Great Divide Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti

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

Serve in Snifter

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UPDATED: MAY 24, 2010
Bottle 22fl.oz.

Clear dark dark red brown color with a large, creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty,roasted, burnt, chocolate, moderate wood - oak, light vanilla. Flavor is light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, chilli - peppery burn finish, very dry. Body is medium, texture is oily - creamy and smooth, carbonation is soft. [20090922]
8-4-8-4-16

Bottle 22fl.oz. @ chrisos Back In The UK Tasting.

Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy - creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, roasted, dusty, wood - oak, moderate to heavy dark chocolate, vanilla notes. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, tobacco - wood, peppery - chili spicy burning finish. Body is medium full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic. [20100522]
8-4-9-4-17

Bottled. A pitch black with a brown head. The aroma is powerful with notes of alcohol, chocolate, wood, and cocoa. The flavor is very sweet with strong notes of roasted malt, chocolate, vanilla, leading to a very roasted finish. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.

Bottle 65 cl. Courtesy of bu11zeye. Pours an opaque black with a light brown head. Aroma of a little oak and chocolate. Medium body, distinct cocoa and hard roasted malts and a strange cardboard edge. Also a weird chili burn in the finish. Only a light malt bitterness. Not really a great Yeti. 220909

22 fl oz bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is mild wineous and dark chocolate aroma. Vanilla and fruity. Roasted and dark chocolate flavoured. Mild hardroasted acidic note. Dark chocolate lingering finish.

Draught@SBWF2009. Deep ambery brown colour, small brown head. Aroma is chocolate, mild notes of wood as well as some slight roasted notes and coffee as well. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, alcohol and mildly burnt notes. Quite syrupy notes as well.

Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival. Very black, small beige head. Chocolaty tarry nose. Fairly sweet with full body. Tarry chocolate cake with salt and whisky. Dense and concentrated. Resiny bitterness that grows, grows and grows getting inky with some chili heat. More gimmicky than balanced, but still tasty.

Bottle at Stockholm Beer and Whisky 2009. Pitch black coloured with a medium sized beige head. Roasted aroma of cocoa beans, dark chocolate, liquorice and vanilla. Roasted flavour of dark chocolate, liquorice, oak, dried fruits and hops. Long and dry roasted finish.

Black color; generous creamy head. Over the mild roasted malts, there is some nice hopping; sandy. It has an average body strength, with too much alcohol feeling, hot as if there were chili pepper, and some mixed caramel and chocolate flavor. The final is burning (I’m reading only after the rating that there is cayenne pepper). Strange.

UPDATED: JUL 31, 2010
Name: Yeti, Chocolate
Date: June 26, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brick Store Pub
Appearance: black, fine tan head, sheets of lace
Aroma: dark chocolate aroma, light spicyness
Flavor: rich chocolate flavor, dark chocolate bitterness, lingering peppery spicyness that starts of light and grows

Name: Yeti, Chocolate
Date: August 03, 2009
Mode: bottle
Source: hop city
lot more hop character in the bottle version but not as spicy other than the peppery alcohol, light oak shows better in the bottle,

Name: Yeti, Chocolate
Date: May 16, 2010
Mode: draft
Source: bsp
Vintage: 2009
mellowed out with the rich chocolate taking control, picking up some sweet dark fruits,

Name: Yeti, Chocolate
Date: May 16, 2010
Mode: draft
Source: bsp
Vintage: 2010
big roasted character compared to the 2009

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: **+ /4

Black with a medium sized beige head. Sweet aroma with burned malt, espresso and dark chocolate. Flavour had burned malt, dark chocolate espresso and canilla. Finished sweet and full.