Beer Style: Imperial Stout
Includes both Russian imperial stouts and American-style imperial stouts including several barrel-aged recipes and dessert (pastry) style stouts.
Prairie Artisan Ales’ Vinyl clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyA thick and chewy barrel-aged imperial stout with a high OG and FG, and tons of flavor.
Prairie Artisan Ales’ Bomb! clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyBomb! 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
FREEThis 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
Digital and Plus Members OnlyGet 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
Digital and Plus Members OnlyImperial 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 malt (9 °L)1 lb. (454 g) flaked oats1.5 lbs. (680 g) U.K. roasted barley (~550 °L)1.5 lbs. (680 g) U.K. chocolate malt (~440 °L)1
American Imperial Stout
Digital and Plus Members OnlyAmerican 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 is a double mashed stout using an intricate malt bill with a lower percentage of base malt and the addition of rye malt
Weyerbacher Brewing Co.’s Tiny clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyWeyerbacher 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 philosophy of big, bold beers with a flavorful twist. While the craft beer world has largely gravitated toward stouts fermented with a clean-fermenting
Gordon Strong’s Imperial Stout
Digital and Plus Members OnlyI’m presenting an English-inspired version of an imperial stout with some American hopping.
Victory Brewing Co.’s Storm King Imperial Stout clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyA 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.
Smoked “Imp” Imperial Stout
Digital and Plus Members OnlyI like to make my imperial stouts on the dry/thin side so I mash low, but feel free to raise your mash temperature, or add some rolled oats for more of a “wet” stout with added mouthfeel.
Maple Imperial Stout
FREEMaple Imperial Stout (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.076* FG = 1.021IBUs = ~35 SRM = 45 ABV = 9.6%* Prior to maple syrup addition Ingredients10.5 lbs. (4.8 kg) 2-row pale malt2
Candy Cap Mushroom Imperial Stout
FREECandy Cap Mushroom Imperial Stout (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.084 FG = 1.021IBU = 60 SRM = 41 ABV = 8.2% Candy cap mushrooms impart a distinct flavor and aroma of