Kommenter Beer Barrel: Great Divide Yeti

Since it is the middle of summer and everyone loves refreshing, lighter beers, let’s discuss some motherfucking imperial stout.  Also, since it is a sloooooowwww news day, I am posting this early.  Away we go to the land of STRONG BEER TAEKS.

 

NAME: Yeti Imperial Stout

SOURCE: Great Divide Brewing Company, Denver, Colorado (Just east of Coors Field.  Turn right at the large groups of homeless people!)

TYPE: Imperial Stout

ABV.: 9.5%

REVIEW:  All hail the Yeti!  This is definitely my favorite stout.  I’ll let the good folks at Great Divide take it away:

It starts with big, roasty malt flavor that gives way to rich caramel and toffee notes. YETI gets its bold hop character from an enormous quantity of American hops. It weighs in at a hefty 75 IBUs.

It also comes in many varieties:  Barrel Aged, Oatmeal, Chocolate Oak Aged, Espresso Oak Aged, and Regular Oak Aged.  All of these varieties are excellent.

Because it is a slow news day, here is an over-the-top discovery channel video about the Russian Yeti.  Also, here are some yetis (also known as “wookiees”) that I frequently see at the hippie concerts I attend.  These people are the worst.

GRADE:  A+
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BrettFavresColonoscopy

As a countervailing data point, the bartender at one of the Denver bars you recommended said he thought Yeti sucked, but he loves Chocolate Yeti.

/end transmission

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Grummmmble

Yeti is great, like drinking the most delicious dark loam the earth ever produced. I don’t recommend starting your drinking night with it though.

WhyEaglesWhy

I really wanted to try this. I did a search, and the only Australian retailer that has it wants $15/bottle plus $15 shipping for up to a case.

Sigh.

Old School Zero

So buy a case.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I’m thinking wait for your next trip back….. unless you have starting quarterback money.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

If we can do a beer barrel on Tuesday, how about a Today in Debbie?

http://40.media.tumblr.com/b3ff6bde5830ab0bfd2c1b598ed9b00a/tumblr_ngviyeoBdt1tq82oxo1_1280.jpg

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Sill Bimmons

jersey09.ru

Buy at your own risk.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

The three homeless people? Try the Mission Brewery in San Diego; it has a tent city….. but also damn fine beers.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Walk around there all the time, yes, more than three, but not near the number I’ve seen elsewhere. Seems like now days there is more families.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh
Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

I’ve been adding my “reviews” to the comments; didn’t want to clog up people with real posts.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Quick survey of my “likes” on DFO; apparently I’m overwhelming in favor of beer, food, and women. Sorry for the surprise.

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Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

Fantastic; also Great Divide is a fun place to have a beer, cheap sampler glasses, strong pours, a weird mix of people, buzzed bartenders, etc. Suggest eating lunch or dinner before you go.

I find the Wookies pictured generally a harmless, if stinky bunch; I find it is the younger amateur drinkers/drug takers to be far more hazardous and annoying.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Nooooooooo!!!!! I wanted it to be Rex!

https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/633781651789758464

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

They forgot the Raiders in that notice.

Lothar of the Hill People

This sounds worth looking for. Are you familiar with New Holland’s Dragon’s Milk bourbon barrel stout? That’s my go-to heavy hitter nowadays.

Jethro

I recently had Dragon’s Milk. I liked it quite a bit. Felt like someone had caved my head in with the blunt edge of a hatchet come the morning, but still…

Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood

Dragon’s Milk is pretty good stuff. It’ll take the hair right offa your ass though, so go easy…

Lothar of the Hill People

All that Gore is gonna get deleted…

Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood

What about this one? Is this gore safe?

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Lothar of the Hill People

I hate Tipper Gore with the fire of a thousand suns. She is the face of the PMRC, and my high school Megadeth-fueled rage at her has never faded.

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If he makes that face any harder, his eyes will transform into mouths.

Sill Bimmons

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Jethro

He REALLY enjoys the smell of his own farts.

Sill Bimmons
Sill Bimmons

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Why Thank You Eddie

9.5%? Ape would be flinging his poo for sure. Any word from Hominoidea emeritus?

Enrico Pallazzo

IMO everyone participating in this discussion is Up For Whatever.

Sill Bimmons

Sadly, no.

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

After several of these at 9.5% yes, not to mention strikingly attractive AND funny.

scotchnaut

So I was off work for a week and left some apple cores in my waste basket-this is an open thread, right?-and I now have a shit ton of fruit flies in my office. I was told that flies are attracted to foul-smelling things so I printed off a ton of Horatio’s comments and spread them all over my desk. No luck. (Thanks for nothing, Horatio!) Any ideas?

Old School Zero

Summon Fek?

scotchnaut

So you think I have dead kittens just lying around my house waiting to be used for the Fek Summoning? I’ll have you know that the dead kittens lying around my house have a social schedule that will not be interrupted by some petty invitation to invoke this “Fek”.

