Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout

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

Serve in Snifter

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Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout is a big beer with a bold taste. Unfortunately, it is too bold IMHO. Looks like a good stout with an expected dark color and think tan head. Nice roasty aroma. Overdone coffee flavors dominate with a fitting bitter bite that seems to mask other flavors that one might expect in a stout. The beer does tend to grow on you as the pint goes down, but Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout takes too much of a learning curve to appreciate.

On tap at Great Divide. Pour is pitch black in appearance with a fluffy brown head and great lacing. Big chocolate, molasses, oak, somewhat peaty, a touch of vanilla, graham crackers, deep dark roasted coffee, and tobacco in the aroma. Taste is big dark chocolate, licorice, molasses, toffee, light ash, espresso, dark fruits, somewhat earthy and grassy with a huge lingering cocoa finish, that leaves your tongue covered in dessert-like chocolate. Thick creamy mouthfeel with soft carbonation and beautifully hidden alcohol. Really awesome stout!

Bomber. Bottled on 12/17/12. Aroma of coffee, leather, earth, wood, milk chocolate. Extreme coffee, roast, and chocolate up front. The middle has a bitter herbal medicinal quality, with soft vanilla undertones. Finishes extremely bitter, with ashy oaky notes. Over the top for sure. Another 6-12 months in the cellar wouldn’t hurt.

Big black pour brown very well laced thick small bubbled head with some alcohol laces on the glass. Aroma of espresso and lightly bitter cocoa a hint if butter and vanilla. Full well coated lightly creamy palate. Flavor has a touchy of chalkiness to it lingering cocoa and espresso a clean grassy hop finish is well pronounced. Very enjoyable.

Viscous black with a tan head. Aroma is Malt with a mocha edge. Taste is milky vanilla, light coffee, chocolate. Rich but not overpowering. Almost sessional. Palate finish is bitterness. Overall, surprisingly light flavours for an imperial stout but very tasty.

Slam dunk. Immediately you’re hit with the rustic characteristics of coffee, smooth sweet oak notes, vanilla, and a toastiness. Pours a dark black with a chocolaty brown head. Taste is bold. Flavors of coffee, faint chocolate, smooth vanilla finish off that thick body. The hops blast in at the end to remind you that it’s a brew. The finish lingers a bit and continues to develop more character and rustic quality, yeah.

1 year aged bomber (thanks beer store!) into over-sized snifter glass. Pitch black, maybe the slightest brown color around ring, with very little dark tan head after a hard pour. Aroma of dark coffee, roasted malt sweetness, vanilla, smoke and a slight note of oak woodiness. Taste is big chocolate and espresso up front. The middle adds nuances of earthiness and licorice. Finish is lingering bitter chocolate, bitter hops, smoke and roast. Heavy body, rich, thick, oily, creamy and smooth. Wow, on a non-work day this would be great for breakfast! Vacation season is coming up ....

Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout is a new addition to the Yeti clan. A generous infusion of Denver’s own Pablo’s espresso adds yet another layer of complexity to this beer, combining with the vanilla oak character, intense roasty maltiness and bold hop profile to create a whole new breed of mythical creature. It’s official, you can now have Yeti with breakfast.

22oz bottle to pint glass. Aroma of smoke, dark chocolate, and coffee. Light tan head with minimal lacing. Roasted coffee flavor with strong malty backbone. Slight bitter hop presence intermixed. Nearly perfect

On tap at Mad Mex (North Hills). Sweet espresso nose with vanilla, oak, chocolate, light molasses, and a hint of smoke. Dark black opaque with dark brown lacing foamy head. Medium heavy body with heavy carbonation, fizzy and alcoholic warming. Light chewy. Starts sweet and roast with burnt malty caramel, smoke, oak, vanilla, and chocolate. Rich, malty, and hot. Big warming. Big bitter chocolate finish with roasted burnt malt tang. Oak and smoke after, with lingering sweetness and carbonic tang.