Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout

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

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.

Cold 22oz bottle (3.5 years old): Pours a solid, opaque, dark chocolate brown color with a diminishing milk chocolate, creamy head. Aroma is of rich, roasted malts, chocolate, fruit, spice and earth. Taste is of rich, roasted malts well blended with robust hops, coffee and chocolate. Ending contains spice, earth and alcohol notes. Medium to heavy bodied, smooth and creamy, with good carbonation.

Bomber (three to four years old): Pours jet black with a thin brown head, aroma has huge chocolate, coffee and pine with notes of oranges, starts and ends bitter with a long bitter smoky chocolate/caramel ending. Thick bodied with oily mouthfeel, mild carbonation and just plain yummy.