Name: Great Divide: Yeti Imperial Stout
Brewed In: Denver, CO
Type / ABV: Imperial Stout / 9.5%
Bought at/Price: Binny's / $6.99 22oz
Dennis: Normally I don't judge a beer by the color of it that much, but this beer has one heck of a deep black body, it's actually pretty impressive. The smells are pretty much the standard fare, sweet with some toasty dark chocolate hints. Taste wise this is an impressive, if not standard, imperial stout. Strong malts, deep dark chocolates, but over all a little light honestly. The real shine to this is the hop bitterness that comes through, imho. A good stout, but with a little bit of a low alcohol for my book.
Jen: If I judged this by the color, it would be a 5, but that is not the only thing I judged a beer on. The nose is of roasted malts and mild hops. The taste is not quite what I would expect in a stout. It starts off with the normal roasted malts followed by a nice smooth dark chocolate and toasty coffee flavors. The ending of this stout is what gets me, it is strongly hopped. I would have expected a nice mouth coating of a stout from the way it poured, but the flavors don't seem to stick, except for the hops. Not too bad, and it has it's good points, but for me I will stick to Avery's The Czar or Bell's Expedition Stout (if we could still get it here in Illinois!)
Rating: G