Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout

35cl Bottle, bbe 5/08. Pitch black, creamy, lightly lacing mocca head. Strong minty wood chip aroma with dark chocolate and dry coffee. Immensely mentholey flavor, burned malts, coffee, little hops in the finish. Full bodied, smoooooth palate. All the chocolatey roastiness gets a bit lost under the overpowering menthol, but still a great brew. And omg when they put it on oak!

Incredibly black pour, and a thick creamy brown head. Aroma of insanely roasted malt, lots of coffee, and some chocolate, and a nice tinge of smoke, and soy sauce. Flavour is intense, and very bitter. Lots of roasted malt, and loads of coffee, with a huge burnt aftertaste. Extremely bitter finish with a lingering coffee note, wow, intense, and complex.

In the bottle from By the Bottle in Vancouver, WA.
Pours pitch black, like chocolate syrup, with a medium/small, dark brown head. Looks like creme from an espresso. Aroma is dark chocolate covered espresso beans next to a campfire. Taste is sensational! Coats you palate from beginning to end. Extremely well-rounded. Hops are still having a go at it despite the incredible dark malts. Very thick mouth feel but still pleasant to drink. Great hop finish and hardly even noticing the 75 IBUs. Excellent beer! Can’t wait to try the Oak-Aged Yeti sitting in my fridge.

750 ml bottle. Nice dark appearance with dark tan head. Very assertive hop aroma and flavor. This overpowered the malt flavors a bit. Has a nice, roasty flavor with complex dark fruit flavors present. I get just a touch of vanilla coming through. I prefer the oak aged version, but this isn’t bad. I suspect this bottle is fairly new and the hop presence should blend in better with age. Still, I’d buy this one again.

12oz, bottle. Deep, black pour. There’s so much flavor going on it’s hard to nail it down. Definitely has some coffee or even chocolate going on, mad hops and finishes very nicely. I’ve had two and the second was better than the first. A little less in-your-face than the North Coast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout.

12oz from Sam’s, Durham. Much as I prefer the oak-aged version, the Yeti is nothing to fuck with. Nice café au lait head on top of this rich, chewy black pour. Thick and sludgy, just like the Yeti might move through the arctic wastes. Big notes of burnt coffee and dark chocolate, very inviting. A lively hop presence is there when the beer’s young, giving the brew even more of a bitter edge (though somehow not at the expense of the malts). Very satisfying when you’re in the mood for an especially aggressive imperial stout.

Pours a deep dark brown. The nose is rich chocolate malts. Comes across the palate very thick, with rich chocolate and notes of coffee. The after taste lingers a little; a very dry beer.

Bottle from BSF, GBBF ’08. Very dark brown with a beige head. Appealing roasted malt aroma. Thick, oily dark chocolate mouthfeel with flavours of dates, plums. liquorice and leather. Intense bitterness at the finish. Luxury beer.