Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout

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

Mild lacing, minimal tan head, dark brown body. Roasted malt aroma with notes of chocolate and coffee. The oak isn’t as powerful and the body wasn’t as full as I anticipated.

Pours pitch black with a decent tan head that quickly dissipates, leaving a nice lacing. Very well balanced complex aroma of cofffee, chocolat, toffee, nuts, roasted malt, fruits and some alcohol. Flavor is very bitter with some sweetness lingering along. Very nice complexity. Decent bitter long finish and good carbonation.

Bottle. Roasted chocolate/hop aroma. Deep dark body with sticky medium tan head. Flavor is filled with a roasted malt/chocolate flavor with hints of hops and a slight oak aged aftertaste. Very complex and well balanced, hides the alcohol well

Pours very dark, almost syrupy near black, small white head. Strong bitter flavor, unusual for stout, but that’s not a bad thing. Flavors of chocolate, carmel, and tons of oak. Finishes clean. Very good, complex beer.

Pours black with a thin tan head and some clings. Aromas of chocolate, oak and caramel. Tastes of coffee and chocolate with some bitter peppery hops and an oaky, bourbon finish.

(br-btl bu/pu-lbl slv-foil, 22oz, 75IBUs, 9.5%)

opq-bk, thin-br-head, ^eff, ^sticky-full-body(thick and sticky bot not creamy), ^co2.

dark-malt §silage ^warm-alchl-cmplx aroma.

T1 sweet-dark-fruity-malt earthy,
T2 ^chclt-malt co2 §earthy-hop §oaky,
T3 alchl-warm burnt-malt,
Tf hoppier-barleywine.

drinkability limited by sweet-maltiness and co2 and alchl.
needs more leafy-hops and less burnt-malt IMO.

This poured black and oil like. Mocha/toffee cream head, thick and frothy. The aroma was of chocolate soaked in brandy. Very sweet, a good malt backbone, nice roasted hints bringing out coffee tones spiked with milk. The oak really brought out many vanilla and caramel tones along with strong espresso, dark cocoa, ripe red plums and bruised pears. The mouthfeel was creamy, smooth. Very warming, a nice carbonation, yet seemed a little heavy. Creamy and chewy. This is one beautiful beer.