Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout

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

This is a truly pitch black beer with a huge, delicious, creamy and brown head. The aroma has notes of coffee, dark roasted malt and caramel. The flavour is fantastic!! It has loads o dark roasted malt, hops and before the big hoppy symphony closes the ball, there are a lot of notes: Sweetness, caramel, coffee, nougat, licorice and chocolate. It’s very complex and exciting and worthy of a high score...!

Bottle. Black colour with a baige head. Light roasted sweet coffee chocolat hoppy aroma and taste, light alcoholic. Medium to full body and a sweet soft finish.

Bottle bought @ Ølkonsortiet, Aalborg. Pours a thick black colour with a small brown head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, dark fruits, chocolate and some alcohol. Great mouthfeel. The flavour is quite sweet with roasted malt and caramel, chocolate, coffee, dark fruits, alcohol and bit of smoke. Long lasting sweet roasty finish. Great brew but I do prefer the oak aged version.

Bottle. Almost opague, dark head. Licorice and mango in the aroma. Sweet and full bodied. Licorice and roastflavor, immediately followed by loads of fresh earthy and flowery hops. Citrus in the far background. There is a difference in character between the oak aged and the "plain" version. The oak version is perhaps more complex, the "plain" version has more hop caharacter and a more pronounced aroma. The quality in both cases is outstanding.

A Mes rate: 355ml bottle from Utobeer.
Superb looking beer. Espresso black with a very impressive tan head. Black cherry and Jamaican Ginger Cake aroma with a tonne of chocolate and some resinous hops. A jolly good smell. Flavour is nothing like as good. Off kilter and no balance. Bitter dark chocolate dominated and far too rich to be pleasant. Huge burn on the way down. Lingering sprucey hop aftertaste really saves the day though. All 75 IBUs are clear as hell. Unusual and, like the oak aged variant, a little over rated in my opinion.

Bottle, bought @ Kolding Vinhandel.
[my 100th american rating]
Pitch black pour with a rather small creamy brown head. Powerful aroma, roasted, burnt caramel, a little coffe and much dark chocolate - perhaps cocoa. Extremely creamy and full mouthfeel. Flavour is slightly oaky (even if this is not the oak-aged one), lots of chocolate, a little warming viniousness, some vanilla and lots of roasted toffee. A powewrful presence of hops in the finish.

22oz bottle. Poured a dark black color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of roast, chocolate, hoppy, dark fruits, and light coffee. Tastes of roast, hops, chocolate, dark fruits, coffee, and caramel. Lacing left on the glass.

Black body with a very dark brown head that sticks like a rolemodel. Quite hoppy aroma comparable to a storm king with a deep maltiness of milk chocolate and light coffee notes. Taste is immensely balanced with a touch of everything required in a good imperial stout. Initially mild chocolate to start up and quickly fades into a very dry roastiness, hoppy finish. Body is thick, ultra-creamy, pretty carbonated. Very neat imperial with a stupendous balance and as much flavor as it should contain. Thanks to Hopsrus for that one!