Sticky dry-bodied jet black bitter brings pervasive coffee theme to creamy lactose center. Slithery grapefruit, black currant, and oaken cherry cloister espresso-burnt cocoa bean souring draping resinous pine-tarred chewing tobacco pungency. Perfect strong sipper for stouthearted heavyweights.
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SOUTHERN TIER IMPERIAL CREME BRULEE STOUT
Unrivalled lactose stout (brewed with vanilla beans) retains intimate creme brulee warmth, replicating a Sugar Daddy candy bar at its opulent butterscotch finish. Syrupy dark caramel malting bulks up liqueur-like Sambuca, Kahlua, bourbon and Bailey’s Irish Cream sweetness as well as tertiary cappuccino, rum raisin, Black Forest cake, bananas foster, and French vanilla ice cream illusions. Maple-sapped chocolate pecan, white chocolate, and cocoa creaminess reinforces cumulative mocha theme. A relaxing nightcap with mind-bending 10% alcohol amplification. On tap at Andy’s Corner Bar, luscious creme brulee creaming thickened while caramel-burnt toffee follow-up and bourbon whiskey spell get heightened.
BERT GRANT’S IMPERIAL STOUT
Heads up! Durable mocha malts provide thick cover for sticky maple sap sweetness, rich black chocolate cluster, and veritable saltwater taffy insinuation nicely countering sharp grain bitterness. Extremely strong espresso-like finish anchors precision-guided full-bodied stout. Brewery defunct: 2007.
GREAT DIVIDE OAK AGED YETI IMPERIAL STOUT
Terrifically robust mahogany dry stout opens with dark-roasted black chocolate insistence firmly underscored by oak-singed black molasses, roasted coffee, espresso, dried cocoa, ashen walnut, pecan and hazelnut. Cedar-burnt hop bittering heightens residual sour raspberry, vinous white grape, pureed black cherry and emerging bourbon theme thickening to coarse tar-like tobacco chew finish. Creamy vanilla fudge reminder scours earthy bottom.
(MICHIGAN) NO DISPUT’N PUTIN IMPERIAL STOUT
SPRECHER IMPERIAL STOUT
GOOSE ISLAND BOURBON COUNTY STOUT
Thickly minted anise stickiness pierces warming oak-charred bourbon theme as brown chocolate sweetness and lingered espresso bitterness bedeck tart cherry puree souring of intensely alcoholic stout. Chewy fudge midst acquires syrupy molasses muddiness, vacillating vanilla bean nuttiness, and countering vinous burgundy ruddiness. Beneath penetrable caramel malting lies minor soy hint.
BIEROPHOLIE IMPERIALE STOUT
GREAT DIVIDE YETI IMPERIAL STOUT
Fantastic array of hop-charred roasted coffee beans, mochaccino, and espresso widen appeal of robust 9.5% alcohol dry body. Black oak, pine resin, and cedar fortify bitter end while creamy vanilla malting sweetens bourbon-barleywine finish splendidly.
MIDDLE AGES DRAGONSLAYER IMPERIAL STOUT
STONE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN STOUT
Fabulous opaque jet black ’05 release goes down velvety smooth despite heady 10.8% alcohol guise as creamy black chocolate overlay absorbs dried espresso-coffee roasting and coarsening charcoal backdrop. Chewy molasses-caramel-toffee midst increases above silken anise spicing, black currant bittering, nutty raisin swipe, and bread crusted base. Sherry-port notes subsume grape and cherry esters to fig-induced mocha finish.




