Michigan Brewing Russian Imperial Stout

Formerly brewed at Michigan Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Webberville, Michigan USA

Serve in Snifter

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On tap @ Oak Cafe 2005 Pours dark brown to black. Nice dark tan to brown head it seemed to linger longer than most imperials. Aroma was piney and fruity at first then came the chocolate. Flavor Chocolate up front then some light licorice and fruit followed by a big roasty coffee finish. Very thick mouthfeel.

UPDATED: JAN 19, 2006 On tap: Aroma has chocolate, fruit, and light pine, but it’s also very vinuous. Dark brown, virtually black, with a small tan head that leaves behind very nice rings of lacing. Chocolate up front with some fruitiness. Very light hints of vanilla. Like the aroma some vinuous flavors. Finishes with a moderate piney hops and roasted coffee that lingers in the aftertaste for a while. Thick and oily mouthfeel.

2003 vintage. This is a dark black beauty with a small brown head that sticks around.Aromas of licorice, dark chocolate, roastiness, and some vinous notes abound. Flavors of dark chocolate, licorice, and roastiness greet you up front followed by some pleasent bitterness and some alcohol warming. I look forward to trying this when its aged a couple more years.

A lost sample fromthe 2002 batch of beer. Pitch black with brown edges and a dense light brown head. The aroma is roasted chocolate, oakey whiskey, and then as it warms a hint of horse blanket. The wood comes through in the flavor as well balanced with crisp roasted malt and solid bitterness all of which gives way to a warming alcohol aftertaste. This seems a little light on the mouthfeel, but the lingering roasted malt flavor makes up for it. A good beer overall, but certainly not the best Imperial Stout I’ve ever had.

strong nose of mellow fruit, red juicy, a little bit of alcohol all rapped in strong chocolate, some cedar and oak as well. sweet with dry points throughout, cedar, charchol, variable throughut, keeps it interesting.

very winey and woody aroma, black...no head, super woody and vinous with a splash of milk chocolate and a roasty finish with the slightest hint of alcohol, aged "3 or 4 years" in a bourbon barrel and it shows

Had this at thier taproom and after a few, had my keys taken away. It did have a strong roasted flavor, but not the overly sweet flavor I've had in other imperials. I like a beer you can gulp down, and not sip, and this beer can be gulped with no problem, despite the heavy flavors and alchohol. Color is black, thick and black. Another great beer, if not the best, produced by MBC.

Big, black beauty. Strong alcoholc nose is laced with black licorice, roasted malts, coffe, and cocoa. Body, mouthfeel both huge. Hints of underlying vinous notes. Alcohol is strong but rewarding in such a heavy load. It's all there, one of the "get you warm in a hurry" Imperial Stouts.

Draft, at MBC taproom, Oooh, mama! They are pushing it in a field crowded with great beers. It is an excellent brew on its own merits. A strong taste that avoids the mediciny aspect of a lot of other RIS's. I'd like to have taken some home to age.

UPDATED: JUN 4, 2003 This brew poured a small head of dark brown bubbles and an opaque dark black/brown colored body. It had a heavy malt aroma and a very strong coffee flavor with good lacing and a smooth finished.