Big Sky Ivan the Terrible Imperial Stout

Brewed by Big Sky Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Missoula, Montana USA

Thanks very much for sharing this Todd! Bottle 902/1152. The beer pours to a black body with a coating tan head. The aroma is sweet bourbon, oak, and chocolate. Perhaps some cherries? The flavor is chocolate cherries and coconut oaked bourbon. Medium full body. Creamy. Delicious. It delivered nicely!

750 ml bottle drank with Eric, Sam, Jeremy, and Craig. Pours a dark brown with a large beige head. A rich nose of wood, bourbon, vanilla, roasted malts, very sweet. The flavor is great; rich bourbon goodness, woody, roasted malts, sweet vanilla, powerful and very good. Thanks guys.

@RLRL with Orlando group-thanks toBeerlando -750ml bottle 531 of 1152-pours barely an off white ring for a head and black color. Aroma is sweet dark malt-chcolate/molasses, oak. Taste is bourbon/oak, dark fruit, sweet dark malt-chocolate/molasses. Mild carbonation. Smooth.

Bottle: Pours with sublimely dense chocolate milk colored head, a swirl coats the glass thick as a black pron star’s cock..underneath, the beer sits jet fucking black. The nose is robust..roasty, boozy, and extremely nutty...the fumes seem to climb up the nostrils into the brain...Once in the brain, chocolate, toffee, coffee, and lactic notes melt all your brain cells. My good lord, the flavors are like straight of liquefied nut butter. Sweet underneath, waves of chocolate and vanilla splashing you in the face, and thick liquefied nut butter. Carbonation is there but very soft...the mouthfeel is extremely silky..the booziness is present and warming but not overly hot. This will still get better with a year or two on it, but its still quite exquisite.

This is a limited release, only 3000 bottles this year. Pours inky brown, with a nice brownish-tan head. lacing. The aroma is rich and dark, the flavor has roasted malts and coffee with bourbon. There is oak and vanilla, with dark chocolate features as well. This is so rich and complex that it is almost syrupy, but I like it. I see why someone said they would pour it on vanilla ice cream...Thumbs way up.

thanks to beerlando for sharing a 750ml. Rich decadent aromas chocolate liquore, kaluha, with a strong vanilla note. Pours a very dark brown with a thin tan head. Smooth dark malts, chocolate and molasses, with vanilla and oak flavors with sweet creamy coffee. Very nice!

Cask Stillage from the Jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 26/09/2009 Big bourbon aroma. Small beige head. Black smooth on the palate and very strong in alcohol with a little dryness and bitterness in a chocolate and vanilla flavoured finish.

as soon as i pop the bottle i smell bourbon! pours a very thick black with a nice 3 finger brown head that leaves moderate lacing. aroma is big on sweet, syrupy bourbon and malt notes. i’m picking up lots of heat on the nose. the taste is great! balanced and mellow, with the flavors of vanilla, bourbon, oak, chocolate, roast, smoke and even some hops in the finish to cover the heat. nice creamy, creamy mouthfeel, and very smooth in the back. great offering from the north border!