Great Divide Brewing Company

Commercial Brewery | Denver, CO, United States of America

Vital Statistics

Beers

Overall average: 65 (logged 88 times)
Great Divide Barrel Aged Hibernation Ale
Old Ale (Aged in Barrels, Whiskey)
Great Divide Barrel Aged Old Ruffian Barley Wine Style Ale
Barleywine (Aged in Barrels, Whiskey)
Great Divide Barrel Aged Yeti Imperial Stout: 83 (logged 1 time)
Stout (Aged in Barrels, Whiskey)
Great Divide Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout: 78 (logged 17 times)
Stout (Imperial / Double, Aged on Wood Chips, Oak)
Great Divide Claymore Scotch Ale: 70 (logged 9 times)
Scotch Ale
Great Divide Colette Farmhouse Ale: 71 (logged 2 times)
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
Great Divide Denver Pale Ale
English Pale Ale / Bitter
Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout: 54 (logged 7 times)
Stout (Imperial / Double, Aged on Wood Chips, Oak)
Great Divide Fresh Hop Pale Ale: 75 (logged 1 time)
American Pale Ale (Wet Hop)
Great Divide Hades Belgian-Style Ale
Belgian Strong Pale Ale
Great Divide Hercules Double IPA: 75 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA (Imperial / Double)
Great Divide Hoss Oktoberfest Lager: 50 (logged 1 time)
Märzenbier / Oktoberfestbier
Great Divide Lasso IPA: 83 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Great Divide Nomad Pilsner: 58 (logged 1 time)
Czech Pilsner
Great Divide Oatmeal Yeti Imperial Stout: 72 (logged 8 times)
Stout (Imperial / Double)
Great Divide Orabelle Belgian-Style Ale: 75 (logged 1 time)
Belgian Tripel Ale
Great Divide Peach Grand Cru: 8 (logged 1 time)
Belgian Strong Dark Ale
Great Divide Rumble Oak Aged IPA: 66 (logged 8 times)
American India Pale Ale / IPA (Oak)
Great Divide Samurai Rice Ale: 67 (logged 2 times)
American Blonde Ale
Great Divide Showdown Rye IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Great Divide Smoked Baltic Porter
Baltic Porter (Smoked)
Great Divide Titan IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Great Divide Velvet Yeti: 67 (logged 1 time)
Stout
Great Divide Wolfgang Doppelbock: 58 (logged 2 times)
Doppelbock
Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout: 70 (logged 3 times)
Stout (Imperial / Double)

Limited Edition Single Releases

Great Divide 16th Anniversary Wood Aged Double IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA (Imperial / Double, Aged on Wood Chips, Oak)
Great Divide 17th Anniversary Wood Aged Double IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA (Imperial / Double, Aged on Wood Chips, Oak)
Great Divide 19th Anniversary Ale: 47 (logged 7 times)
American Strong Ale (Aged on Wood Chips, Birch)

Retired Beers

Great Divide Belgian Style Yeti Imperial Stout: 50 (logged 4 times)
Belgian Stout (Imperial / Double)
Great Divide Belgica Belgian-Style IPA
Belgian India Pale Ale / IPA

