Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout

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

Serve in Snifter

Roasted chocolate malt, espresso, wood and hops. At first it was a little too bitter and then I got used to it and enjoyed it. Really thick brew. Long bitter finish from the espresso and hops. Boozy and refined.

Really enjoyed this RIS. The espresso combined with the oak create an exceptional flavor that hides the high ABV wonderfully

Botte, 075 ml. Pours an oily black, like motor oil. Aroma is vanilla, cafè, roasted malts with a slight hop edge. Taste is along the same lines. The hops come out more on the end as the beer warms up.

Poured black with a chocolate brown head. Sticky lacing. Aroma starts with vanilla and wood then chocolate comes through. Taste is bitter coffee, dark chocolate, wood, and some smokiness. Full body with a dry finish. Really good.

he aromas are chocolate, dark coffee, liquorice. The mouthfeel is dry, roasty and bitter with a heavy body. Great beer!

Draft. Dark brown, tan head, can’t see through. Bitter cocoa aroma. Tuck and creamy with more bitter coffee and chocolate in the mouth. Very rich and good for this style.

Bottle 66 cl @ Karhisma Birroteca (Piedimonte Matese, Caserta - Italy). Best before 02/15/12, so I think has at least 1 year aging. Well, I had a freshier one many times ago and my impressions are that aging increase its balance. Yetis normal version is totally hopped, dry and herbaceous, while young Espresso Oak Aged suffers from coffee influence. This one, on the contrary, puts in the middle: aroma is completely rich. You’ll find citrus, orange, blood orange, coffee beans, chocolate, cocoa, roasted malt, burned sugar, ashes, licorice, roots, pineapple. Body is heavy BLACK with a solid cappuccino foam, and gives you a viscous taste full of roasted and burned malt with the classic Yeti sharpness and fizzness; add some dark fruits, cocoa, vanilla. Moreover, finish introduce a good complexity. The dryness of whiskey, resinous as pine, moka and licorice notes again, dark chocolate and lasts long. In the end, finish the entire 66 bottle is so hard, but just for the body strength; alcohol doesn’t stun you and it’s very well hidden. So, we are in front of a great example of coffee IRS.

Served from a cask at the brick store. Looks fantastic and tastes it too. Robust aromas of coffee and chocolate. Thick creamy mouthfeel. Is it the best yeti? I think so.