Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout

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

Bottle. Stored for about one year. Black color with a brown head and good lacing. Aroma: Roasted and sweet malt, american hops, coffee, chocolate, black currant, wood, faint vanilla and alcohol notes. Flavor: Roasted/burned, sweet, chocolate, espresso, licorice, black currant, oakwood, vanilla, faint alcohol and a bit of hop bitterness. Smooth and full-bodied. Very nice.

Almost completely opaque black, Espresso and Coffee notes, with a mild vanilla finish and a touch of hops on the tail end.

Pours nearly pitch-black with coffee head that dissipates, but the lacing is excellent. Aroma of roasted malts and chocolate. Really strong flavors, but not overpowering because of the balance - I get some molasses and espresso, a lot of burnt coffee bitterness, but also that touch of vanilla from the oak. Well-masked alcohol and a great creamy mouthfeel.

Very thick almost pitch black pour with very small dark head. Big flavor of roastiness, oak, molasses, espresso and bready malt. Very appropriate and not overpowering mouthfeel.

New York Jan 08 Bottle. Drank Rome Ago 08 in Balloon. Pours thick black with a marvelous compact persistent head. Wonderful aromas predominantly Dark Chocolate, Coffee mixed. Incredibly Well balanced in the mouth Dark Chocolate coffee, bitter but not aggressive, great persistent bitter after taste that comes back. A great imperial stout .

pour is very black. scent is of burnt roast and malts with some alcohol smell as well. taste is of coffee and burntness. oak can be tasted as well. very smooth finish. awesome beer. I would purchase again.

Pour is thick engine oil black with a small dark tan head. Aroma is of sweet malt, caramel, oak, light coffee, chocolate, and a light burnt character. Can you say complex? Brew is very full bodied with a strong oak and toast character finishing with more sweet malt, toffee and strong hops right at the end. Very smooth mouthfeel and a dang good brew. With further review, I get a hint of coffee in the flavor as well. I wouldn’t mind having this brew around for a few more years to see what happens. I’ll be looking for this brew again!

Drinking this is like eating those incredible delicacies at the state fair. Something like bacon, dipped in chocolate, battered an deep fried. So many incredible flavors, each one decadently good in its own right, all put together. Fantastically good, but only in moderation. But there is actually a kind of internal moderation. Each great but overpowering flavor seems to cancel the others out so that no one overpowers the other, or you.