Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout

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

Opaque, lasting dark brown head. Very complex nose of roasted malts, chocolate, liquorice, and even some lactic and fruity notes. Malty and bitter flavour, again lots of complexity. Thick mouthfeel and lasting bitter finish. Just a tad to bitter in finish for me, but apart from that really nice. I think i like this one just as much as the oaked aged version, but i’ll have to try that one again to be sure. Great brew from a great brewery.

2005 bottle courtesy of Retorp. Pours a dark brown to black color with a thin tan head. Aroma is sweet and malty with notes of wood, smoke, coffee, ripe dark fruits, some smoke and roasted overtones. Flavor is malty, sweet and full of roasted chocolate and coffee notes with notes of ripe dark fruit, molasses, hints of tobacco and toffee. Generally medium body with a pleasing chocolate and coffee finish.

Bottle. Pours a dark creamy and thick brew, with a nice light brown head. The aroma is hints of fruit, chocolate and a damp forest. The taste is creamy and rich; coffee, chocolate, burnt malts, some citrus and raisin, a woody and smoked taste, and some hops. Really a great drink; a bit of alcohol warming, but just a nice hint. Simply great. Re-rate: an amazing brew. Kind of like a imperial dry stout, lots of roasted flavors and rich molasses. A bitterness on the edges of your palate throughout. On of my favorites.

Basically, to me this is a milder form of the NC Old Rasputin. The bitternees ia a little less, and the flavor is a little less.

Pour is beautiful I am inclined to mention. Jet black with long lasting, thick milkshake head. Looks yummy. roasted coffee, chocolate, sweet malts come first with piney resinous hops liingering in the foreground. Initially, chocolate and rich fruit cake come through strong , quickly followed by smoke, and coffee, and culminates with a bitter tinge. Not as smooth as it could be. I guess that’s just a preference, but it is my rating. On the whole, very good balance. I liked this more than the Oak Aged version. Less smoke overtones in my opinion. I dont know shit though. Anyway, the regular Yeti is choice. sorry if you read that whole thing.

Bottle. Pours motor oil black with 2 finger brown head. Nose is molasses, dark chocolate, roasted coffee beans and alcohol. Palate is creamy with brown sugar, caramel malt, roasted barley, cocoa and coffee. Slight hop bite in the finish. Great stout – just as good as the Oaked version.

From a 22 oz. bomber bottle with a blurb along the left side of label, no year or freshness date I could find. Poured a lightly ruby hued dark chocolate brown with a rocky, creamy tan head, small amount of ringed sticking. Aromas of dark ripe berry fruitiness, hints of vanilla, coffee with a light chocolate, and small whiffs of alcohol. Good moderate carbonation and a chewy, creamy smooth, slick, full bodied mouthfeel. Smooth, easy sipping, satisfying taste, roasted chocolate mingled with coffee, a subtle berry fruitiness, a little vanilla and molasses, a citric hop bite towards the end, the alcohol is in the background and warming in the palate, and a dry roasted malty, fruity finish. A really nice RIS from Great Divide, a pleasant drinkability, very nice on a cold, windy midwest evening.

(on bottle) Black as a grave, funny for a beer named after a snow-monster. Toffee-coloured head. Strong aroma of coffee beans and salted fish(?). Fullmalted taste, quite bitter, could be more smooth, but it seems lik the BU is too high for the alcohol and malts to handle. guess Ungstrup can bye ´em all of Jeppe without me crying.