Great Divide Barrel Aged Yeti

Brewed by Great Divide Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Denver, Colorado USA

Serve in Snifter

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Thanks to OmegaX for this one - I love the Yeti! Into a snifter poured a damn dark beer, and the head was dark as well. Aromas were full of whiskey and chocolate with a light coffee scent. The mouth-feel was thick and malty, while roasted malts and cocoa filled the mouth with a palate-assaulting kick of flavor. Undertones of milk chocolate and charred wood added to the complexity of this beer, and made this great sipper all the more enjoyable. Fantastic stuff, right here.

750ml bottle, courtesy of ablackshear, split with a friend. Pours a thick, jet-black color with a dark brown head. Aroma is bourbon. Not much else. A bit syrup-like on the palate with soft carbonation. Flavor is sweet, chocolate, coffee, bourbon, roasted malt, vanilla, oak, with a sweet, bourbon finish. Holy crap, that’s good.

From notes. First reviewed 2/17/2011. Poured from a 750 mL bottle into a tasting glass. The beer itself is a dark mahogany color with a dark brown edge. A small tan head retains well and leaves a bit of sticky lace on the glass. The aroma is great and displays wonderful balance. Bourbon, roasted malt, some dark chocolate, vanilla, oak, a little extra unspecified booze, and some light coffee as an extra kick. Whiskey brackets the rest of the flavors before and after. Roasted and chocolate malt, dark chocolate and cocoa, and a bit of vanilla and woody oak toward the end, leading into the whiskey finale. Creamy, smooth, and full bodied. The bourbon warms the throat and stomach. The carbonation is on the lighter side, staying out of the way of the lush feel. A great beer to barrel age. I have liked each variety of Yeti I have tried. This turned out extremely well.

Pours an opaque black with a light brown head. Bitter and sweet. With aromas of dark malts, coconut, vanilla and dried fruits. Full bodied. Soft carbonation.

So happy I finally got to try this! Thanks a million Shane, you always hook me up! Appearance is a really nice abyss black. Minimal head per usual on these barrel aged beers. Smells of delicious stranahan barrel whiskey, chocolate and vanilla mixed with subtle oak. The taste is very barrel faint, I get the whiskey on the back of the tongue but overall this beer is really smooth. Some coffee notes and vanilla in the taste. The chocolate comes through in the beginning and adds a nice twist to the finish. Really glad I finally got to try this one!

2009 edition. Bottle 165/1104 drank on 2/22/12. Dark and opaque with some translucency at the edges. Good carbonation, yields a thin dark french press coffee colored head that fades quickly with no lacing. Big nose of Mounds Bar chocolate and toasted coconut, along with vanilla and a bit of bourbon and roasted coffee. Taste follows this, with coffee and especially the whiskey becoming more prominent. Alcohol very apparent, a bit too much so, but hey, this is a big, sipping beer. Tried it with a pork and black bean chili-okay, but alcohol clashed with the spiciness of the chili. Also tried with a chocolate cookie and a Girl Scout Samoa...nice and complementary, but the winning pairing was a Colton-Basset Stilton...really terrific, the tingling sensation of the strong cheese went great with the whiskey burn and really bumped up the flavors of both, particularly the coffee in the beer.

Thanks a bunch to Scott for this bottle. 2011 vintage A - darkness, 1cm of dark chocolate head, a few legs. S - chocolate covered oak. espresso, dark chocolate, vanilla, and oak. T - more of the smell. decadent and delicious. M - light carbonation with a creamy mouthfeel. O - Spot on BA stout that is easier to get than ever. Wish I had another bottle

Poured at EBF Night of the Barrels. Oh how the beer god’s shined down on us that night. Great whiskey chocolate flavor both in the taste and aroma. Thick and super dark. What a gem this was.

Pours dark thick black coffee amber with a dark caramel head. The aroma is lightly sweet and bready, not much of the whiskey but a little bit of the whiskey sweetness is there for sure. The flavor is smooth for the barrel with notes of whiskey, chocolate, and sweet bitterness that blend well on the right smooth creamy body.

Bottle purchased at Mr. B’s in Denver during GABF 2011 and sampled during the Coldest Day of the Year Stout Tasting on 1/21/12. Pitch black pour with a medium tan head. Aroma of whiskey, chocolate, roast, vanilla and oak. Vanilla and oak start things off in the flavor, then dark chocolate and roast come through strongly all the way to the finish. Possibly the best beer of the tasting.