Samuel Smith Imperial Stout (England) 355

Pros: Superbly smooth, tasty, complex and BRITISH!
Cons: It's British, what cons?!

This review is my entry into the Made in GB W/O. Britain isn't called great for nothing y'know. It's not as if someone just came up with the idea to use the term 'Great' after the Act of Union...um...actually, that's exactly what ...

Pros: Nicely tasty with a big roast flavor
Cons: Too much of a lightweight to earn the "imperial" badge...

Folks who love Guinness Stout often like saying, "it's an acquired taste." The beer is roastier and drier than beer drinkers weaned on wimpy American lagers are accustomed to tasting, but if an Irish dry stout like Guinness is a taste that needs to be ...

Pros: Rich; Complex
Cons: High Price; Flavor Might be Too Much for Some People

Samuel Smith's is a great English brewery, known for brewing some very flavorful beers. This beer, Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout, is yet another tasty offering from this brewery, and it's one of two stouts that the brewery produces.

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Pros: Rich, complex Imperial Stout is widely available and very warming on a cold winter evening
Cons: Slightly light for the style

Long live the Empire! Or at least, the imperial stout, which is a beer with roots in two empires. Imperial stout made its journey from Imperial Britain to Czarist Russia during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Just as India pale ale was a...

Pros: Samuel Smith, excellent flavor and aroma, complex
Cons: May be too overwhelming for the average drinker

Imperial stout was originally brewed as a strong porter, and exported from England to Russia between 1780 and 1918. Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, was said to drink gallons of the stuff daily to ward off the Russian winters. Because it was...

Pros: A classic imperial, and one of the best on the market
Cons: Expensive. Clear glass bottles invite skunkiness.

Stouts are my favorite kind of beer and my favorite type of stout is Imperial stout. Imperial stouts were originally brewed in England for export to the Imperial Russian court ( hence the name. ) They were brewed extra strong to survive the journey. They ...

Pros: rich, filling, complex
Cons: a brew to be stepped into gradually

I can't say enough good things about this brew. Go and read, if you haven't already, the other "recommended" reviews, by andaryl and Brian_Carey, for instance--they say everything much more elegantly than I can. It's amazing to me that so much praise has...

Pros: Dark, rich, complex stout
Cons: Not for the average stout drinker

It seems in the area of stouts that many people have left out the stouts from Great Britain. There is a long brewing tradition on the 'Mother Island' that dates quite far back to their colonial period and probably beyond. And where the English soldiers...

Pros: Full bodied, peaty stout from a great brewery.
Cons: For stout drinkers only.

I f you are a stout drinker, then here is a beer you should try. Sammy Smiths' is famous for it's oatmeal stout, which is my personal favorite stout, and i'm sure this one will be popular too. Not your average stout, this imperial brew has a much more...