Yeti White Stout
Old Yale Brewing Co.

 

 

 

 

650 ml bomber
golden, with white head
Very grassy, sweet vanilla, alcohol
taste, alcohol, grassy, green coffee biterness
lite carbonation
maybe I've got a bad batch, but would not recommend, just too much grassy-alcohol flavor

Pours a deep gold with a fairly thick white head. Leaves great lacing. Aroma is mostly chocolate and cocoa. Very little hop aroma. Taste is great - smooth lots of chocolate and cocoa. Finishes with a touch of bitterness which cleans up the sweet notes well. Moderately light carbonation and a smooth slick mouth feel like a stout should have. A delicious and very drinkable beer. I'll have another!

Old Yale Brewing 'Yeti White Stout' @ 8.0% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $6.45
A-pour is a pale gold from the bottle to an amber in the glass with a medium size fluffy white head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-creamy coffee
T-crisp & clean white stout with a dry coffee bitter finish
MF-ok carbonation , big medium body
Ov-interesting beer ,
prost LampertLand

Appearance - Pours a medium amber with three fingers of creamy white head.

Smell - roasted malts, wood smokiness, cocoa, hint of coffee, hint of vanilla, and hint of earthy and leafy hops.

Taste - The roasted malts and wood smokiness dominate the brew upfront. The cocoa, hint of coffee, vanilla, and earthy and leafy hops help to finish the brew off.

Mouthfeel - Medium to full bodied with light carbonation. Finishes with a pleasant silkiness and smoothness.

Overall - A unique twist to the American stout style. This brew possesses the elements of a stout in a lighter appearance. I liked the smokiness as it added a nice dimension of flavours. Another winner from this underrated brewery.

L: Slightly darker than a pale yellow with a white head.

S: Coffee and chocolate with a slight expresso and cocoa.

T: Chocolate and coffee with a slight hop presence actually pretty good.

F: Light body mouth feel but it tastes like a stout.

O: not as good as Steamworks White. Stout but still a really good beer.

 

650ml bottle - another pale stout, its colour the only thing not typically stoutish about it. I do rather like the tagline: 'Light Colour, dark intentions'. Heh.

This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some dense underbrush lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.

It smells of acrid artisanal coffee, bittersweet chocolate, grainy pale and caramel malt, indistinct underripe citrus, and some leafy, herbal, and slightly perfumed floral hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, rich dark chocolate, equally creamy cafe-au-lait, vanilla cookies, hunkered-down fleshy citrus, and more leafy, herbal, and green floral hoppiness. The 16-proof booze does well to mostly keep to the metaphorical shadows, in the vein of the titular beast.

The carbonation is fairly understated in its generally structural frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and pretty much smooth, only the coffee maybe spoiling the party for this real world non-participant. It finishes off-dry, the chocolate, coffee, and vanilla morphing into some sort of Starbucks knockoff beverage 'experience'.

I gotta say, this is one of the better examples of this hokey sub-style where the whole 'close your eyes, and you won't know the difference' mantra really applies. A well-rounded, and very flavourful coffee stout is what we have here - it's just been afflicted with albinism, of a sort. Worth trying out, even beyond the curio factor.