North Coast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout

Brewed by North Coast Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Fort Bragg, California USA

Bottle from robert at stateline. On tap as well from stateline....Its about black as black can get. Good toffee colored head that faded away. Aroma of coffee and roasted malts. Taste is coffee, lots of roasted malt, dark chocolate and maybe even some dark fruits. Texture is rich, not thick though. Almost oat like. Overall a good beer. Price wise I dont think there is a better impy out there.... Thanks Robert!

Pours black with 2 finger brown head. Nice lacing. Tastes of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, and toasted sugar, with some hints of raisin/dates and dried cherries. Sweet and malty, minor alcohol flavor but not overpowering. A complex and quite enjoyable brew.

Pours a jet black with a small tan head that leaves lace. Aroma is obviously roasted malt dominated, with accents of chocolate, coffee, alcohol, and even some oak and licorice. The flavor is a more chocolatey sweet roasted flavor, with a lingering aftertaste of dark chocolate. Delicious taste, even better aroma!

Glass from bottle. Pours a pure black color, with a mocha colored head. Aroma is remarkable, dark chocolate, espresso, currants, booze, toasty malts. Boozy flavor with tons of chocolate and coffee, hints of red fruits, sweet and warm. Good overall beer....(did a blind tasting of this beer at a 7/3/6/3/14 3.3, but I think i was pretty shit faced at that point.)

Pours black as coal with a thin ring of dark brown when held to the light. Head is tall caramel brown and last forever while leaving a good amount of lacing, beautiful beer. Aroma is huge on roast, chocolate liquor, coffee, molasses cookies, butterscotch, and some nice herbal, floral hops. Flavor is roasty, nice amount of coffee, bitter hops, dark roast, chocolate, a hint of toasty toffee, and some dark fruit. Overall it is a fairly sweet brew with a decent amount of alcohol coming through in the flavor. FInish is bitter and roasty with a really interesting herbal hop, dark malt aftertaste.

Bottle. Pours a black nectar with a brown head. Sweet and malty, roasty coffee notes, light dark chocolate and a floral bitter roasty/hoppy finish. Good.

12 oz. bottle, pours a pitch black body with rich brown foam head that disappears quickly. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, toffee, and dark fruit. Strong flavor of roasted malts along with flavors of bitter coffee, cocoa, and molasses. Not quite as heavy as most imperial stouts, but the mouthfeel is solid and a bit oily. Finishes dry with a roasted malt and cocoa bitterness.

12 oz poured to trappist glass. head is non existant save small wisps along sides of glass. little to zero lacing. nose of cocoa nibs. coffee is highly muted or not present. color is not translucent at all. mouthfeel is slick and and nearly dry, little coating. flavor of bakers chocolate, grapes, prunes, some other dark pit fruits. booze is hardly present, extremely smooth. easy to see why its one of the best. had this a few times but took me a while to whip up a review