Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout

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

Pours black with brown head. Lots of coffee and chocolate in the aroma. Flavors of espresso, chocolate and roasted malts. I really like what the espresso adds to this beer. Full body with soft carbonation. My favorite of the oaked Yeti beers.

Bomber bottled 2/13/09 and aged about 10 months. Pours a pitch black color with a hint of mahogany at the edges. A thick and foamy tan colored head crowns the top and shows great rentention with sheets of lacing coating the glass. The aroma is big and shows notes of dark chocolate, espresso, toasted oak, and vanilla. Some roast, burnt caramel and cream blend nicely on the back end. The espresso seems to have been covered up some from all the chocolate and malts from being aged. The flavor follows with big dark chocolate, roasted malts, burnt caramel up front. The espresso comes through a little more along with the vanilla from the oak. Full bodied and smooth with balanced carbonation that leads to a lengthy bitter chocolate finish. The alcohol is hidden nicely as well. I definitely want to try one fresh next time, but as it stands it is still a great beer.

Full bodied dark brown pour with medium sized frothy head. Nose is surprisingly dull at least compared to expectations. Flavor, while nice and filled with espresso, malts, chocolate goodness, it’s definitly missing something. Overall, glad to have the opportunity, I think I’ll stick to the au nataral or ba versions.

Poured black with a tall creamy brown head, like a chocolate float. The aroma was like a chocolate milkshake with coffee and a hint of alcohol. Initially the taste was like a chocolate milkshake followed by a mellow coffee flavor. The coffee flavor became more of an espresso bite towards the finish, but it mellowed out making this a very smooth drinking beer. There was a light amount of warmth on the palate. The alcohol was hidden very well in both the aroma and taste. The head left nice lacing throughout the glass.

Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout pours obsidian with a camel brown head. Aroma of dark chocolate, espresso, vanilla...nice mouthfeel with tastes of roasted malt and raisin. I don’t get much advance of espresso even compared to the ’plain’ oak-aged Yeti. Nice beer, though.

Poured from 22oz., thanks to nickd717. Darker brown with medium tan head. Nose of dark espresso with a little milk, oak, and some chocolate thrown in. Taste was right there also, reminded me of a boozy chocolate milk mixed with coffee - iced mocha maybe. Overall very tasty, a good breakfast beer.

no pleased with this at all. pours black with thin tan head. very sweet soy aroma and not much else. drinks very thin and sweet with soy sauce, slight oak, and old coffee grounds. very thin beer

22oz bottle thanks to nickd717. Black with a tan head. Oak, coffee, cocoanut, and hoppy aroma. Complex, but just a touch too much spicy oak chip character. The flavor is smoother than the aroma, with some vanilla and spice from the oak, and a bitter, roasty finish. Medium on the malty sweetness with a nice coffee balance that is really the highlight, but the oak provides a weird counterpoint that still holds it back a little. I like this much better than oak aged yeti, but the oak is really the problem. The coffee is actually quite nice in this, but great divide just sucks at any subtlety when oak-aging beers, and the oak holds back what could be a great coffee stout.