Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout

Pours dark brown with a tan head. Aroma of big roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, some bitter notes. Taste is similar, lots of roast, also some bitter hops, and some light fruit. Body is full and finish is bitter Overall, a great beer and a great imperial.

Ahhh just as I remembered it. Steal the glass night 4/28/09 at capital ale house innsbrook. Nice full bodied deceptively drinkable stout. Strong chocolate and coffee with some toffee on the nose. Also getting a pronounced yet even smell of roasted malts. On the palate you get sweet chocolate, malts, very smooth coffee, ever so slight caramel and toffee on the finish as well. Does what a great imperial stout should. One of my definite favorites. Word of warning though as it warms up it gets even more drinkable with sweetness starting to come out even more.

22oz bottle. Pours oily black with a big brown head. Aroma is of hops, roasted malt, chocolate, dark fruit, coffee, and grain. Taste starts off with very bitter, biting hops. Beneath the hops is a huge backbone of roasted malt and caramel. There is also lots of dry chocolate, roasted coffee, grain, dark fruit, and tobacco. Mouthfeel is thick and oily as expected. It sticks to the gums heavily. Each sip ends on notes of lingering roasted coffee and chocolate. Finish is very dry, almost wooden. Amazing how easy it is to drink, though for sure it would be a sipper. An excellent beer.

I usually take an hour to savor an imperial stout. This beer was too easy to drink to do so, despite it’s high bitterness and high maltiness.

Bottle. Pours a deep dark black with a large heavy chocolate brown head. Raisins, molasses, chocolate, roast, stone fruit. Medium to thick mouthfeel. Starts off a little sweet, but is full of nice roast flavors. Finishes with a bit of warming alcohol (aged this one about 6 months hoping it would mellow out a little bit, still a bit hot though), and a smooth roast bitterness.

650mL bomber thanks to Jan Primus for our 3rd KW group tasting. Thanks Jan! Pours a nice deep dark brown with a small mocha cap. The aroma on this one is really nice, sweet chocolate malts, minor hop presence, nothing too bold just very well mixed and enticing. The flavour doesn’t let you down, same as above with some nice sharp roasty bitterness to compliment the ample malty sweetness. A very strong and tasty aftertaste lingers for a while on the palate. Very well integrated and presented, this one was quite nice!

Pours pitch black with a nice thick, chunky, and tan head. Aroma contains loads of chocolate as well as coffee and some hints of hops. Tastes of bitter coffee, chocolate, and fruit. There is a most peculiar earthy piney character coupled with some citrus to this beer which I did not expect. The bitter hops are very noticeable as the beer goes down. A decent warming.

I had this on tap. Pours dark and forbidding with a coffee colored head. A think viscus brew that roles around the mouth like ball barrings. That being said it has a terrific balance of malt and hops. Big beer but only slightly sweet with the malt contributing big chocolate and cocoa. The hops on the finish also piney probable centennial. Try this beer.