Logs for beers from this brewery

Not sweet, which is nice, works well with the spice profile. Issue here is that the finish is weirdly vegetal/woody, kind of like a chicory coffee, and bitter. Better after I got used to it but overall the tallboy can was a little too tall.
Can at Home
Definitely a strong one. Strong notes of cherry and wood, and the big bitter roasty backbone you'd expect from a Yeti. Liked it a lot.
Can at Home
Smells smoothly sweet but highly alcoholic. Pours with a thick, dark brown head. A profoundly roasty stout, true to the Yeti name, but smoothed out with buttery coconut and lactose. Slightly smoky. Gives you a bit of that burnt sugar headache but never quite crosses the line into too sweet.
Can at Home
Not nearly as successful as the peanut butter yeti. I want to say this was at once too sweet and too roasty, but I don't want you to think it was anywhere near as bad as the previous maple beer I logged. This was actually decent despite the imbalance of the flavors. The biggest problem is the size of the can - 19+ ounces is just... a lot of this beer to take.
Can at Home
Normally I find Yeti overbearing, and there've been a lot of good peanut butter stouts, but friends, this one might be the best one yet. Definitely not on the sweet side, this is a roast dark peanut butter beer with just the right intensity of flavor. It's hella strong but doesn't taste that way. Loved it.
Can at Home
Tasty. Dry, bitter like dark chocolate. Maybe hints of caramel, but there's no sweetness here.
Very hoppy, dry red with some caramel. Unpleasant.
Very sweet, boozy, young tasting. But in a charming way, if that makes any sense? It's not thick, it's got a bit of rye bite. A little too raw to truly love, but it was fun. Maybe in a couple years it could even be great (but it seems like it would still be a little too sweet).
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Interesting beer - Yetis have always been a little overwhelming for me, but on nitro it was very much toned down (as was the beer itself, I suppose, at only 5% ABV). Not being a sweet beer helped a lot, resisting the sickly-sweet nitro effect, leaving a kind of very smooth, woody chocolate flavor.
Nitro Draft
Light, effervescent, cereal beer with some mellow sweetness from the rice and some bright florality. Really nice.
From way back in the log. Can't remember anything, except thinking it lived up to memory.
Effervescent with a hint of fruit undertone, so clearly a "sour". But not really any sour in flavor. I'm fact, my description is pretty much at an end at this point .
A simple IPA, with subtle malt on the front, with a nice bitter grapefruit finish. Nicely done.
Can
Roasty cocoa smell, slightly tangy finish.
Draft
Not a fan of stouts in general, but this one is pretty decent. Definitely smell some chocolatey/toffee notes, with a bit of a coffee finish.
Bottle
Not as overpowering and boozy as normal yeti but just as flavorful. A bit of vanilla leads b/c of the oatmeal but otherwise just like it's big brother.
Bottle at Home
The aging softens the edge of the hop flavors (resin, pine, et cetera) making them far tastier. Finishes with a nice oakiness.
Bottle at Pool
Huge flavor: roasted malts, plenty of dark toffee and caramel and enough bitterness to make the finish mocha-like
Bottle at Home
Tasted more like an amber than a lager... only a slight hint of rye.
Bottle at Pool
Heavier malts and little carbonation gave this more of a pale ale mouth feel than a crips pilsner. Pils spice at the end and a lean toward minor bitterness, but flavors weren't on par with a world class pils (too subdued).
Bottle at Pool
Was it because I'd just had the coffee IPA? Or maybe my palate has just grown a lot since last time. I found this to be mellow, rich and chocolaty, with a lot of barrel character but not overwhelmingly so. Call me a new fan!
It's a cocoa chocolate versus a milk chocolate. Not as sweet and viscous I keep imaging it would be from the large "CHOCOLATE" text on the label. The imperial, more bitter, part of the stout probably has a part in this in addition to some of the oak-aging.
Coffee is a bit too aggressive here. Oatmeal yeti was better.
Slightly smoky with a carmel finish. This beer chased me down and slapped me around like a malty claymore. Ha!
Really good Pale. Nothing overpowers in this beer, but the fresh hop flavors really shine through and offer to those who tend to not like the overpowering hop flavor present in IPAs a way to enjoy the flavors in a more subtle package.
Bottle at Home
The balance is so precarious on this, between a grassy hoppiness and a malt that are not really in harmony, that the slightest change of mood could ruin it. When you're on, it's good, nice and nutty, but off can mean unpleasant bitterness with no mitigation. Today i was on the edge.
Bottle at Work
Oh, what a difference delivery makes, sometimes. No sour, sappy finish and a seemingly lighter birch profile make this more balanced & drinkable. Slightly sweet, floral, bourbony notes, with a clean finish.
Good as IPA go but am not a big fan.
Wet woodish smell. Simple cereal body not very complex. Narrow profile bitter that lingers briefly.
Fairly pine-woody scent, although not quite as pungent as some IPAs can get. Fruity roundness with a bitter bite that is strangely mellowed by the other-bitterness of the oak. Sometimes, two wrongs do make a right, I guess?
Refreshing but nothing out of the ordinary.
Cloudy and definitely Belgian to the nose, spicy to start, but with a very light, refreshing, citrus-punch-soda-like character afterwards. Finishes slightly dry, with tamarind-like acid, which I'm not sure was great, but served ice-cold, this was overall a very appealing beer.
Nice, complex, dry foretaste with caramel, malt and a faint hint of cherry but finishes with a vaporous, strongly alcoholic flavor that dominates my memory of the drink. Too out of balance for me.
I didn't taste anything Belgian about this. Tasted like basically every other Yeti -- not my favorite style of stout -- minus the wood chips, with a fair amount of hoppy character. I was hoping for something more interesting.
More like a sour stout than Belgian beer.
Sour smell. Tastes, somewhat sweet and raisin-like. Sour aftertaste.
Smells like tart wood, gets smokier when warmed up. Sweeter than I was expecting, leaves some syrupy tackiness.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Roasty smell. Slightly sour fore taste. Somewhat syrupy and residual. Sour fruit taste?
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Sweet, roasty, dried-fruit smell & flavor, with some chocolate notes in the mix. Smooth but robust. Kind of glad not to get the huge hit of Oak I normally associate with Yeti.
The stout Willy Wonka would have brewed.
Bottle at Home
Bitter and woody, and I'm not really a coffee fan by nature. Some other day this would probably rate higher.
Too woodsy for me with aggressive coffee aftertaste.
Smells good, but the base beer isn't strong enough to balance the extreme woodiness. It's completely overwhelmed.
Starts off corn like but then bitterness appears and distracts.
Very nutty, like Rogue hazelnut brown ale.