Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout

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

Pours a very dark brown, almost black, with a tall brown, very full head. Aroma of toffee, roasted malts, and oak. Creamy body with a sweet light chocolate oak flavor at first with a very smooth transition to a delicious woody, roasted coffee finish.

Pours black with a thick brown head. Aroma is roast coffee, oak, and vanilla. Flavor is bittersweet chocolate and oak with some coffee on the finish. Very creamy mouthfeel. It feels like the oak mellowed out the flavors of the regular yeti. Its a great beer, but the flavors are a little too dull to be exceptional. Not quite as good as the regular yeti.

The pour is beautifully black with a short but substantial chocolate brown head. A nose into the snifter gives off roasted dark stout malts surrounded by an intense oak aroma with highlights of chocolate and coffee. The beer is amazingly heavy but smooth over the tongue, a notable presence with each drink. The taste is absolutely incredible. Roasted stout malts give it a nice firm platform to work on, your tongue will tingle with the bitter of smooth milk chocolate, vanilla extract, and black coffee. The oak does not translate from the nose of the beer into the mouth, but the bottle claims that the vanilla taste is imparted by the oak. If anything, the oak does seem to mellow out the normally intense style known as Imperial Stouts. The finish is an uncharacteristic yet somehow fitting, strong hop bitterness. It lingers for a second as if it coated your entire mouth with a thin oil. An absolutely stunning brew.

Poured black with a dark brown herad. Aroma - malt and bourbon. Oak and bourbon notes dominated up front. Sweet malt, mocha and some bitterness as it warmed. Excellent.

Pours a dark black with a thin tan head. Nice coffee, chocolate aroma and a little hops fights through as well. Very good flavor, a little bit of a bitter bite. Has some nice sweet vanilla in the flavor, but some great coffee and chocolate flavor. I love that I can find this beer and get such a solid product for just $7.99. Having a good Friday night with this beer and the Bourbon Angel’s Share I had earlier.

This is one tasty brew! Pours a deep black color with a nice tan head. Aroma is of vanilla, roasted malts and coffee. Taste is very nice with good vanilla flavor and biting alcohol. Very nice mouthfeel with more taste of vanilla in the finish. This is one monster of a stout and would enjoy it again.

much better than the last bottle I tried...thanks to who shared this bottle with me at the alesmith release... nice young(?) oak nose and vanilla notes......on nose tastes like a great imp stout....kinda reminds me of older stone RIS great stuff

Pours a dark black with a very dark brown head. Looks a little like motor oil. Has a very hoppy and roasty aroma. I think I could taste the vanilla but it was subtle in my opinion. Very good beer overall. I drank this out of a shaker because i don’t own a snifter.