Great Divide 15th Anniversary Wood Aged Double IPA

Brewed by Great Divide Brewing Company
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Denver, Colorado USA

Bomber from Craft. Pours deep coppery orangy with 1-finger eggshell head. Nose is oaky, caramel malty, peppery, citric, with vanilla and tangerine notes. Flavor is resiny hoppy, with woody dank caramel malt, resiny hops, peppery, and a well balanced palate. This one is very good, but experience has shown me, at least for my own palate preferences, that oak-aging seems to work better for me with the dark beers such as stouts, porters, and brown ales (DFH PSM) than it does with IPAs and lighter colored styes.

Pours a copper color with a tan head that dissipates and leaves a nice lacing down the glass. A little woodiness and pine hop aroma. Flavor is sticky sweet, resiny pine hops. Caramel malt and a gritty texture on the finish. Throw in some more hops and you’d have a tasty double going on here. Unfortunately those come up a little short. Also coming up short is the wood ageing which other than in the aroma I am not getting much of. Sounding a little down on this but this really is a tasty beer on the sweet and caramel malt side of the equation.

Bottle. Pours a nice amber color with thin white head. Aroma is floral hops with a nice sweet malt backbone. Notes of oak, citrus, pine, grapefruit, and lemmon grass come out. On the palate, it is a bit thick. The flavor really brings out the oak and a bit of caramel. Overall, I thought this beer was pretty good, nothing exceptional.

I smell oak, smoke, caramel. tan head, clear red-brown body Flavor cloud. dan

snifter @ Tyler’s Durham. OK aroma, sweet, oak, vanilla, grapefruit. Clean dark brownish orange. Good head and lace. Bitter sweet flavor, alot of oak, some gf. lite body, creamy oily mouthfeel, bitter dry finish. Eh, another oak ipa thing just not coming together for me. way to woody on this one. I give it a high mark because it did have a strong flavor, but overall I wasn’t that happy with it.

pours a dark amber with a fluffy head. aroma is vanilla with some hints of oak and pine. mouthful is dominated by oak with some more oak and then some more oak. there was a touch of vanilla and finish had some hop bitterness. The wood was too dominating for me here.

Poured from a bottle gave a copper amber hue with an off white head. Malty semi sweet nose. Medium body. Flavors of oak, caramel malt, solid bitter hops. Can taste a bit of alcohol heat. Finish is balanced malt and hops. Tasty for sure!

I liked this one a lot... pours a dark copper, but more torwards ruby... 2 finger head, course bubbles that recedes slowly, lacing is sticky and leaves a long trace in the glass... smells of oak, some muted forest pine, and subdued earthiness... mouth feel is really creamy and alcohol is muted very nicely... flavors are crisp wet pine, oak and some herbal mustiness... they go together very well... nice one and deserves to be tried by everyone... I’ll grab another.