Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout

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

Amazing, amazing, amazing. Thick like motor oil, creamy brown head. Smell is hops and oak. Flavor lasts and lasts, chocolate, oak, and a hoppy burn on the back of your tongue. This is a fantastic beer.

Wow! Oak aging the Yeti sure adds a whole new dimension! this beer looks much like the non-oaked Yeti but thats about as far as it goes. Although the taste is similar it has a nice oak (duh!) and vanilla flavor. It seems incredibly smooth especially considering it weighs in at 9.5% abv and 75 IBU... how did they do that? GET IT!

An excellent choice. A little sour, but very heavy. This is the thickest beer I have ever consumed. One of my top-5 beers ever

I love the "ordinary" Yeti, so I was excited to taste this one in May 2006. It’s pitch black with a huge, delicious and creamy head with a nice brown color. The mouthfeel is oily and I feel like I’m eating this beer - nice.... The aroma is overwhelming and nice with notes of oak, roasted malts and hops. The flavour is fantastic!! It’s an explosion of flavours from almost vinous notes to oak wood, it has dark fruits, chocolate, licorice and lots of hops. The finish is very long and nice and dry. It’s a fantastic beer that is well balanced with both bite and gentleness - so yes, the Yeti can be tamed!!

Mostly deep roasted coffee aromas with some cocoas. I don’t get much wood in the arom though it is very full. Some alcohol is deinitely present. Texture is full bodied, creamy and thick. If anything is subtle it’s the hop profile. There are a whole lot of hops in here and not much comes through over all the other stuff going on. It’s definitely there but luke a big fat bass line instead of something more granular and vivid.

An overall amazing beer. Definite oak aroma with a brwonish head. Black as can be. Warms you up when you drink it. Great for sipping.

tap at Falling Rock in Denver-pours pitch black with a nice dark tan head with lots of bubble action. Aroma was bourbon, roasted notes, toffee, carmel, coffee-so much here. It almost has that dark lord thing going on. The flavors were out of this world! oak aging is there, but not as heavy as some i have sampled and melded so nicely with the rich coffee like body of this brew. this was an amazing brew that should be sampled by all stouties!

From bottle I picked up last year in TX. Sitting almost a year in my cellar. Big complex nose. First thing I smell is ripe blackberry with dark bitter chocolate. Following is vanilla and wet oak, mild cafe creme, and Tootsie Rolls. Licorice and fruity vinuous esters and mild alcohol vapors. Thick oily black, clear, with wispy but lacing dark cocoa-powder brown head. Medium to heavy body, not at oily as I would have predicted, but chewy nonetheless. Coats the tongue and throat with thick sweetness, and has nice alcoholic warming amidst medium carbonation. Starts with big roasted maltiness, sweet licorice and vanilla, cocoa and cafe creme, and just a hint of smokiness. Woody tannins and vinuous bitterness are followed by a quite large hit of hoppy bitterness. Not quite chalky, but definitely leaves a dry, dry finish over the underlying coffee and chocolate-raspberry sweetness. Just a bit too bitter at the end for me, and is the biggest detriment. Otherwise, this is a wonderful sipping stout, with a lot of great character and one to savor at #1600.