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Imperial Stout
Includes both Russian imperial stouts and American-style imperial stouts including several barrel-aged recipes and dessert (pastry) style stouts.
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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 bal
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Smoked “Imp” Imperial Stout
I 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
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Maple Imperial Stout
A high-gravity stout with a blast of maple.
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Candy Cap Mushroom Imperial Stout
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Imperial Stout with Dried Mushrooms and Cumaru
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Avery Brewing Co.’s 20th Anniversary Mephistopheles’ Stout clone
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Oskar Blues Brewery’s Ten FIDY clone
This recipe was developed to be brewed using a parti-gyle technique, producing 3 gal (11 L) of finished Ten FIDY and a second, larger volume
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Abysmal Stout (Bourbon “Barrel” Aged)
A high-gravity stout that gets its oak character from cubes that were soaked in Bourbon or rye.
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Against the Grain Kamen Knuddeln clone
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The BISness Belgian Imperial Stout
Kyle Larson, Brewer at Double Mountain Brewery in Hood River, Oregon provides a recipe to BYO from his homebrew collection.
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Rastaman Stout
Loosely based on Miles Davis Bitches’ Brew by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Rastaman Stout is part imperial stout, part Ethiopian T’ej. A fun
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Russian Imperial Stout: Style Profile