Great Divide Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti

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

Bomber bottled in July of 05. Jet black pour tan thin head. Chocolate malt scent. Very smooth and balanced with a dark chocolate bitterness with a kick at the end that is spicy.. A beer both the wife and I enjoyed. Very hard to find here.....

Yup. Chocolate and stout. Very nice combo. Rich and sweet. Good pour with tan/brown head. Vanilla and slight bourbon notes. Tasty. Wife turned it down. Must make it through the bomber.

Thanks to the Ratman for sharing this, pours almost black with a dark tan finger thick head. Nose Sweet and peppery spice. The flavor is chocolate, roasted malt and a definite cayenne burn that lasts into the finish. Thin for an Imperial Stout.

bomber at a kw group tasting. shared by jan primus. pours black with a tan head. huge hoppy yeti aroma. i didnt get much chocolate in the nose. the chocolate did show up mid palate and the finsh showed the hops and the cayenne. i think it would have been more enjoyable without the heat because each sip made the finish seem hotter and hotter. still a really nice beer overall, thx for the share jan!

Bomber from Leuken’s in Oldsmar. Pours dark brown/ black with a tan head. Nose is roast, oak, booze, vanilla, licorice, and earth. Flavor is earth, dark chocolate, cocoa, licorice, roast, slight barrel blending dry bits of cocoa. Medium-bodied and lingers with a dry barrel, chocolate, and boozy finish.

strong on the chocolate, vanilla and mint. the flavor work all the way around. the palate is thinnish but the look is fantastic. great stuff.

The aroma is very sweet with chocolate, burnt malt, molasses, and vanilla. The appearance is black with a foamy tan head. The flavor is like the aroma but also astringent in a bad way. The palate is smooth. Overall it smells nice but it does not taste that great.

Mahogany-hued obsidian. Thin and compact khaki foam. Complex but merely decent nose of ink, blueberry skin, grapefruit, prunes, tar, peppery alcohol, seared fudge, vanilla beans, black licorice and raw/sugary/newly cut oak. Carbonation is snug and firm on the palate. Relatively thin-bodied. Slickly plumlike, initially, with an oily espresso-laden body. Surge of alcohol and cocoa lend dryness while fusing with the fairly intense cayenne bite. Grapefruit-hop twang remains merely suggestive, thankfully, so as to not obscure the vibrant ink, fruity esters and gooey liquefied-black-licorice tingle. Pungent oak generates ample vanilla which harmonizes with the wafery pale malt notes. Cayenne-induced fervor highlights the deep-rooted charcoal as it steadily heightens in intensity. Sufficient nuance lends itself in the form of nuts, toffee and tobacco, though the malt isn’t particularly deep or textural. Closes with grapefruit bathed in chocolate which is hushed by drying notes of cocoa, oak and smoky char. Oak perpetually lingers and pummels the lurking subtleties. Overall I find the oak overaggressive as well as excessively pungent, flabby and sugary (as is the case with Oaked Yeti). Regular Yeti lacks the bells and whistles, and remains my favorite of the bunch as it is a fairly clean and well-focused showcase of malt.