Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout

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

Draft. A pitch black beer with a lazing brown head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of roasted malt as well as some coffee; espresso roast. The flavor is has strong notes of dark milk chocolate, vanilla, and espresso coffee, leading to a very bitter finish, where the coffee lingers.

Draught at Stockholm Beer Festival. Very black, creamy brownish head. Pungent aroma of coffee and vanilla. Sweet and full bodied with dense rounded mouthfeel. Massive, yet not overly assaulting. Warming and tarry with vanilla and licorice to got with the coffee. Long salty bitterness. Like having everything at once. Surprisingly to me it works very well.

From tap at Ørsted Ølbar and Ølbaren. Pours pitch black with a slowly collapsing tan head. Dense coffee herbal and roasted malt with a distinct wooden and somewhat hoppy note. Sweet chocolate and nice coffee flavoured, distinct liqourice note too. Lasting roasted coffe and mild acidic flavoured with a distinct hoppy side. Smooth coffee and hoppy finish. The oak really mellows this one out. Nice one.

<b>Draught @ STBOWF. Stockholm Beer Festival 2008, Sweden.</b>
Clear medium to dark black color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, dark chocolate, coffee notes, vanilla, wood notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration. Very nice and easy to drink, love this ;0) Body is medium to full, texture is oily and smooth, carbonation is soft - flat. [260908]

Draught at GABF 2008. Black coloured with a small beige head. Roasted aroma of coffee and chocolate with notes of oak and hops. Roasted flavour of coffee, chocolate and hops with notes of oak. Roasted finish.

Name: Yeti, Oak, Espresso
Date: June 18, 2008
Mode: Draft
Source: Brick Store Pub
Appearance: black, fine tan head, solid lace, mirrored surface
Aroma: dark chocolate and espresso aroma, touch of dark caramel and vanilla sweetness
Body: creamy body
Flavor: big roasted and coffee flavor, lots of burnt bitterness, rich dark chocolate eventually balances out the roasted, very little of any vanilla or caramel sweetness makes it through, long bitter finish
Overall: the creamy body along with the rich chocolate and coffee eventually combine to form a mocca shake

Name: Yeti, Oak, Espresso
Date: March 07, 2009
Mode: draft
Source: brick store
Aroma: aroma is a complex blend of caramel, roasted, oak, espresso, vanilla
Flavor: lots more oak in the flavor to complement the roast and coffee characters

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **4

(22oz bottle) Large milkshakey dark brown head atop black body, nice lacing. Aroma is moderately sweet, rich coffee, dark and milk chocolate, some vanilla, light vinous. Taste is moderately sweet, espresso, some vanilla, vinous, roast, chocolate syrup. Light burnt in the finish. Remarkably smooth medium-full body. Alcohol more implied than really felt.

On Tap at the GABF Colorado Convention Center, Denver 11/10/2008 Fruit and roast aromas. Small tan head. Black very strong in alcohol fruity and hoppy with a crisp bitter and slightly dry coffee roast finish.