahead, I'll take my beatings for not even putting Ten Fidy in honorable mention.

 

Here's my top 6 (all rated 4.75):

Hoppin Frog Bairille Aois BORIS
Hoppin Frog BA BORIS
Hoppin Frog Cafe BORIS
Thirsty Dog BA Siberian Night
Dark Horse BBPt5
Parabola

 

1. BCBS
2. Old Rasputin
3. Stone IRS
4. Ten Fidy

I would chalk #5 up as "waiting to be had". There are so many in this variety that I have yet to experience. Perhaps this will be the year I add #5 and also bump something out of the top 4.