BBIS

Reuben's Brews in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸

Stout - Imperial Regular

Score

7.40

ABV: 14.0%

IBU: -

Ticks: 13

BBIS is brewed using the same oat-forward and British specialty malt recipe that we followed with the original release in 2013. Over the years we have adjusted and enhanced it, introducing new techniques to produce a bigger, richer, and silkier beer. Most of the barrels in this year’s blend have spent about 18 months aging in 8- to 12-year-old bourbon barrels, with the addition of some younger BBIS to contribute to the complexity of this bold imperial stout.

Tasting notes: Warming aromas of cocoa, milk chocolate and bourbon. The sip offers a silky mouthfeel, with vanilla and rich milk chocolate mid palate. Background notes of smoke, licorice and coffee are wrapped up with some cherry liquor at the finish.

Malts: C-60, Cara Munich, Chocolate, Crisp Pale Chocolate, ESB, Pale, Roast Barley
Hops: Magnum

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8.5

RennyDoig (4553) reviewed BBIS from Reuben's Brews 1 month ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

22oz bottle. Pours nearly black with minimal head. Huge bourbon, molasses, burn sugars, and charred wood on the nose. Flavour has tons of charred bourbon barrels, burnt sugar, bread crusts, and molasses. Great malt depth and barrel character with good integration and complexity.

Tried from Bottle at Reuben's Brews - Fremont Ave Taproom on 26 Dec 2025 at 22:17

6.9

Oakes (33493) reviewed BBIS from Reuben's Brews 10 months ago

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Dark brown, boozy and rich, some headsy phenols from the barrel. Lots of sugar. The base stout is on the sweet side, doesn’t have a complex malt character. It’s decent but definitely a bit too boozy for me.

Tried on 09 Mar 2025 at 05:51

8.2

Dedollewaitor (22132) reviewed BBIS from Reuben's Brews 2 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Trade. Shared at Delaneys, Odense. Pours mega Black with a small beige head and lacings. Roast and bourbon. Slick vanilla, No booze, coffee and a touch of dried fruit. Well rounded and quite sippable for 14%. Excellent bourbon impy with No messin about. Chocofanter. Nice

Tried on 15 Oct 2023 at 08:17

7.5

explosivedog (14050) reviewed BBIS from Reuben's Brews 2 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle, shared by Jon, 2022 version. Pours black. Chocolate, biscuit, bourbon, nutty, vanilla, intense booze, cherry. Oily body. Good.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Aug 2023 at 21:54

8.8

samuel214 (2965) reviewed BBIS from Reuben's Brews 4 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Flaska från Reuben's, årgång 2019, 14%. Mörk brunsvart med tjusig brun krona. Väldigt mycket bourbonfat i både doft och smak. Massor av bourbon, toffee, hårt rostade toner, läkerol, likörpralin, marsipanbröd, saltlakrits. Stor kropp med riktigt mycket fatprofil, utan att det slår över i för mycket. Rejält med bourbonsmak, ligger kvar länge i munnen. Old school storlek större. Riktigt gott.

Tried on 07 Feb 2021 at 17:58

8.1

fiulijn (28382) reviewed BBIS from Reuben's Brews 6 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Courtesy of Sergey
Black colour. Lean and elegant, with strong bourbon character and strong alcohol, cocoa, touch of marzipan. Warming.
Very good.

Tried on 13 Dec 2019 at 09:41

7.9

BeerPlace (10899) reviewed BBIS from Reuben's Brews 6 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

22oz from Co-op at Alex's shared with Andrey. Appearance: dark brown with a beige head. Aroma: a bit sweet, bourbon, some booze. Taste: along the same lines, some licorice. Overall: pretty nice

Tried on 13 Dec 2019 at 06:20

7.4

djd07 (28882) reviewed BBIS from Reuben's Brews 9 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

2016 on tap at the brewery. Pours black with small beige head that diminishes to nothing. The aroma is wood, bourbon, vanilla, roast. Medium body, roast, cocoa, vanilla, light smoke, boozy finish, very good.

Tried from Draft on 25 Nov 2016 at 11:46

5.2

crit200 (5324) reviewed BBIS from Reuben's Brews 9 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Black with brown head. Woody alcoholic nose and palate, both so strong nothing else comes through

Tried on 30 Jul 2016 at 23:30

5.9

beastiefan2k (4724) reviewed BBIS from Reuben's Brews 10 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Had 2013, 2014, and 2015 on tap at the brewery during the 2015 release. One was oxidized and one was super diacetyl. The 2015 was neither but a thinner body than I want. Not super sweet or super boozy but definitely both, again a thicker body would help. Not particularly interesting or worthy of revisiting.

Tried from Draft on 20 Dec 2015 at 14:07