Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout

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

Much prefer the regular Yeti. Pours beautifully and looks the part of an IS. Aroma is second to none with lots of molasses, chocolate and gauze. Flavor is a bit too oily for me, but I’m told it improves with the proper food pairing. Palate is a so heavy that it’s a challenge to differentiate the sensations. I like it, but don’t remotely love it.

This was a great idea it combines one of my older (relative) loves of beer: the Imperial Stout, with one of my newest loves in beer, Oak aging. Pours thick black motor oil with a mocha head. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate and vanilla. Flavor is very vanilla and oaky with huge notes of dark chocolate and coffee. The alcohol that is normally present in an Imperial Stout, usually one of my least favorite parts, is much more rounded out by the oak. I have not had the non-Oak version of this, but it would make an interesting comparison.

Pours a very dark brown, almost black, with a tall brown, very full head. Aroma of toffee, roasted malts, and oak. Creamy body with a sweet light chocolate oak flavor at first with a very smooth transition to a delicious woody, roasted coffee finish.

Pours black with a thick brown head. Aroma is roast coffee, oak, and vanilla. Flavor is bittersweet chocolate and oak with some coffee on the finish. Very creamy mouthfeel. It feels like the oak mellowed out the flavors of the regular yeti. Its a great beer, but the flavors are a little too dull to be exceptional. Not quite as good as the regular yeti.

The pour is beautifully black with a short but substantial chocolate brown head. A nose into the snifter gives off roasted dark stout malts surrounded by an intense oak aroma with highlights of chocolate and coffee. The beer is amazingly heavy but smooth over the tongue, a notable presence with each drink. The taste is absolutely incredible. Roasted stout malts give it a nice firm platform to work on, your tongue will tingle with the bitter of smooth milk chocolate, vanilla extract, and black coffee. The oak does not translate from the nose of the beer into the mouth, but the bottle claims that the vanilla taste is imparted by the oak. If anything, the oak does seem to mellow out the normally intense style known as Imperial Stouts. The finish is an uncharacteristic yet somehow fitting, strong hop bitterness. It lingers for a second as if it coated your entire mouth with a thin oil. An absolutely stunning brew.

Poured black with a dark brown herad. Aroma - malt and bourbon. Oak and bourbon notes dominated up front. Sweet malt, mocha and some bitterness as it warmed. Excellent.

Pours a dark black with a thin tan head. Nice coffee, chocolate aroma and a little hops fights through as well. Very good flavor, a little bit of a bitter bite. Has some nice sweet vanilla in the flavor, but some great coffee and chocolate flavor. I love that I can find this beer and get such a solid product for just $7.99. Having a good Friday night with this beer and the Bourbon Angel’s Share I had earlier.

This is one tasty brew! Pours a deep black color with a nice tan head. Aroma is of vanilla, roasted malts and coffee. Taste is very nice with good vanilla flavor and biting alcohol. Very nice mouthfeel with more taste of vanilla in the finish. This is one monster of a stout and would enjoy it again.