Old School Zero

Ooohhh, loogit mister fancy pants organic genius guy over here! Sir too good for store-bought dead kittens is in the house, let’s all genuflect!

scotchnaut

It’s very obvious to me that you’ve never eaten a freshly-picked dead kitten from a gluten-free dumpster in your entire life. I pity you.

Romonobyl

Hard to be this for fly-genocide:
http://bugasalt.com/

JerBear50

If I had $50 to blow I’d be a palmetto bug blasting son of a bitch.

Why Thank You Eddie

Summon Fek? I’ll call the priest.

SonOfSpam

Fruit flies are attracted to wine (who isn’t???), so leave a plastic cup out with a little wine in it, and in the morning you’ll have a gross cup full of dead/drunk fruit flies.

/resists urge to make winged Michael Sam joke

JerBear50

I use the same trick. If you put saran wrap over the top and poke a bunch of little holes, they can get in but can’t crawl back out.

Brick Meathook
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Scheduled maintenance? I’ll kill you! I’ll…

Oh, it’s back now. Yay!

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

You forgot the Espresso Yeti, which is my favorite Yeti, and possibly favorite stout.

http://www.theperfectlyhappyman.com/uploads/great-divide-espresso-oak-aged-yeti.jpg

My good friend made a home-brew that I would actually dare to put on par with said Espresso Yeti. I have one more sitting in my fridge, and you’re crazy if you think I’m going to share it with anyone so they can make that comparison.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

I’m not sure, but something tells me your breakfasts are substantially less Irish than mine.

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A -Bomb

They could make “gym sock” yeti, and I’d probably wanna try it. Sofa king good.

Spanky Datass

Yes, a thousand times yes.

I bought bombers of Oak Aged and Oatmeal last Saturday. Haven’t tried them yeti! (PUN!) Though I’ve enjoyed many (MANY!) Yetis in the past. I’ve become such a whore for barrel aged beers and silly sweet-tooth brews. Maybe I caught the ‘beetus from a dirty toilet seat?

jjfozz

Now, thanks to the shittiness of Facebook, I associate porters with this ultra-hippy dickbag who I recently unfriended because he felt it necessary to comment on my kids playing sports and how it was [insert whiny stinky hippy voice] “Not healthy and was proven to make kids violent.”

My response was far from PC. I may have referred to him as being a huge vagina. Maybe.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Was he someone you knew in real life? If so, you should have given your kid a secret instruction to kick him in the shins the next time you saw him. Then you could say “hey, you’re right!” and high-five your kid later.

Old School Zero

Are all those pictures from Dead shows?

Yeti definitely is a great beer. I got my hand on a Chocolate Oak Aged and that was fantastic. Definitely a must-buy.

Low Commander of the Super Soldiers

I had a Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti sitting in my aging fridge (yes, I have an aging fridge /adjusts douchebag glasses) that was there for over a year. I had it on Friday in celebration of the Padres FINALLY hitting for the Cycle. (WOOOOOOOOO!)

The year made the chocolate a little more bitter than I remembered it being previously, but was absolutely amazing.

Lothar of the Hill People

I’ll bet you had an aging fridge before they got popular, eh?

SonOfSpam

Hey, here’s a funny beer story. On Sunday my wife came back from the store with some beer for me (probably guilt-ridden from having many many affairs). She said, “It might be new, because I’ve never heard of it, but the guy at the store said it was great for a hot day.” You guessed it…it was a 4-pack of Allagash White. And of course, it was good, even though it lacked nutmeg.

montythisseemsstrangetome

You know it’s funny, because I had mentioned to your wife that I like Allagash White.

SonOfSpam

I’ve told her that I like all my gash white too.

blordinaryfagicmox

Next MMQB (Probably. I’ll never know without Fun With PK):
“Was at the store, advised some lady to try the Allagash. Said it was for her husbakd. Only in New York!”

scotchnaut

New York is amazing, isn’t it?

SonOfSpam

Went to NYC for the first time evar a few weeks ago. It WAS amazing, all the tall buildings and good food and subways and whatnot. However, while I was gone, KSK imploded. Therefore, I alone will always associate New York with horrible tragedy that no one else could possibly understand. Yep, 7/31 is a date that we’ll remember forever, unlike any other date on the calendar. Never forget.

scotchnaut

Given that Uproxx was responsible for that whole mess, are you going to start a war with Gawker?

SonOfSpam

I think the appropriate response would be to start a war with someone unrelated to 7/31. Let’s go with Upworthy. We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators!!!

SonOfSpam

Wait…Gawker are Uproxx ARE unrelated. Heh, I get jokes.

Old School Zero
scotchnaut

What are you-some sort of huge vaginahead?

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THE ATTACK ON KSK WAS AN INSIDE JOB.

Lothar of the Hill People

It’s got this park where you can run!

Moose -The End Is Well Nigh

She told me I was the only one; I didn’t believe because of the sleeveless hoodie she keeps.

makeitsnowondem

This is a great, great, great beer. That is all.

Old School Zero

That’s all? You’re sure?