Beer Style: Imperial Stout
Includes both Russian imperial stouts and American-style imperial stouts including several barrel-aged recipes and dessert (pastry) style stouts.
3 Sons Brewing Co.’s Summation clone
This is the base recipe for Summation, which 3 Sons often brews variations of with added flavors like coffee, vanilla, and more. If you wish to create a variation with adjuncts, add after barrel aging.
Firestone Walker Brewing Co.’s Parabola clone
Parabola is arguably Firestone Walker’s most notorious barrel-aged beer and is released as a vintage beer each year. This imperial stout is thick with bold yet balanced flavors of chocolate, charred oak, vanilla, black cherry, and coffee.
Mortalis Brewing Co.’s Ophion clone
This is the base recipe for Ophion, which Mortalis has released numerous variants of over the years with differing aging times and occasional adjunct additions like vanilla beans, coconut, and more.
Prairie Artisan Ales’ Vinyl clone
A thick and chewy barrel-aged imperial stout with a high OG and FG, and tons of flavor.
Prairie Artisan Ales’ Bomb! clone
Bomb! is the brewery’s adjunct-driven flagship, a 12% ABV imperial stout made with ancho chiles, cocoa nibs, vanilla, and coffee.
Sapwood Cellars’ Flaked clone
This is their Sapwood Cellars’ Flaked (2021) beer, which is described as an imperial oatmeal stout with coconut and vanilla, and weighs in at 10.5% ABV.
Bring on the Warmth
Get tips and recipes for brewing three high-ABV styles — barleywine, wheatwine, and imperial stout — that you can brew now to help shake off the frost in the dead of winter.
Winter’s Imperial Stout
Imperial Stout Recipe (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.097 FG = 1.027IBU = 70 SRM = 100 ABV = 9.5% Ingredients12 lbs. (5.4 kg) U.K. pale ale malt3 lbs. (1.4 kg) Munich II
American Imperial Stout
American Imperial Stout (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.130 FG = 1.040IBU = 60 SRM = 86 ABV = 12% Our imperial oatmeal stout takes big and bold to the next level. This
Weyerbacher Brewing Co.’s Tiny clone
Weyerbacher Brewing Co.’s Tiny clone (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.090 (brew day) FG = 1.024 IBU = 50 SRM = 50 ABV = 11.8% Tiny, a Belgian-style imperial stout, embodies Weyerbacher’s
Gordon Strong’s Imperial Stout
I’m presenting an English-inspired version of an imperial stout with some American hopping.
Victory Brewing Co.’s Storm King Imperial Stout clone
A Victory classic that came out of the brewmasters’ love for rich malts and intense hops, the robust malt flavors are complemented and balanced with a huge charge of classic hop types. Storm King is a well-attenuated beer possessing a mouthfeel more reflective of a double IPA rather than a prototypical imperial stout.
