Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout

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

A beautiful pour, black and heady... Great mouthfeel, but too damn hoppy and bitter for a Coffee Stout. The Coffee is muddled with the lupulin bitternss causing disjointed flavors on my palate. I want to dig it but I don’t. I truly like the GD beers; however the massive amount of bittering hops fully destroyed the espresso presence, simply, too much boldness in one bottle.

Bottle. Pours black with a brown colored head. Aroma is dark choclate, roast, coffee, maybe ahint of oak. Flavor is choclate, coffee, burnt sugar, vanilla, metallic, hitn of oak. Palate is full bodied, mild carbonation, finished massively bitter, almost too bitter for my liking. Found this annoying metallic taste throughout that I just couldn’t overlook, and distracted from the beer. Decent, but flawed IMO.

Pours solid black with a thick brown head. Cocoa and roast aroma. Very heavy feel with a lot of bitter espresso and also a sweet creamy milk finish.

After my first bottle shattered on the floor this one poured very black with a small tan head. Aroma was roast, light coffee, and some oak coming through. I dont know if i am a lot more sensitive to the oak flavor in this but i found it way overpowering. It seemed to totally ruin the beer for me. I really wanted to like this one. The lingering taste on the tongue was just not that palatable to me at all.

Bomber from Liquor Stop in Highland, Indiana: This pours out a thick brown liquid that turns almost black in the glass and is topped by a tall light brown head full of all sizes and shapes of bubbles. The glass gets coated in pastey sheets of thick lace. It smells like strong coffee and alcohol. Fortunately, the flavor gets more complex. It welcomes the addition of bitter chocolate, charred wood, roasted malt, anise, and a suggestion of vanilla. There a sharp astringent jab at the back end that’s not very welcome... at least to me. It finishes on a bittersweet chocolate note with a burnt nut bitterness and a low alcohol burn. Interesting, but unbalanced.

I had this beer at the Great Divide Brewery taproom in Denver on 4/5/09. It had a strong coffee smell but mild coffee taste. Incredible body and flavor. One of the best stouts I have ever had!

Rich, dark creamy brown color with a molasses hue. Little carbonation. Twinkling of chocolate, espresso, and oak in the aroma--all in balance. A deeper sniff yields ether. Flavor is full of ethyl alcohol, and roast chocolate. A dollop of chocolate covered espresso bean hatches on the palate. Oak and pinches of vanilla on the finish.

Sampled on draft at the Rivertowne Pub this beer poured thick, black and oily with a medium sized brown head. The aroma was strong, bitter and roasty with coffee and floral hops prominent. The flavor was sweetish, roasty, malty and almost gritty with a rough espresso element. Hints of chocolate, smoke and ripe fruits intermingle. The finish turned a bit dry with a long roasty coffee presence. The body was fairly thick. The alcohol was well hidden. Well done.