About 95 years ago, Grigori Yefomovitch Rasputin was killed. Though he was purportedly a mystical healer and held some influence over the tsar of Russia, Rasputin’s remembered mostly for his murder, ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Grigori Rasputin was poisoned, shot, stabbed and drowned. After all that, he ...

Despite the fact that he has a reputation as a power-mad debaucherous mad monk who required five assassins to finally put down, Grigori Rasputin's birthday is still celebrated each Jan. 21, ...

Dark beers don’t get much darker than Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout from North Coast Brewing Co. in Fort Bragg, Calif. The jet-black elixir is rich and roasty with a dense, tan head, and packs a ...

just for academics. It's for beer drinkers, too. As described in a recent column on Double Pilsners, the meaning of the "Imperial" denotation found on so many beers these days dates to the late 1700s.

Beer lovers braved the rain Tuesday night to get a taste of some hard-to-find special Old Rasputin beers at Monk’s Kettle’s first vertical tasting event. A “horizontal” tasting is done by sampling the ...

For some reason — maybe it’s the longer nights — winter brings out a taste for dark, strong, malty beers: porters and stouts, particularly in the overpowering Russian and Baltic styles. They overflow ...