English Ales: Russian Imperial Stout

Notes: This style was also originally called “Russian Imperial Stout.”

  • ABV: 7.0%-12.0%
  • ABW: 5.5%-9.5%
  • IBU: 45-65
  • Color (SRM): 20-35+
  • Color (EBC): 40-70+
  • Original Gravity: 1.080-1.100
  • Original Gravity °P: 19.3-23.7
  • Final Gravity: 1.020-1.030
  • Final Gravity °P: 5.1-7.6

Style info provided entirely or in part by the Brewers Association 2021 beer style guidelines.

37 Russian Imperial Stout Reviewed

Beer Brewery Rate Avg.
Expidition Stout Bell's Brewery, Inc. 6.58
Fish Tale Poseidon's Imperial Stout Fish Brewing Company 8.24
Founders Imperial Stout Founders Brewing Company 9.00
Heresy Weyerbacher Brewing Company 9.16
Imperial Stout Trooper New England Brewing Company 8.00
Ivan The Terrible Big Sky Brewing Company 9.22
Marshal Zhukov's Imperial Stout Cigar City Brewing 8.60
Mr. Mephisto Imperial Stout Lake Louie Brewing 6.78
Oak Aged Yeti Great Divide Brewing Company 9.25
Obovoid Oak-Aged Oatmeal Stout Boulder Beer Company 8.00
Old Heathen Weyerbacher Brewing Company 8.58
Old Rasputin Imperial Stout North Coast Brewing Company 9.35