Beer – #234 – Great Divide – Yeti Imperial Stout
Brought only on it’s name, because I couldn’t find a BigFoot I follow up the Alesmith extravaganza Speedway stout with Great Divide – Yeti Imperial Stout.
Brewed by Great Divide Brewing Company in the style of a Imperial Stout and that’s in the mile high Denver, Colorado USA
ok yes I need a haircut. Tomorrow. Anyway the beer……
Great Divide’s Yeti Imperial Stout is an onslaught of the senses. An almost viscous, inky-black brew, Yeti opens with a massive, roasty, chocolate, coffee malt flavor that eventually gives way to rich toffee and burnt caramel notes. Packed with an enormous quantity of American hops, Yeti’s hop profile reveals a slightly citrusy, piney, and wonderfully dry hoppy finish. 75 International Bittering Units (IBUs).
9.5% ABV in a 355ml bottle , in NZ 2.66 standard drink units. and yes 75 IBU thingumy things which could be a bittery tang.
Yeasty bread chocolate on opening, Syrupy deep dark black syrupy pour with a persistent thinnish head of brown. Aroma is a comfortable roasted malt.
Then to summarise my first impressions, bit less punchy, and less balanced than it could be, oh and its a bit short of length.
Carries it’s aroma really well, but has a persistent sourness, doesn’t have a big mouthfeel, and there is no lingering. There’s not a lot of profile either, it might be a one trick thing. Mostly I get an after of a sourness, which isn’t what you really want, and there isn’t a warmness that should come along after this gets warmer in the glass.
So then, the pdubyah-o-meter, which is moping only to 7, and that’s “good” and I’m giving it a free pass having followed a barnstormer beer.
At this moment, and in this place. it’s isn’t all that and a bag of crisps. The yeti is still then a bit undiscovered as a thing.
Related articles
- Colorado’s Top Ten Beers: Yeti Imperial Stout (mensjournal.com)
- Great Divide Brewing Co. Yeti Imperial Stout (tobysbeerreviews.wordpress.com)
- Great Divide And The Yeti Surprise (cravedfw.com)
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