Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout - Barrel Aged

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RATINGS: 420   WEIGHTED AVG: 4.04/5   SEASONAL: Special   IBU: 75   EST. CALORIES: 366   ABV: 12.2%
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Barrel Aged Yeti Imperial Stout has been aged for 20 months in used barrels from Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey, Colorado’s only whiskey maker. The rich and robustly roasted beer of 12.2% ABV and 75 International Bittering Units (IBUs) picks up flavors of oak, vanilla and whiskey through the extended aging process. These flavors add greater complexity to the already rich beer, while tempering its assertive nature.

“Our intent,” says Great Divide founder Brian Dunn, “was to age each beer in the barrels for 9 months. But we got busy with other projects, primarily the addition of a new bottling line, and the beers ended up aging for more than a year and half.” While the labels on the bottles state that the beers were aged 9 months in barrels, both beers were in fact aged 20 months in barrels.

Release limited to 470 bottles.

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4.1
laiti (11125) - Tampere, FINLAND - MAR 3, 2023
UPDATED: MAR 3, 2023 44 cl can @ hotel room, Riga. Canned 05.10.2021 2021 vintage, 12,5%, at least 12 months in the barrell according to label Aroma has dark chocolate, liquor, some bourbon tones. Candy-likemä. Flavour has liquor, woody tones, milk chocolate and warming alcohol. Good slow sipper.

4
rennat42 (5113) - Ravenna, Nebraska, USA - JUN 13, 2022
UPDATED: JUN 13, 2022 Bottle. A- Chocolate, whisky, faint vanilla, faint oak. A- Black color, black liquid, tan head. T- Chocolate, roasty, slightly boozy. P- Full body, thick texture, average carbonation, balanced finish. O- A very big beer that despite being 8 years old has held up remarkably well. Lots of flavors trying to come through but age has played a role. Still a great beer.

3.8
pictoman (6031) - Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA - MAY 21, 2022
UPDATED: MAY 21, 2022 Poured from the tap. Near black with small beige head. Coffee and roasted malt with bourbon. Fairly simple and subdued.

4.2
ne_ekaterina (13) - - JAN 15, 2022
UPDATED: JAN 15, 2022 Кофе, накапливающаяся горечь. В запахе винные ноты. Классика. Пена практически отсутствует. Виски не чувствуется.

4.7
zizzybalubba (2187) - Raleigh, North Carolina, USA - FEB 24, 2021
UPDATED: FEB 24, 2021 16 oz. can from Total Wine (Triangle), Raleigh, NC (canned November 2, 2020). Pour is BLACK with a creamy khaki head. Aroma is magnificent with dark chocolate, vanilla, whiskey, and damp oak. Taste is incredible too with rich espresso, cocoa, coconut, vanilla, and booze. As expected, bitterness lingers on the palate and the finish is rather warm. An outstanding barrel aged imperial stout!!

3.8
Mpuntmuts (669) - NETHERLANDS - DEC 16, 2020
UPDATED: DEC 16, 2020 Pitch black. Aroma is of roasted malts, chocolate, caramel, leather, oak. Medium bitter sweet. Almost full body with soft carbonation. Very easy drinking beer.

4.2
wlajwl (12022) - Quad Cities, Iowa, USA - NOV 9, 2020
UPDATED: NOV 9, 2020 Aroma is chocolate/mild rocky road, roasted malts and slight vegetal/grains. The flavor is expected strong malts/slight vinous, chocolate, dark fruit and a mildly sweet/acidic/hint of spicy finish.

4.1
stevoj (14425) - Boise, Idaho, USA - MAY 25, 2020
UPDATED: MAY 25, 2020 16 oz can from Brewers Haven. Dark brown with a thin beige head. Roasty, woody aroma with a hint of bourbon barrel. An initial burst of sweetness and chocolate quickly turns back to the roasty, bitter malts, nutty and woody accents. Bourbon is very mild throughout, but does sneak up at the finish and as it warms.

4.3
KevinReddirt (1592) - Midland, Texas, USA - MAY 22, 2020
UPDATED: MAY 22, 2020 A tall boy can obtained last November in Ft. Worth over Thanksgiving, saved until a 96 degree day in May, go figure. Think I’ll use my ABGB snifter for this esteemed (hopefully) tasting. The pour is a vintage black with an inspired and lasting mahogany brown head. The smell, in a word, delightful. A strong hit of chocolate and a promise from the whiskey barrels. But I purchased to drink and here we go. Wow, all I hoped for, dense semisweet chocolate, multigrain bread, oak, a touch of vanilla, just a bit of caramel sweetness, all with bourbon wrapping around the outside. For all the various iterations of Yetis, this is one of the best.

3.8
Susie33 (2412) - Staunton, Virginia, USA - FEB 26, 2020
UPDATED: FEB 26, 2020 Dark brown pour. Thin foam. Cocoa and dark coffee flavor with bitter coffee palate.


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