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Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
Great Divide Brewing Company
- From:
- Great Divide Brewing Company
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
Ranked #836 - ABV:
- 9.5%
- Score:
- 94
Ranked #1,926 - Avg:
- 4.25 | pDev: 9.65%
- Reviews:
- 1,689
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 26, 2023
- Added:
- Aug 09, 2004
- Wants:
- 381
- Gots:
- 975
Imperial stout aged on new French and American oak chips.
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Ratings by goschool:
Reviewed by goschool from California
4.2/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
4.2/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
22 ounce bottle purchased for $13.99 at Lone Hill Liquor in San Dimas, California.
Appearance: The pour is thick and jet black in color with an enormous frothy pale brown head.
Smell: The nose is super roasty with vanilla, dark chocolate, cappuccino, pine, and a healthy dose of booze.
Taste: The flavor profile starts out with vanilla beans, oak, and dark malts. The roasted malts eventually take over from the initial sweet bourbon characteristics and bring espresso and dark chocolate into the mix. If those flavors weren't enough, a blast of bitter hops finishes off the taste. As the beer warms, there is much more lush chocolate in the mid-palate and the hoppy finish is more bitter than ever. I want to give it 4.5, but it's a little too.... oh, how do I put this? It's very complex, yet all of the different phases share the common attribute of being big, slightly-harsh, and aggressive.
Mouthfeel: It's full-bodied and equally creamy and oily, coating my mouth through the long aftertaste.
Drinkability: It's a great example of a barrel-aged RIS, but it's too big and bitter for its own good drinkabilitywise. It is a tasty daunting task.
Mar 31, 2008Appearance: The pour is thick and jet black in color with an enormous frothy pale brown head.
Smell: The nose is super roasty with vanilla, dark chocolate, cappuccino, pine, and a healthy dose of booze.
Taste: The flavor profile starts out with vanilla beans, oak, and dark malts. The roasted malts eventually take over from the initial sweet bourbon characteristics and bring espresso and dark chocolate into the mix. If those flavors weren't enough, a blast of bitter hops finishes off the taste. As the beer warms, there is much more lush chocolate in the mid-palate and the hoppy finish is more bitter than ever. I want to give it 4.5, but it's a little too.... oh, how do I put this? It's very complex, yet all of the different phases share the common attribute of being big, slightly-harsh, and aggressive.
Mouthfeel: It's full-bodied and equally creamy and oily, coating my mouth through the long aftertaste.
Drinkability: It's a great example of a barrel-aged RIS, but it's too big and bitter for its own good drinkabilitywise. It is a tasty daunting task.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by DLG2 from Massachusetts
4.17/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.17/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
For me this is a great change of pace beer. I drink mostly light beers but I need a change up after 3 or 4 light beers, one of these stouts is a perfect change. Then back to a few light beers. I love the flavor and everything else about this beer. I know this isn’t the proper wine snob way to rate a beer, I just can’t do that.
Jan 08, 2023Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
4.4/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.4/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
On tap at Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. Pitch black colour, low brown head. Lovely aroma of oak, roasted malts, dark chocolate and coffee, hints of leather. Roasty flavour, dark malts, coffee, oak, hints of chocolate and liquorice. Nice bitterness in the finish.
Mar 19, 2021
Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout from Great Divide Brewing Company
Beer rating:
94 out of
100 with
4659 ratings
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