Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout

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

Poured a pitch black with a really attractive dark tan head that leaves some fine lacing. The aroma is of chocolate, coffee, vanilla, oak, and some subtle, yet clear hop bitterness that you wouldn’t normally associate with a stout. The flavor definitely expands upon the aroma - the oak is more noticeable, and evolves into a bit of a vanilla flavor. The chocolate and roasted malt character are both petty pronounced, while the coffee takes a back seat to the other flavors. The hop bitterness is still present - lots and lots of hop sweetness, but this is balanced pretty well by the hop flavors, especially in the bitter finish. The palate is great, very rich and creamy. Very good beer overall, though I would like to do a side by side with the standard yeti.

Aroma of roasted malts, a touch of vanilla, a bit of chocolate, and just the slightest hint of oak. Pours a beautiful opaque black with a huge tan head. Taste wise, the oak is much more noticeable here, and blends well with the chocolate and coffee notes of the stout. Wonderful full, creamy palate, with a nice long bitter finish. Very, very nice.

My 999th rating! From a bottle, poured a beautiful oily black color with a brown head, mild lacing. It had very little carbonation. Aroma was sweet with chocolate, rich dark-roast coffee all balance out by mild oak notes and alcohol. Flavor was rich, with all the good things that make this style great. It did seem sweeter with chocolate notes then coffee notes. Oak notes were mild in the finish but if anything was missing from Yeti Imperial Stout it was mild oak notes in the finish. Full body and rich, left me wanting more.

Bottled. An impenetrable black as coal beer with a medium sized but quickly disappearing brown head. Intense aroma of wood, but balanced by notes of coffee, dark and milk chcocolate, fruits and light hops. The flavour has some vinous characteristics and is woody, with coffee and chocolate notes. Quite balanced sweetness and some acidity. Creamy mouthfeel, full body or near, low carbonation, long finish with medium bitterness. Lightly alcocholic. Very smooth and enjoyable, about at the same level of the regular Yeti (that maybe I slightly prefer). I hope to have it soon available in Italy.

Enjoyed from the taproom as well as in bottles and the Yeti Imperial Stout is always a great beer. Delicious and the bitterness is not overpowering. Drink slow and enjoy with desert. The thick roasted malt provides a heavly desert in itself.

1 pt 6 fl oz bottle. Pours perfectly black to brown with a dense dark chocolate creamy head. Vanilla, chocolate, light wood, roasted malt and a solid hops aroma. Very complex and somewhat overpowering hoppy aroma. Flavour starts sweet, shows roasted notes, smooth chocolate with a distinct vanilla note. Finish holds a solid and heavily bitter hops flavour with a mild wood note. Smooth at first and then the hops blew this brew totally out of balance. Sorry - starts great but simply gets too intense - towards brutal. I lack all sort of balance here. Yet the base is nice but a fraction of hops could have been enough. The flavour experience gets more smooth the more I drink of this - but that must be because my tastebuds have been knocked out quite early.

Excellent stout I’ve been meaning to try for quite some time. Served in the bottle (22oz.) at my local tap house. Poured dark as night with very little head. Flavors were rich, sweet, and bitter with roasted vanilla and toffee or hazelnut noticeable.

This beer was brought to me from outside Arkansas. We, unfortunately can’t buy it here. This beer pours a beautiful syrupy black, totally opaque, thick and rich. It has a frothy dark beige top, and leaves a great pattern on the glass, especially when the initial pour settles. There is the flavor of toasted oak and creamy Kailua coffee liqueur up front. Immediately behind that is a sweet dark chocolate. After you drink, the vanilla flavor invades the sinus. I don’t know if I tasted it or smelled it on the exhale, but it was wonderful. The hops are invisible, as is the taste of alcohol, until well into the aftertaste, but the hops are quite present there. I tasted the hops long after the drink. This is a world class beer, one of the best ever. It is sweet, complex and wonderful.