Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout

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

Bomber in blind tasting, apparently to celebrate the end of my college career. Pours dark brown/black, opaque, and with a substantial brown head. Great lacing, I’m assuming a result of the generous hopping. Aroma has dark coffee initially, followed by sweet dark chocolate, roasts, and some later soapy-hops. On second or third sniff these hops become increasingly present. Flavor starts quite hoppy, with malt sweetness. Mid-palate has bold black-coffee-and-sugar and distinct roasted malt. Finish ends with nice bitterness, additional roasts, and a lingering hop finish. Wow. Coffee, hops, sweet malt, roasts . . . this beer has some of everything. And I’m not sure the final product is as full of pure goodness as either Yeti or Oak-aged Yeti. Perhaps the flavors just clash more then they blend. But overall this beer still tastes excellent, my second-favorite Coffee Stout to date.

Bottle. Pours black as midnight and as ethan has taught me this is good. Pretty nice impy that is relatively dry for the style. Big coffee flavors amidst some light oak, vanilla, and roasted malts. A great beer.

Bottle via trade with oobawa. Nose of wonderful dark chocolate, oak, raisin, espresso and mocha. Pours a thick and creamy coffee brown with a huge creamy medium brown head. Flavors are creamy chocolate, flavorful oak, burnt malt, coffee and a vanilla bean note. Mouth is full and chewy. Alcohol grows through the drink and begins to muddle the flavors. Need to get a few more of these to age to perfection.

Near black color, no light shining through. Excellent beige head, but it fades quickly and leaves nearly no lace. Smells like a malted chocolate milk shake. I detect no espresso or even coffee, but I do note some hop in the background. Rich and thick; slightly oily from the alcohol. Strong dark chocolate flavors. Again, no real coffee/espresso tastes here. The finish and aftertaste features a generous amount of balancing hops to the bittersweet cocoa. This is a deceptively easy to drink Imperial Stout.

Bottle at DLD ...Deep black ... good coffee roast nose ... smooth coffee roast ... bitter hop front ... big roast ... good solid coffee

Black, with a fat brown head. Really nice aroma - you can definately smell the coffee and oak, plus some cherry and winey notes, too. Very rich palate. Nice mix of coffee and oak flavors, too, although these flavors seem a little at odds with each other. Overall, though its very tasty.

Pours black with a thick brown head. The aroma pours out of this one--huge coffee aroma, one of the strongest I’ve had to date. The mouthfeel is great, with perfect carbonation. Flavor is straight out coffee with just a hint of alcohol burn in the finish. Great brew.

500 mL into snifter. Pours pitch black with a one finger ultra dark brown head. Spotty lacing. Aroma of espresso, vanilla, maple syrup, molasses, grapefruit hops. Taste at first is coffee ice cream with espresso and charred oak with a cardboardy dryness at the end. But as this warms it is almost like a double IPA very similar to the Hercules Double IPA actually. Great grapefruit hops balancing shows through with a dry, bitter finish. Very interesting.