North Coast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout

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

From the bottle on Christmas Eve with cookies...Nice dark amber color, with nose of chocolate and rasberry poured a nice tan head. Tasted of bittersweet chocolate with a nice dry finish. Great dessert beer.

12oz bottle. An old favorite that always seems to be readily available. Pours pitch black with a nice tan head. Pleasing aroma with flavors of roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, and a hint of dark fruit and toffee. Very nice on the palate with medium astringency. Recommended.

On tap at Fathers Office. Pours a dark brown color. Smells distinctly of coffee. Tastes the same with chocolate, alcohol slightly present. Am very happy to see several places in Tucson now carry the four packs.

330 mL. Pours a used motoroil pitch black with a dark brown head that lasts and lasts. Great lacework. Nose is roasted malt, dark chocolate, cocoa, maple syrup, and spicy hops. Taste is full-bodied and powerful with lots of molasses, maple syrup, vanilla extract, and spicy hops balanced by a huge roasted malt presence. Oily mouthfeel. Powerful at 9% but is cleverly hidden making this almost a session beer. Definitely not a sipper like Bells Expedition or Dogfish World Wide Stout.

On tap at flying saucer. Has a dark brown color with a medium creamy tan head that lasts awhile. The aroma is roasted malt with coffee. Good sticky lacing on the glass. The taste is a sweet malt with dark chocolate and coffee. A very good imperial stout from North Coast.

12 oz bottle from Lucas Liquor. So drinkable for the abv an style. Chocolate, roasty malt. Ate some Dove dark chocolate with it and was a happy man.

Bottle from jessup plaza. nice black pour with a brown head that lasted awhile. Aroma of nice roasty malt along with rich chocolate and some coffee. Taste is fresh chocolate with some hops snee\aking in at the end. Quite drinkable and tasty.

12oz bottle. Pours black with a chocolate head. Decent carbonation. Aroma is of roasted malt, chocolate, syrup, and hops. Taste of hops, and chocolate, dark fruits, with alcohol. Very dry finish, surprisingly medium mouthfeel. I was expecting something to chew on but exceptionally drinkable