Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout

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

Bottle. Black with a large brown foam. Aromas are rich dark coffee with bitter chocolate and lots of pine hops. Flavours are strong black coffee with bitter grapefruit. Quite green pine with a herbal, spicy dry finish. Its quite simple but very well put together

Bottle. Pours a black colour with a small tan head. Hoppy aroma with some hints of pine needles and chocolate. Malty hoppy flavor with hints of licourice and chocolate. Long hoppy finish. Very lovely imperial stout.

A big thanks to BrooklynBoy and JPDIPSO for this style. Pours blacker than the Ace of Spades, with a big deep brown head and great prolonged lacing. Aroma of big coffee, malt, chocolate, fruit, and cognac. Tastes malty, with tons of coffee, chocolate, nuts, and a rauchy roastiness. There is also some tart cherry flavor, milk stouty flavor, and hops in the finishing taste. Great mouthfeel. This one could be the TWIN of the Stone 2002 RIP, but it is ever so slightly drier at the finish. After two of these, not only will you see Yeti’s, but I suppose the Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot, and Jimmy Hoffa as well. Just an amazing brew, and one of the Big 3 that will kick your ass and take your name from Great Divide. Maybe if you feed your girlfriend one of these, you’ll get to see her Great Divide. It’s worth a try. Cheers.

Black with a lasting brown head. Rich and complex aroma of chocolate, licorice, port, dried fruit. Sweet flavour with all kinds of burned notes, followed by a solid hop bitterness.

Deep black stout, thick and molassy. Nice hops and chocolate aroma. intense hops and rich chocolate, sweet malts. Alcohol burn, but rich bodied. (July 31 at Indiana Microbrewers Festival)

12oz bottle. Head is initially average sized, frothy, brown, fully lasting. Body is absolutely opaque black (flashlight tested). Aroma is moderately malty (roasted grain, dark chocolate, caramel), moderately hoppy (resin, grapefruit), with notes of vanilla, dust/chalk, char/ash, and alcohol. Flavor is heavily sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Finish is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, moderately to heavily bitter. Full body, velvety texture, lively/soft carbonation, moderately alcoholic. Well, it’s been 5 years, so obviously it’s time to re-rate. It’s still relying too much on hops for the aroma, its only real weak point (not just due to the hops, but its rubbery/charred/dusty undercurrent), but otherwise it’s quite nice. This is right on the edge of greatness...all they have to do is work on making the malt character more complex and rich, and back off a little on the hop aroma (and bitterness as well, just a touch), and they would literally have a world beater.

22 oz bottle. A dark orangish small head tops the tarry body; massive lacing coats the snifter. A powerful hoppy aroma emerges; oranges, cedar and molasses vie for dominance. Heavy carbonation, bitter mocha espresso rides you roughly through the flavor journey; its not easy, but worth the trip. Very long finish. Close to the McNeills which finished off our Sunday sampling but not quite as potent, flavor-wise. Still very impressive and I will look forward to a return journey.

Bottle. Creamy light brown good mostly lasting head. Dark brown colour. Fantastic chocolate aroma and flavor. Very oily palate. A very good imperial.